November 15th, 2009 1:25 AM 21 COMMENTS

Idea Kolkata Brings Onnet Tariff Packs

Aditya Birla promoted Idea Cellular, latest entrant in Kolkata wireless market introduces onnet tariff packs - for calling local Idea numbers at a lower price. Idea entered Kolkata as 11th mobile operator after Vodafone, Airtel, BSNL, Reliance CDMA, Tata Indicom, Reliance GSM, Aircel, Virgin Mobile, MTS India and Tata DoCoMo. So to capture new customers Idea has to offer more compared to others, and they do accordingly, apart from industry's... Read More

November 5th, 2009 6:03 PM 21 COMMENTS

Aircel Gets Three Awards At World Brand Congress 2009

AIRCEL India's fifth largest GSM mobile service Operator was honored at the World Brand Congress 2009 with three awards, Brand Leadership in Telecom, Marketing Campaign & Marketing Professional of the Year. Mr. Gurdeep Singh, COO, Aircel received the award and commented, “We really feel honored to have been chosen for the Global awards for Brand excellence 2009 and thank the respected jury for this recognition. These awards mean a lot... Read More

November 4th, 2009 5:11 PM 12 COMMENTS

Mobile Numbers Starting With 88 Launched

Its been less than 2 months since Telecom Talk shared the launch of "8" Series Mobile nos.. on Sep 8 the story MOBILE NUMBERS STARTING WITH “8? LAUNCHED! was shared. Since then the DoT announced the 2nd series (81) on Sep 20 -  MOBILE NUMBERS STARTING WITH 81 LAUNCHED. Now we share the news of Mobile Numbers Starting with "88" (more…) Read More

November 3rd, 2009 10:33 AM 26 COMMENTS

Tata DOCOMO in Jharkhand

On the line of 'Do-The-New' TATA DOCOMO, the GSM mobile service brand of Tata Teleservices Limited, announced the commercial launch of its operations in Jharkhand , hot on the heels of its launch in Tamil Nadu, Kerala, Orissa, Karnataka, Andhra Pradesh, Madhya Pradesh-Chhattisgarh, Haryana, Kolkata, Mumbai and the rest of Maharashtra circles. The company’s GSM Mobile service started in the Jharkhand as the 11th Circle to go live on the... Read More

November 1st, 2009 12:24 PM 102 COMMENTS

Vodafone Joins the Tariff War, Introduces Pay Per Second plan Across India

Finally India's leading telecom operator VODAFONE joins the bandwagon of Pay Per Second billing and announced Nation Wide  launch of PAY PER SECOND Tariff for its GSM prepaid customers across India (accept 2 circle) dubbed as "Conversations @ 1p/sec". With this plan Vodafone subscriber can make V2V local or STD at just 1p/ Sec. and for Other Network Local and STD calls will be charged at 1.2p/sec. The above plan... Read More

October 31st, 2009 12:50 PM 115 COMMENTS

Airtel Pay Per Second Plan In Details

Bharti Airtel yesterday announced the launch of  Pay Per Second Tariff for its perpaid customers across India dubbed as 'Freedom Plan' .With this plan Airtel subscriber can Call any Airtel number anywhere in the country, local or STD at just 1p/ Sec and enjoy the advantage of being on Airtel. Now "Pay Per Second plan is available for all Existing & New Prepaid customers across India. According to the Airtel,... Read More

October 30th, 2009 5:45 PM 32 COMMENTS

AIRCEL Introduces Pay Per Second Tariff India Wide

AIRCEL India's fifth largest GSM Mobile service operator, today announced the launch of the "PAY PER SECOND" plan on pan India besiss for its GSM Preapaid service customers in all telecom circle across India. Aircel offers the scheme, after the recent successful launch of “PAY PER SECOND CALLING PLAN” by Aircel in 12 circle Kolkata, Karnataka, Orissa, Tamil Nadu & Chennai, Uttar Pradesh East & West, Andhra Pradesh, Delhi, Bihar-Jharkhand... Read More

October 30th, 2009 10:21 AM 11 COMMENTS

AIRCEL Launches PAY PER SECOND Tariff in Mumbai

AIRCEL India's fifth largest GSM Mobile service operator, today announced the launch of the "PAY PER SECOND" plan for its GSM Preapaid service customers in Mumbai telecom circle without any extra cost. This is the 12th telecom circle circle wherein Aircel offers the scheme, after the recent successful launch of “PAY PER SECOND CALLING PLAN” by Aircel in Kolkata, Karnataka, Orissa, Tamil Nadu & Chennai, Uttar Pradesh East & West,... Read More

October 17th, 2009 1:59 PM 9 COMMENTS

BSNL Offers 100 Free SMS On New Prepaid

India’s leading telecom service provider Bharat Sanchar Nigam Ltd (BSNL) privileges its New prepaid customers in Maharashtra & Goa with FREE Gift of 100 SMS. BSNL today announced that 100 FREE SMS to any network will be provided as a welcome gift to all new customers of the BSNL prepaid mobile service. The 100 FREE SMS will be credited in account of new prepaid sim cards which will activate during... Read More

October 17th, 2009 1:49 AM 9 COMMENTS

September 2009 Sees 9.01 Million New GSM Subscribers Added

Cellular Operators Association of India (COAI) recently shared the GSM base figures for September 2009 and it comes as no surprise to see that GSM Subscriber growth has slowed down even further... the healthy growth of 10.8 million subscribers (March 2009) is a thing of the past and recent numbers of 9.89 million, 9.74 million and 9.01 million have been haunting Telecom analysts since July, August and September, respectively. While... Read More

October 13th, 2009 3:26 PM 4 COMMENTS

HTC Touch2 in India on Reliance Mobile

HTC today announced the launch of its HTC Touch2 handset in India for Reliance Mobile's  GSM subscribers. Reliance Communication is the first telecom operator to offer HTC Touch2 handset in India. As an introductory offer HTC Touch2 comes with a special  Free Data Usage of 200 MB per month for Reliance GSM Mobile customers. The new HTC Touch2 is compact and stylish smartphone with Microsoft’s new Windows Mobile 6.5 platform.... Read More

October 13th, 2009 1:31 PM 38 COMMENTS

Fourth Take On Indian Telecom Industry –THE PRICE WAR

Telecom Price war like never-ever before, what exactly do you call a situation where you are about to dine and having 52 dishes ready in your buffet and you are thinking of what to eat and what to leave. Our Indian telecom market is about to set in this connotation I guess if one tries to remember which were the plans offered by any particular operator within a span of... Read More

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