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About the author: The person behind Mobile Operator code, former telecom specialist.

Duane August 3rd, 2009 5:50 PM 16 COMMENTS

AIRTEL TO OFFER SUBSCRIPTION ALERTS ON EASY RECHARGE

Bharti Airtel Ltd, India's leading mobile service provider today announced the launch of subscription alert service for customers across Kolkata and Rest of West Bengal circles. To avail SUBSCRIPTION ALERTS instead of having to maintain the required balance, then send a keyword to various numbers to get the service activated, now all the customer has to do is recharge with RC24 and the service gets activated! Benefits and Salient features... Read More

Duane August 3rd, 2009 12:59 PM 7 COMMENTS

AIRTEL LAUNCHES “GAMESCLUB”-NEW CONCEPT IN MOBILE GAMING

Bharti Airtel Ltd, India's leading mobile service provider, has launched "GAMES CLUB" on its Airtel Live WAP portal. With this service, mobile customers can now get the best of Mobile Games at never seen prices. Benefits and Salient features of Gamesclub: Download as many games as you want from the wide selection. Enjoy gaming at as low as Rs. 5 a day. Enjoy features like pay per day on the... Read More

Duane July 29th, 2009 6:38 PM 13 COMMENTS

MNP MORE FAVOURABLE TO POSTPAID USERS WITH HEAVY USAGE

MNP (Mobile Number Portability), the long awaited service which allows mobile users to shift from one operator to another, may soon be here. While MNP is good news for the end user, it may be far from so for mobile operators! A recent survey conducted by THE NIELSEN COMPANY to determine customer attitude towards MNO shows the following - Almost one fifth (18%) of Indian mobile phone subscribers would change... Read More

Duane July 29th, 2009 5:13 PM 15 COMMENTS

AIRTEL LAUNCHES CAMPUS PACK CHEAP CALLS FROM 3RD MINUTE ONWARDS

Bharti Airtel, India's largest GSM service provider, has launched a new offer for its customers in Kolkata and Rest of West Bengal circles. Dubbed "CAMPUS PACK" customers need to recharge with RC65 and avail cheaper calls from the 3rd minute of the day. Unlike some operators where the call needs to be longer than 2 minutes, here the customer has a "limit" (2 min Local A2A, 2 min A2O, 2... Read More

Duane July 28th, 2009 3:02 PM 9 COMMENTS

BHARTI AIRTEL CROSSES 1 MILLION MARK IN SRI LANKA

Bharti Airtel Limited, a subsidiary of Bharti Airtel, Asia’s leading integrated telecom services provider today announced that it had crossed the 1 million customers mark in Sri Lanka. Having achieved this remarkable milestone within six months of launch of its services in Sri Lanka, Bharti Airtel Lanka is now the fastest growing mobile services operator in the country. 1 million Sri Lankans now say ‘hello’ with Airtel. Airtel crosses the... Read More

Duane July 27th, 2009 1:56 PM 3 COMMENTS

MOBILE COS ANNOUNCE PROFITS FOR QUARTER 1

Its clear from the Quarter 1 results of leading Mobile companies that there has been little, even nil, impact of the economic slowdown on mobile phone companies. Lets have a look at three companies profits for the period April - June 2009. BHARTI AIRTEL LTD: Customer base increased by 8.55 million to close at 105.20 million customers - the highest ever-net addition in a single quarter. Remains the market leader with a market... Read More

Duane July 25th, 2009 9:38 AM 3 COMMENTS

RBI RULE TO IMPACT ONLINE MOBILE RECHARGES AND BILL PAYMENTS

The Reserve Bank Of India (RBI) has taken note of the fact that credit card users still continue to fall prey to online fraud every day. In order to control online this fraud, it has introduced a new step whenever an online transaction is done. * 16 Digit Credit Card Number * Credit Card Expiry Date * 3-digit CVV number * NEW: Card to be enrolled with VERIFIED BY VISA... Read More

Duane July 21st, 2009 2:12 PM 23 COMMENTS

AIRTEL SPECIAL FIVE LOCAL 20P,STD 50P POSTPAID DETAILS

Bharti Airtel India’s largest GSM Mobile service provider today unveiled SPECIAL FIVE scheme for its postpaid subscribers a new concept which offers very low calling rates for 5 SPECIAL AIRTEL POSTPAID NUMBERS of one’s choice. POSTPAID SCHEME DETAILS: Unlike in Prepaid where the customer can avail his existing plan and select 5 numbers of his/her choice and continue to enjoy the existing sms/call topping. In Postpaid the rate plan (more…) Read More

Duane July 21st, 2009 2:56 AM 45 COMMENTS

AIRTEL SPECIAL FIVE LOCAL 20P,STD 50P

Bharti Airtel, India's largest GSM Mobile service provider unveiled "SPECIAL FIVE" a new concept which offers very low calling rates for 5 SPECIAL AIRTEL NUMBERS of one's choice. While this may at first glance may seem similar to the "Friends & Family" offers that some operators (including Airtel in select circles) offers, it is a 1st of its kind as it allows both Local & STD numbers to be added,... Read More

Duane July 17th, 2009 12:12 AM 17 COMMENTS

TATA DOCOMO LAUNCHES GSM SERVICE IN ANDHRAPRADESH

TATA DOCOMO, the GSM brand of Tata Teleservices Limited, today announced the commercial launch of its operations in Andhra Pradesh, just a few days after it announced its launch in Tamil Nadu, Kerala, Orissa and Karnataka announcing the launch, TTSL Managing Director Anil Sardana announcing a novel “Pay-for-what-you-use” model, with a pulse of one second, and a pricing of 1 paisa per second. TATA DOCOMO’s pan-India service roll out will... Read More

Duane July 16th, 2009 5:22 PM 15 COMMENTS

AIRTEL MCHECK SERVICE NOW ON VOICE!

Bharti Airtel, India's largest GSM service provider, has taken its award winning MCHECK application a step further - the service is now available Voice! Previously if a customer wanted to use the MHECK service he/she needed to SMS "AIRTEL" to 543219, after which a URL would be sent to the phone. In case the handset did not support the application, then the MCHECK registration & usage would not be possible.... Read More

Duane July 16th, 2009 3:48 PM 1 COMMENTS

TATA INDICOM EXTENDS DATA ROAMING TO 160 COUNTRIES & 400 AIRPORTS

Tata Teleservices Limited, India’s fastest growing pan India telecom service provider, today announced the launch of Global Data Roaming in association with Tata Communications. Tata Communications has extended its global data roaming services to mobile customers through Cyberpass. Customers can now avail data roaming connectivity with a single login internet access across 160 countries on Tata Indicom. A first of its kind, the data roaming service will be available to... Read More