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India’s National telecom backbone and one of the leading GSM Mobile service operator Bharat Sanchar Nigam Ltd (BSNL) has launched four new Unlimited Local and STD Call plans starts from just Rs.21 and Fully Unlimited GPRS Pack at Rs.8 for its prepaid mobile service subscribers in Kolkata telecom circle.

BSNL prepaid subscribers in Kolkata circle can opt the Fully Unlimited Own Network local call plan by paying Rs.21 per for 1 Day. While Unlimited Local and STD Call (BSNL2BSNL) plan cost Rs.28 for one day.

The new Fully Unlimited GPRS/Internet comes at Rs.8 per for 1 Day access. The Unlimited GPRS pack will works on Mobile Phone as well as browsing through PC or Laptop.

Loop Mobile, today launched another innovative, path breaking and an affordable tariff plan for Mumbaikars which is dubbed as “SMART PAID”.

With Smart paid you get, FREE Local / STD minutes, FREE SMS, FREE 2GB Mobile Internet, FREE Voice-mail and FREE Missed Call Alerts all in One Plan.

This offer is available for both New as well as Existing subscribers.

After several years of endless wait for Dual Sim (GSM+GSM) phone from Nokia, Finally, the world leading mobile phone maker join the bandwagon of Dual SIM mobile phones and introduced 2 low-cost dual Sim phone C1 and C2 that supports Dual-SIM and Dual Sim with dual standby respectively.

At a media conference held today in the Kenyan capital Nairobi, Nokia unveiled its First dual-Sim C1 (C1-00) mobile phone a 2-in-1 double SIM solution which has a dedicated button to switch between SIM cards by simply holding down a key.

The Nokia dual-Sim Phone C2 also comes with FM radio and music player, with a massive amount of music storage with the phone supporting micro-SD cards of up to 32GB.The handset offers a wide range of information covering health-care, agriculture, education and entertainment via Nokia’s Ovi Life Tools, as well as the email account of its own Ovi Mail.

Caller Ring back tones (RBT), or caller tunes, have come a long way from being a novelty in the earlier part of the decade to comprising around 30 per cent of Value-Added Service (VAS) revenue for Indian telecom operators today.

In fact, OnMobile, India’s leading VAS player, witnessed over 250 million song downloads from its RBT platform in 2009, a 55 per cent increase year-on-year.This is indicative of the tremendous potential of RBT in generating revenue for operators, in the face of falling ARPUs and the need to increase consumer stickiness.

Additionally, there is still a lot of potential for innovation in this particular segment.Taking this proposition in mind On Mobile wants to leverage the social networking with RBT thus combining both the platforms generally opted by users to express themselves, ring back tones can be integrated with social networking, allowing users to not just share musical preferences but also update their closest circle on their moods and thoughts. OnMobile’s “Social RBT” addresses this requirement.

In a bid to provide High Speed Broadband services at affordable price pont, India National Telecom backbone and largest Broadband service provider Bharat Sanchar Nigam Ltd (BSNL) today once again announced free Up-gradation of Broadband Speed for certain Home and Unlimited combo plans at free of cost.

Keeping plan charges same; BSNL increased or just doubled the existing broadband speed for selected plans forever. Earlier in March-2010 the Speed Up-gradation offer was for a limited period but this time its applicable for permanent or till the next announcement if any further up-gradation.

Now subscribers of BSNL BroadBand Home UL 750 and BroadBand Home Combo UL 750 users will be eligible for the 512 Kbps instead of its earlier speed of 256kbps, while the BroadBand Home Combo ULF 1350 users will get 2 Mbps speed up to 15 GB, beyond 15 GB the speed will be 512Kbps.

Tata Docomo, India’s fastest growing GSM mobile service provider has announced the launch of “MY REWARD” for its Prepaid and Postpaid customers in Andhra Pradesh circle. Tata Docomo was recognized for its “fairness to customers” at the recent Telecom Asia Awards 2010 and is rewarding its customers for the same.

The award has been given to Tata Docomo for “all the things (it) didnt do”

*Docomo did not overcharge (Pay Per Second),

*Docomo did not put restrictions(Unlimited Local/STD Friends possible with BUDDYNET offering without restricting to 5 Local Friends and Family numbers)

*Docomo did not decide for the customer (same 1/sec tariffs applicable on Docomo & non-Docomo network calls as well as local/std/roaming calls)

Under the latest offer, Tata Docomo is celebrating by offerings its customers

Uninor the latest entrant in the Indian Telecom space which launched their service yesterday in 5 telecom circles namely Kolkata, West Bengal, Gujarat, Mumbai and Maharashtra & Goa seems that in course of quick launch they actually overlooked something very important that might create confusion getting new customers.

Here’s the lag and this message goes specially to the Uninor guys. Guys if you are checking this out do correct out the mistake as soon as possible.

In the website uninor.com a customer in order to get a new connection can follow the simple steps to get a new uninor SIM card. http://www.uninor.in/GetUninor/Pages/Instructions.aspx – this link helps one to get all the necessary details regarding the verification process of the customer.

In a bid to beat the BlackBerry’s monopoly over Email and IM services, Worlds leading mobile phone maker Nokia is gearing up for a new era in mobile messaging.

Nokia has come up with a new Mobile Chat application under its Nokia Messaging Service (NMS) to offer new Instant messaging (IM) and Social Networking Services for its handset users.

This new client is designed and available for Nokia E55, E63, E71 E72, E75, Nokia N97, Nokia N97 mini and Nokia 5630 Xpress Music, Nokia 5730 Xpress Music, Nokia 6730 Classic, Nokia 6720 Classic, Nokia 6760 Slide, Nokia 6790 Slide/Surge and Nokia N86 8MP.

The new Chat Client for N97 and N97 mini has come up with feedback focused on an efficient user experience.

Want to get BSNL Data Card free? All you need to do is subscribe to certain 3G Data Plans for a particular period. Here are the details.

You can get free BSNL Data Card by subscribing to
2GB Plan for 15 months
10GB Plan for 10 months
Unlimited Plan for 4 months.

Nokia today unveiled its latest Cseries mobiles (Nokia C1-00, C1-01, C1-02 and Nokia C2) at a media conference held today in the Kenyan capital Nairobi. The most affordable of the Nokia C1 trio (C1-00) is priced at EUR 30 (INR 1700 approx) before taxes and subsidies and is the first Nokia mobile phone to feature a 2-in-1 double SIM solution. It is a dual SIM mobile phone but not dual standby which mean only one SIM will work at a time. Users can switch between the SIM cards by holding down a key.

The second and third devices in the Nokia C1 family (C1-01 and C1-02) are both single SIM products, Both the phones store up to 32 GB of microSD card. Nokia C1-01 will be available in Dark Grey, Warm Grey, Red and Midnight Blue colors at a price of EUR 39 (INR 2200 approx). Nokia C1-02 will be available in Black, Dark Plum, Blue and Cool Grey colors at a price of EUR 35 (INR 2000 approx).

Nokia today unveiled its first Dual SIM mobile - Nokia C2. The Nokia C2 can also keep both SIM cards active due to which calls and text messages can come to either number while the phone is on. The first SIM card on the Nokia C2 sits underneath the battery and the second is ‘hot-swappable’, a feature unique to Nokia which means it can be removed and inserted when the phone is on.

The Nokia C2 offers a wide range of information covering healthcare, agriculture, education and entertainment via Nokia’s Ovi Life Tools, as well as the email account for the developing world, Ovi Mail. In addition to Ovi Mail, email and chat accounts can be pushed direct to the phone via Nokia Messaging. It supports microSD cards of up to 32GB.

Idea Cellular Kerala subscribers can now listen live news from Indiavision TV, a Malayalam news channel. IMImobile, technology partner for operators, media providers and enterprises tied up with Indiavision TV to provide this service to Idea Cellular users in Kerala.

Idea subscribers can listen to the live news in Malayalam on their mobile anywhere anytime, through IVR. This live news broadcast service created by IMImobile is first of its kind innovation in the telecom VAS space.

Acer recently unveiled Acer Liquid E Ferrari Special Edition Mobile. The Scarlet colored mobile's front boasts a 3.5 inch, hi-resolution capacitive touchscreen, while the back sports the legendary “Scuderia Ferrari” shield with details in carbon fibre, while the redesigned microphone recalls the “air intake inlet”, lending it a powerful look to keep it in pole position.

It is packed with Qualcomm Snapdragon 8250 processor running at 768 MHz. It runs on Android 2.1 Eclair. The specification of Liquid E Ferrari Special Edtition mobile is same as the Acer Liquid E.