The Data domain has been a significant contributor in the telecom sector and to enhance the same and reduce the customers concern of the charging of the GPRS usage through Dive in APN is taken into view by the Tata Docomo.
The fastest growing Telecom giant Tata Docomo has done some changes in its Default homepage. Browsing on Dive In [Dive In Portal and 3rd Party links thru Dive access point shall be charged at 10p/10Kb. But GPRS pack users shall be eligible to use their Data pools for Dive In browsing.
Dive In browsing, has till date been free; thus allowing subscribers to browse WAP Pages [Dive In Portal and 3rd party WAP links] were free of charge. The only charge that was levied was for the actual content that a subscriber would download and only for downloading a chargeable content he will be charged.
The browsing tariff of 10p/10Kb on both on Home and Roaming Networks shall be applicable on all Dive In pages (inclusive of Home Page) and 3rd Party off links. Dive In (2G WAP/3G life portal) and other 3rd Party WAP Links shall be charged @ 10p/10Kb for all subscribers Who are Above 6 months AON and New subscriber’s activating after Jun 16, 2011. Tata Docomo still offers the lowest WAP service charges across all operators.
Operator | Internet Browsing | Effective Rate/MB |
Tata DOCOMO | 10 p/10 Kb | Rs. 10.24 |
Airtel | 30p/20 Kb | Rs. 15.36 |
Vodafone | 10 p/10 Kb | Rs. 10.24 |
Aircel | 10p/ 10 Kb (2G) | Rs. 10.24 (2G) |
3p/ 10 Kb (3G) | Rs. 3.07 (3G) | |
Idea | 2p/1Kb | Rs. 20.48 |