Having launched its GSM services in the mobile telephony market of Mumbai metro a year ago, IDEA Cellular today announced the lowest tariff for mobile users in the city, offering all STD and Local calls and SMS rates at just 50 paisa per minute, on any mobile or landline network in India. The special call rate of 50 paisa for STD and Local calls on any network in India will... Read More
Competition in the Indian telecom market is really heating up. A few days ago Airtel announced a scheme which offers its users Airtel to Airtel Local & STD calls @ 50paisa per min. To counter that, Vodafone Essar -the leading GSM mobile service operator- has come up with an offer that is one step ahead. Vodafone Essar is now offering Local and STD calls (as well as all SMSs) to... Read More
MTS India, the CDMA Mobile service of Sistema Shyam TeleServices Ltd (SSTL), today announced that it has reached a base of 2 million subscribers. According to a latest reports on Indian Telecommunications, MTS India also became the fastest growing Indian telecom service provider (wireless and wireline) with a month-on-month growth rate of 16.8% in August 2009. In fact, MTS India was the only telecom brand to have registered a double-digit... Read More
It seems that Reliance Communication has finally accepted competition and today come up with an innovative STD Pack for its GSM subscribers of Delhi and NCR. Now one can make STD calls at 39 paisa per minute to any network across India without any daily rental on their Reliance Mobile. To avail this offer, one has to recharge with Rs. 39 recharge voucher which will provide 100-STD minutes valid for... Read More
India’s 2nd largest mobile operator Vodafone brings good news for its cricket fans with a significant reduction in Voice, SMS, and GPRS rates for its customers traveling to South Africa during the ICC Champion’s Trophy 2009 tournament. Vodafone Essar is offering these special rates in partnership with Vodacom, a leading South African mobile services provider and part of the Vodafone Group. Vodafone Essar’s GSM Mobile customers can select Vodacom as... Read More
The Department of Telecommunications (DOT) has allotted 80 and 81 mobile series for Reliance Mobile. According to Reliance Communications, 8088 series is alloted for Karnataka, 8099 for Andhra Pradesh, 8100 for Kolkata, 8110 for West Bengal, 8102 for Bihar, 8103 for Madhya Pradesh circle. The new number series beginning with 80 and 81 will be available for Reliance GSM mobile service in all the above respective telecom circles. Hitherto, the... Read More
In an endeavor to improve customer satisfaction and serve better, India’s largest Broadband service provider Bharat Sanchar Nigam Limited (BSNL) has come up with a new service - one more value addition in the form of “Know Your Broadband” that will enable their Broadband subscribers to check their data account usage details just by one SMS. “In our endeavor towards customer delight and to keep continuous contact with customers, we... Read More
Onze Technologies India Pvt Ltd today announced the launch of location search and driving directions service in the easy to use SMS platform, wherein people can search where a place is located, as well as how to get there from any other part of Bangalore. 90088 90088 is an SMS-based location search and direction finding service that provides directions to people with or without Smartphones to any location in Bangalore.... Read More
Reliance CDMA today announced the launch of "Indrajalam Pack" FRC 146 for its CDMA prepaid subscribers in Andhra Pradesh. Indrajalam Pack FRC 146 will offer talktime of Rs 150 (Rs. 50 per month for 3 months) which will allow subscribers to call all local Reliance to Reliance calls at 10 paisa per min, 50 Paisa to other local calls for 90 days. This product will provide a variety of benefits... Read More
The Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (TRAI) has today announced that Mobile Number Portability (MNP) will initially start in the country with metros and category ‘A’ circles from 31st December 2009 and the rest of the country by 20 March 2010. TRAI also issued new guidelines and regulations on Mobile Number Portability. MNP allows subscribers to retain their existing mobile telephone number when they move from one Access Provider to... Read More
Unitech Wireless, a telecom venture of the realty major Unitech Group and Norway’s telecom operator Telenor, has announced that its upcoming GSM Mobile service will be named UNINOR. The company holds a pan-India UAS license to offer mobile telephony services in each of India’s 22 circles. It has also received spectrum to roll out these services in 21 of the 22 circles and intends to roll out its services in... Read More
Mr Sunil Prabhakar has become the first Indian to create a World Record of "Longest Phone Conversation" by speaking non- stop for 51 hours. He has successfully broken the World record held by Tony Wright of UK, which was created in September 2007. Sunil Prabhakar of Kailash Hills New Delhi broke the existing 40 hour record of "longest phone call" held by Tony Wright by speaking continuously for more than... Read More
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