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June 15th, 2010 11:08 AM 38 COMMENTS

Aircel Introduces New Special Tariff Vouchers In West Bengal

Aircel, India’s 5th largest GSM player recently launched some new value vouchers in West Bengal. These voucher comes in different denomination, start from Rs.4 to Rs.900. And each of these are for different different aspects. In this wide range, some vouchers allow customer to cut down theirs call rate and some of these provides bulk talk times. Surprisingly first time Aircel launches some high-cost local bulk mins pack like never... Read More

June 12th, 2010 12:22 PM 22 COMMENTS

Low Cost Handset Dominates The Indian Rural Market

MediaTek India, a well known semiconductor company has recently carried out a survey with shopkeepers and mobile phone users to gauge the latest trends in this space. The study reveals that India is still a low cost phone destination. About 50% of the users interviewed still tend to buy a handset in the Rs.1500 – Rs. 2000 range with basic functionalities. This is similar to an earlier survey carried out... Read More

June 10th, 2010 5:55 PM 5 COMMENTS

Bsnl Introduces New Sms Vouchers In West Bengal

India’s biggest state run telecommunication company, Bharat Sanchar Nigam Limited (BSNL) recently launched 2 new SMS voucher and a Local ON-Net voucher for the customer of West Bengal Telecom Circle (WBTC). The 2 new SMS vouchers come with a denomination of Rs.20 and Rs.31 respectively. The first voucher will allow a customer to send 2000 Local SMS absolutely free for a period of 30days from the date of recharge after... Read More

June 9th, 2010 11:27 AM 33 COMMENTS

Vodafone Launches 2 New GPRS Packs In West Bengal

India's 2nd biggest GSM telecom giant recently launched 2 new unlimited GPRS voucher for its West Bengal (except Kolkata) circle customer. These two GPRS vouchers come with a denomination of Rs.18 and Rs.23 respectively. The Rs.18 voucher comes with a validity of 3 days, more distinctly 72 hours from the time of recharge and this voucher will allow a customer to surf unlimited Vodafone Live on his/her mobile without any... Read More

May 26th, 2010 3:35 PM 5 COMMENTS

LTE- A Gateway To The Next Generation

Adrian Scrase, Head of 3GPP Mobile Competence Centre shares his view on LTE India Event On 28th May 2010 in New Delhi and at LTE workshop on the 1st June 2010 in Chennai  a event will be held to encourage Regulators, Operators and Manufacturers to be a part of LTE - The most successful mobile broadband Standard. We will demonstrate that this is not just a new radio technology; there... Read More

May 17th, 2010 5:50 PM 60 COMMENTS

Comment & Win Mobiwatchman Mobile Application Every Week!

Today is World Telecom Day, Over the last 19 months TelecomTalk has been growing each month, and that's because of you, our lovely interactive readers. That's why we want to give you something back. So we thought to giveaway 15 Mobiwatchman Mobile Applications FREE worth Rs.199 each, every week for the Best Commenter a good way to repay you for your loyalty. The Mobiwatchman is first of its kind mobile... Read More

April 25th, 2010 7:10 PM 0 COMMENTS

Choosing Mobile Marketing Technology Is Not An Operational Decision

Pravin Vijay Director - Product Marketing, Flytxt shares his view on mobile marketing technology according to him, choosing the right mobile marketing technology is a strategic decision as it has a direct impact on revenue generation and customer experience. For mobile operators it takes several years and lot of hard work and investment to attract and acquire their customers. Some mobile operators in the emerging economies still have steep subscriber... Read More

April 25th, 2010 3:51 PM 22 COMMENTS

Find Lost Stolen Blackberry

What if I lose my blackberry? Heard a lot in forums, blogs in fact everywhere that I lost my blackberry, it’s stolen; I forgot it in coffee shop. Thought to publish something useful and helping for my readers, and got successful in finding a real app even for my own phone that got saved till I am interested in using. Black Berry is quiet popular among every range, either it’s... Read More

April 9th, 2010 12:49 PM 20 COMMENTS

India –3G Auction Arrives Finally

After being postponed several times in the last two years, the long-awaited 3G & Broadband Wireless Access (BWA) spectrum auction is finally happening today. While commercial usage is only permitted from September 2010 onwards, a successful auction should lay the groundwork for faster internet connectivity and data transfer on mobile phones, boosting usage of data services in the cellular market. While the purpose of the auction was to facilitate the... Read More

March 31st, 2010 2:51 PM 13 COMMENTS

Now Enjoy Listening To Pretones On Idea Cellular

IDEA Cellular the pan India integrated GSM operator, has become the first operator to launch a first-of-its-kind Value Added Service titled ‘PreTones’  in partnership with Oorja Mobile Services. Idea subscribers can access this unique service by simply dialling 55955 from their mobile phone, for Re. 1 per day. The content is live and available for all prepaid Idea subscribers in Andhra Pradesh. PreTones’ users can register their preferences on the... Read More

March 31st, 2010 1:18 PM 4 COMMENTS

Top Mobile Marketing Challenges For Mobile Operators

Thomas Schuster Co-founder and Sr. Vice President Product and Technology, Flytxt talks about the top ten challenges faced by mobile operators and alludes to the need of a third generation technology that will enable operators maximise their ROI on mobile marketing. Flytxt, for over a decade, has run several mobile marketing campaigns, and has been providing a technology platform solution for the Operators.Through these years, we have closely understood and... Read More

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