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 Tata Indicom has introduced New SMS PACK & UNLIMITED Calling Plans for its CDMA Users in Kolkata and Rest of Bengal.
DETAILS:Cost - Rs. 55
Free Local & STD SMS - 1,500 SMS
Validity - 30 Days

UNLIMITED CALLING

Cost - Rs. 299
Local Own Network - UNLIMITED
Local Other Network - Free 30 Minutes Evereyday + Free 30 Minutes on Sundays
Validity - 30 Days

Cost - Rs. 97
Local Own Network - UNLIMITED
Local Other Network - Free 30 Minutes Evereyday + Free 30 Minutes on Sundays
Validity - 7 Days

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Aircel the fast growing Pan India telecom operator in the country, today announced the launch of its GSM mobile services in Madhya Pradesh & Chattisgarh. With a subscriber base of 40 million, Aircel, extended its GSM services to MP & Chattisgarh, rolling out its 19th telecom circle.

Speaking on launch of GSM Mobile services, Mr. Gurdeep Singh, Chief Operating Officer, Aircel said, “We are proud to be here in MP & Chattisgarh and present to our customers a National Brand with a strong local connect. We will be introducing products and services uniquely tailored to meet the special needs of our MP & Chattisgarh consumers.

Aircel introduced super attractive never before prepaid tariff plans for half the price in a simple manner, all local calls to any network are @ 1paise/ 2 seconds and all STD calls for the first 10,000secs are @ 1paise/ per second.
Mr. Gurdeep Singh, further added, “We attribute our success to our core values of trustworthiness, simplicity, strong local connect and service that is value for money. We bring these same values to serve MP & Chattisgarh. With mobile penetration of 40% in MP & Chattisgarh, there is a huge opportunity to serve our consumers.”

To address the needs of the consumers in MP & Chattisgarh, Aircel has introduced the tariff plan at Half Rate ie. @1paise/2seconds for all local calls, this can be availed in three product sizes, @Re.45/30days, @Re.85/60days and @Re.125/90days. Combined with an aggressive voice calling advantage, the Aircel offer is bundled with free local SMS’s up to 50 SMS, 150 SMS & 300 SMS, respectively depending on the product and is valid for 30 days.

Also, to facilitate the large migrant population, Aircel offers free incoming roaming benefits for customers travelling to neighboring states of UP, Maharashtra, while roaming on Aircel network for a period of 90 days.

To address a significant population that has a strong base in Gulf, US and Canada, Aircel provides an attractive ISD package for USA/Canada@ Re 1.50 per minute and to UAE, Saudi, Kuwait, Bahrain, and Qatar @Re 6.25 per minute.

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Tata Teleservices (TTSL) has won Global Telecoms Business Innovation Awards-2010 in the Consumer Charging Innovation category for its GSM mobile service brand Tata Docomo along with its Chanel partner Telcordia.

The GTB Innovation Award winners honor the most innovative projects in the telecommunication industry across mobile and fixed network infrastructure as well as wholesale, business and consumer services.

Tata DOCOMO marks a significant milestone in the Indian telecom landscape, and has already redefined the very face of telecoms in India, being the first to pioneer the One paisa one Second or per-second tariff option—part of its ‘Pay for What You Use’ pricing paradigm.
Tata Teleservices selected Telcordia to help implement its Tata Docomo GSM-based prepaid service offerings in the rapidly growing market in 2009. Within a few months, Telcordia real-time charging was implemented, enabling TTSL to launch its innovative pre-paid service offerings with per second billing, delivering a highly scalable, reliable, flexible and cost-effective, real-time charging solution. Since June 2009, it has gone from zero to 30 million subscribers, adding over 100,000, on average, a day.

Tata Teleservices and Telcordia have since expanded on this proposition by offering a rollover service for unused minutes and SMS for up to three months for enterprise customers. This is a new proposition for the telecommunications market, and means that enterprises ensure they maximise their plan benefits.

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Delightful news for the football crazy Its not just your Vodafone make it the Vodafootball!

The Mega feast of football has begun and if you are not headed to South Africa you should be at least headed to your TV room Or should you? Vodafone has gone a step ahead to bring all that to you in a more personal way.

Just tune in to the right service on Vodafone and you are set to receive all the trivia and action from the colorful land of S.Africa. Now set the vuvuzela blaring on your mobile, no matter where you are headed. In keeping with the theme of the ongoing football season, Vodafone Essar has launched several exciting value-added services and roaming benefits for its customers.Vodafone’s value-added services (VAS) include callertunes, ringtones, football alerts, Four in one alerts, wallpapers, exclusive games, news, trivia, polls and videos.

1. Callertunes : sms ANTHEM to 111 (toll-free)

To activate Song
Dial*567*02# or sms CT 10707437 to 56789 ‘Waka Waka this time for Africa’ by Shakira
Dial *567*00# or sms CT 10708328 to 56789 ‘Hips Don’t lie by Shakira’
sms CT 10708331 to 56789 ‘Cup of Life’ by Ricky Martin
Dial*567*02# sms CT 10707937 to 56789 Waving Flag Celebration mix’
sms CT 1500541 to 56789 3 above songs can be shuffled

Charges: Rs 3 / SMS | Call at 30p/min | Rs 15 / song selection | Monthly rent – Rs 30

2. Alerts : For General Football updates simply SMS FOOTBALL to 111


Description To activate/subscribe Charges
Football Alerts Dial *123*225# Rs 50/ per month
Four -in- one sports alerts service (four alerts per match/any match day including- football, cricket, tennis & motorsports, Dial *123*04# Rs 3/- per match day
3.Vodafone live !

Customers can now experiencing soccer like never before by simply logging on to Vodafone live! from their GPRS enabled mobile phones to play football games, download ringtones, videos and images. You can also get match scores, news, and lots more. They can take part in some exciting contests and win prizes as well.

Usage charge: 10p / 10KB

4.Reduced Roaming charges

For customers travelling to South Africa in partnership with its subsidiary Vodacom, one of South Africa’s leading mobile services provider, is offering a 25 percent discount on calls and SMS

Customers must select the Vodacom network while roaming in South Africa to enjoy this benefit.

ROAMING RATES IN SOUTH AFRICA (Prepaid and Post-paid Customers)
Rs. per minute Outgoing calls – International Incoming Calls SMS GPRS (Exclusively for Postpaid Customers)
Current Retail Rate/ Min 58.00 27.60 15.00 5.50
Discount % 25%
Discounted Rate/Min 43.50 20.70 11.25 4.13
The special roaming rates are applicable till July 14, 2010 to all Vodafone India customers traveling to South Africa.

K Sankara Narayanan, Chief Executive Officer – Karnataka , Vodafone Essar South Limited said “The football fever is in full swing and in addition to being broadcast partners, we are also delighted to provide our customers with innovative ways of experiencing the soccer mania. We have a slew of exciting services and we do hope that our customers will savor the very best on their mobile phones this season. ”

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Tata Indicom, the CDMA services of Tata Teleservices revamped its special tariff voucher portfolio in Kolkata and Rest of Bengal telecom circles.

Tata Indicom in-spite of its ‘Pay Per Call’ plan can not catch new customers as much as other CDMA operators MTS and Reliance do in these circles.Tata Indicom comes with a new SMS pack revised to offer 1500 local and national sms for a month.

Apart from this Tata Indicom has launched a bundle of onnet calling packs offering unlimited onnet calling for a period of 7 days to 180 days.There is also a pack to call local tata numbers at 1p/minute for 24 hours.

Details of the packs:MRP (Rs) Benefits Validity (days)
11 Local onnet 1p/min 1
55 1500 Local + STD SMS 30
299 Unlimited Local Onnet, 30 Local offnet mins free per day, 30 additional Local offnet mins free on Sundays 30
599 Unlimited Local + STD Onnet, 30 Local + STD offnet mins free per day, 30 additional Local + STD offnet mins free on Sundays 30
97 Unlimited Local Onnet, 30 Local offnet mins free per day, 30 additional Local offnet mins free on Sundays 7
197 Unlimited Local + STD Onnet, 30 Local + STD offnet mins free per day, 30 additional Local + STD offnet mins free on Sundays 7
595 Unlimited Onnet local calling 90
995 Unlimited Onnet local calling 180
For assistance call Tata Indicom Kolkata customer care 9231012345 or 121 or 12524


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India’s 5th largest GSM Mobile service operator Aircel today announced that it has won the “Business Delivery Innovation award” along with its Chanel partner Oracle Communications at fourth Global Telecom Business Innovation Awards held at London (UK).

The prestigious ‘Business Delivery Innovation Award’ recognizes Aircel’s ability to create new customer offerings and deliver them to market faster, while also eliminating the number of lost and unfulfilled customer orders resulting from information being held on different systems across the company.

Aircel which has more than 33 million subscribers, across 18 different states in India, with continued plans to expand its customer base to 50 million by the end of 2010. Teaming up with Oracle Communications, the company implemented Oracle’s Order and Service Management 7.0 to ensure rapid offer design andorder delivery of services to customers with rich business logic, scalable design, centralised decomposition and orchestration, and multi-service support.

Commenting on the new achievement Ravinder Jain, Chief Information Officer, Aircel said “We are delighted to receive this award. Our customers are extremely important to us and Oracle Communications technology has ensured that not only can we bill them effectively and accurately but we deliver them with their desired products and services on time. Oracle Communications supports the way we engage with and serve our customers and we look forward to continuing our relationship with them as we increase our customer base to 50 million by the end of 2010.”

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Pyro a leader in providing innovative mobile technology solutions has won the contract from BSNL, one of the biggest telecom operators in India for implementing its Ctop-up solution on BSNL’s Network, now on a PAN India basis.

Through Pyro’s Ctop-up solution, BSNL’s GSM and CDMA customers will be able to electronically recharge their prepaid account through BSNL’s chain of over one million retailers as well as through BSNL’s website.

Pyro has integrated the Ctop-up solution on various INs such as
Ericsson, Siemens, NSN, Huawei, ZTE and Alcatel, which is scheduled to come on board soon, hus making Pyro one of the only robust Mobile technology solutions provider to have worked on multiple IN platforms.

Shri SC Sharma, GM NWO of BSNL Corporate office quoted “We were getting satisfactory services from M/s Pyro in South and East Zones for last three years and are expanding their area of operation in remaining two zones i.e. North and West for the Ctop-up solution. Pyro’s Ctop-up platform will become a one-stop shop for all financial retail transactions. We look forward to Pyro’s partnership and contribution in strengthening BSNL’s various initiatives.”

S M Reddy, CEO, Pyro said, “We are pleased to have won the tender to offer PAN India Ctop-up solution to BSNL. With this consolidation and with MTNL already on Pyro’s Ctop-up platform, this win is an acknowledgement of our positioning in the telecom industry as the leading provider of Value Added Services. BSNL has always been a pioneer of launching cutting-edge services in India and we look forward to continue offering various products and services.”

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India’s first 3G Mobile service operator Mahanagar Telephone Nigam Ltd (MTNL), toady announced the launch of ground braking Value Added Services for its next generation 3G mobile service subscriber in Delhi and Mumbai telecom circles.
MTNL ties-up with Bay Talkitec, a leading 3G Mobile VAS solutions provider and introduces Video on Demand,Video SMS, Dial TV (TV without Internet), YouTube upload and Video Conferencing. The new services are concentrated on the generation youth like Video Fun, Video Handy Cam and Video Greeting.

These 3G Value Added Service allows the MTNL subscribers to traverse a wide variety of categories through the video call platform. The services are available on both pay per usage and subscription models. User can dial in anytime and enjoy the Video SMS, latest music, TV without Internet, bollywood updates, celebrity interviews and movies. User can even dedicate that particular video to any other subscriber for more usage trend.
Recently, MTNL has been upgraded its 47 Lakhs 2G Mobile service users into next generation 3G Mobile Services in Delhi and Mumbai circles. MTNL 3G services enable its subscribers High Speed wireless Internet with faster downloads, Live TV and video streaming among other value added features.



3G Value Added Services- MTNL Mumbai (Dolphin/Trump)
Service How to use Charges
Video SMS, YouTube upload,
Video conferencing

Dial 54321 as Video Call And follow the instruction Rs.2 per minute
Video greeting Dial 54322 as Video Call And follow the instruction Rs.2 per minute
Dial TV service Dial 54323 as Video Call And follow the instruction Rs.2 per minute
For more information call 98690-12345 or 1503 (Toll Free)

3G Value Added Services- MTNL Delhi (Dolphin/Trump)
Service How to use Charges
Video SMS, YouTube upload and
Video

conferencing

Dial 54848 as Video Call and follow the instruction over Voice and Screen Option 1. Monthly Subscription @ Rs.30 with a usage charge of
30paisa /minute for Video Calls

over 54848

Option 2. Pay per use – Rs.2 per minute.

For more information call 98681-12345 or 1503 (Toll Free)

COAI has released Subscriber additions for the Month of May 2010

Bharti Airtel has added 3 Million Users in May

Vodafone has added 2.59 Million Subscribers in May & has a Total of 106.3 Million Users

Reliance Communications added 2.82 Million New Users & made its Total 108 million.

Tata Teleservices [GSM + CDMA] has added 2.33 Million Users in May 2010 and its Total has crossed 70 Million

Uninor net base did not increase but has decreased a bit, by 8722 approx

Cheers [Etisalat DB] added over 5,000 New users

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Tata Docomo Weekend Night Calling Pack is now available to its Prepaid Users in Mumbai
It has a validity of 30 days but the 1p/6 sec will be available only on weekend 11 pm - 7 am.
Cost - Rs. 29
Local Tata to Tata Call - 1 Paisa Per 6 Seconds [ 11pm to 7am ]
Validity - 30 Days [ Available only in Weekend ]

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Small is what it is, but big is what you get out of it! Aircel has launched a new Pocket internet card which comes at the cost of a cutting chai – Just Rs. 5.

This comes with a validity of one day browsing and an extra free* day of browsing thrown in for good measure, but the limit is set at 20 Mb to ascertain fair use policy per day.

To Activate one day free internet,one has to visit the url http://mail.live.com from your Aircel mobile within 30 days of recharge.

Sign in with your Windows Live Hotmail, MSN or Windows Live Messenger ID or sign up for a new account. After logging in , click on ‘Aircel free Internet’ at the top and claim your one day free internet.
he one day free pack will be activated within 48 hours. You can only avail this offer a maximum of 3 times. Offer valid till September 30,2010

Details

1)Validity – 1 Day Browsing + 1 Extra Day Free*

2)Fair use policy applies. Browsing up to 20 mb only.

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World’s most popular Mobile Internet Browser developers Opera Software is geared up to double its subscriber base in the Indian mobile space from 5 million now to 10 million over the next six months.
The Opera mini web browser for Mobile Phones has emerged as the most popular mobile web browser amongst mobile Internet (GPRS/EDGE) users in India which is registering strongest growth.The best part about Opera Mini is that it fits into all sorts of mobile phones, even the low-end 2G or high end 2.5G/ 3G-UMTS enabled phones.To achieve the new targets, Opera has entered a joint collaboration with Indian telecom operators and mobile phone makers like 3rd largest handset player Micromax and Chinese phone maker like Meta-Tech, Huwaei Mobile and
others who are selling phones in India. The company also in talks with country’s largest GSM Mobile service operator Bharti Airtel, Idea Cellular and latest entrant in Indian GSM space Uninor for bundling Opera Mini software through service providers Chanel.

Earlier in April-2010, Opera has been embedded customized Opera Mini 5 mobile browser in a range of 20 devices as well as being downloadable to over 250 GPRS supported handsets free of cost with leading GSM operator Vodafone’s customer base in India.

Norwegian browser developer’s Opera Mini mobile-phone browser, available for free on practically any mobile phone, reduces the amount of data necessary to display a full web page on your mobile phone. With this compression, the user gets more pages served for less money than other mobile browsers, up to 90% cheaper than by using native browsers.

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In a bid to boost the 3G Wireless Broadband services, India’s first 3G Mobile service operator Mahanagar Telephone Nigam Ltd (MTNL) today slashed the price of its plug-n-play 3G USB Devices (3G Data Card) from Rs.2500 to Rs.1799 for its customer in Delhi telecom circle.

MTNL’s new 3G Data card will be available in all Sanchar Haats across Delhi from 5th July, 2010 onwards. The operator also offers free 3G prepaid SIM card and free data transfers (Download and Upload) up to of 10 GB per month (total 20 GB) for 2 months on the purchase of 3G Data Card.

MTNL 3G Data Card will enable anytime, anywhere instant High Speed wireless Internet connectivity up to 3.6 MBPS and 7.2 Mbps (depends on device) for laptops and other computing devices, thereby significantly benefiting business users, roamers and travelers. MTNL’s 3G Wireless Broadband service comes with the attractive Limited and Unlimited 3G data tariff plans for postpaid and prepaid starts from Rs.50 to Rs.2500.

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Airtel karnataka has withdrawn its Rs.10 GPRS Pack & had made Rs.10 a top-up recharge in which u get Rs.6 Talktime .
Instead of that airtel has introduced a new GPRS Pack at Rs.7 thro E-recharge
DETAILS

Cost - Rs.7
Free Data - 70 MB
Validity - 2 Days

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Videocon has introduced a Special Tariff Voucher which offers Local ON-Net Night Calls at 20 paise /min & Other Local calls at 40 Paise /min for its Prepaid Users in TamilNadu.
DETAILS

Cost - Rs. 42
Local Own-Network Calls - 20 Paise Per Minute [10 pm to 8 am]
Local to Others - 40 Paise Per Minute
STD - 50 Paise Per Minute
Validity - 1 Year

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On the occasion of S.S.C results declared, MTNL (Mumbai) is offering Free broadband access facility to S.S.C students, for on-line registration of FYJC at 24 of MTNL’s Customer Service Center (CSC). Successful S.S.C students can avail free online registration facility on Broad Band connection provided through these selected customer services centers in MTNL, Mumbai. 

MTNL Mumbai is also offering selected MTNL services to students at discounted rates. Students can avail 3G youth plan SIM along with FRTC – 53 for Rs 25, GPRS 14 at Rs.10, GPRS 98 at Rs.70, SMS 30 at Rs.20 and SMS 98 at Rs.65 during the promotional offer period.The free broadband service facility will be available at the following CSC’s:
Colaba (Telephone Bhavan), Mazagaon, Byculla, Worli, Prabhadevi, Wadala, Shivaji-Park, Sion. Bandra, Khar, Andheri, Jogeshwari, Marol, Kandivali, Borivali, Chembur, Hingewala Lane, Ghatkopar, Nityanand Nagar, Mulund, Navpada,Cherai, Wagle-Estate and Vashi.    

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