Bad news for frequent travelers who are on Tata's GSM or CDMA mobile services. Tata Docomo has decided NOT to extend its most popular Roaming Vouchers STV 47 / RC 46 which provides free incoming calls to its prepaid customers (GSM and CDMA) while on National Roaming. As shared on May 9th, 2012, Tata Docomo was the second GSM operator after BSNL to offer its FREE Incoming calls facility while... Read More
India's National Telecom backbone and Pan India 3G Mobile service operator Bharat Sanchar Nigam Ltd (BSNL) has said that the Government’s decision to fix the Reserve price for for GSM spectrum auction at Rs 14,000 crore would not not have major impact on BSNL in the immediate future. Mr. R.K. Upadhyay, Chairman and Managing Director, BSNL, said that BSNL was striving to ensure quality and affordable mobile, basic telecom and... Read More
Uninor the joint venture of Unitech and Norway telecom major Telenor whose mobile service licenses has been canceled by the Supreme Court under 2G verdict, has started its 'Operation Shut Down' in four telecom circles - Tamil Nadu, Kerala, Karnataka and Orissa. Our exclusive sources confirms that Uninor will soon ask its users in these circles to port out their mobile number to another operator using Mobile Number Portability (MNP)... Read More
Ever confused how are you switched between 2G & 3G Networks when on different data plans? Sometimes even though a 2G data pack is activated you may be charged for switching between 2G & 3G. This tabular form clearly explains how you will be connected with data on different networks in AP Circle. (more…) Read More
We have been getting reports from our esteemed readers and also from twitter users that since today afternoon Uninor Mobile service/ network is completely down in many circles across India and there is No sign of network till now as we report. When we checked with our internal sources we came to know that there has been some fire incident/major technical issue at Uninor's data center and Uninor HLR (Home... Read More
Calcutta Telephones aka Bharat Sanchar Nigam Limited (BSNL) has rationalizes its most popular Kolkata 5 paisa Plan (Kolkata@5p) by revising the own and off net local and STD call charges under the plan making it more attractive and affordable. Unlike in the previous plan, now call charges to West Bengal BSNL Mobile numbers (WBTC) would also be charged at 5 paisa/min as earlier the facility was just for Kolkata's BSNL Mobile... Read More
Good news for Mobile, Landline and Broadband customers who are facing tough time dealing with complaints, TRAI has made the process much simpler now you dont need to knock nodal officers door for any complain related issue. Previously one has to call Customer Care / Call Center (CC) to register a complain and if not resolved then one has to approach the Nodal officer then again with Applet and the... Read More
Value Added Services aka services other than voice services are a huge market potential for all mobile operators. This time we got lucky to get a chance to have a Q-A session with Sukesh Jain, Head, VAS & Content, Bharti Airtel - India's largest mobile operator. He discussed the focus of Airtel on VAS, its pricing, 3G VAS, m-Commerce and other related stuffs and gave his thoughtful comments. TT: Earlier... Read More
The government has set a reserve price of Rs 14,000 crore for the proposed auction of the 2G spectrum, which is at the lower end of the band recommended by the group of ministers on telecom, much lower than the price set by telecom regulator. The Union Cabinet also approved a levy of 3-8 percent on different slabs as annual spectrum usage charges, which was in line with recommendations of... Read More
Vodafone, in a letter to DoT and the Empowered Group of Ministers, has pointed out that the TDSAT Order dated 01.08.12 in Petition No. 461 of 2012 is a re-confirmation that its licenses and spectrum are already technology neutral. It was submitted that this was evident from the fact that the Tribunal whilst narrating the facts has recorded that “The basic facts of the matter is not in dispute.” and whilst... Read More
Real estate firm Unitech, the Indian joint venture partner in telecom operator Uninor Wireless, has approached the Company Law Board (CLB) seeking a restraining order on the possible auctioning or sale in the joint venture firm. The move follows Norway’s Telenor, the foreign partner in Uninor Wireless, planning to sell off it stake in the business, after it received approvals from the majority of the board members. It also invited... Read More
Airtel today announced the launch of its new innovative 60 days 60 deals offer for customers buying Airtel prepaid mobile connections during August 2012. With this limited period offer, prepaid mobile customers joining Airtel network in the month of August 2012 will enjoy back-to-back excitement with a fresh daily deal for a period of 60 days. The deals offered as part of this scheme will span across services including SMS,... Read More
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