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Loop Mobile announced the launch of SmartPaid. It comes with 4 different bundled value options for subscribers with free minutes for local calls on Loop Mobile network, for local calls on other networks and also for STD calls. SmartPaid bundles free local and national SMS. The plan allows prepaid subscribers additional benefits of mobile internet surfing upto 2GB, free voice mail and missed call alert.

SmartPaid is available in denominations of Rs. 320, Rs. 370 and Rs. 420.


You will also get

* Free 2 GB Mobile Internet (Post exhaustion of 2GB free limit and after expiry of SmartPaid validity, Mobile Internet will be charged @ 8p/10KB.)
* Free Miss call alerts
* Free VoiceMail Service

How To Activate?

New Subscribers:

* Buy a new Loop Mobile SIM Card and get it activated at any Loop Mobile Store or any retail outlet and simply recharging with etopup of Rs.320, Rs.370 or Rs.420

Existing Subscribers:

* An existing subscriber can get it activated by recharging with etopup of Rs 320, Rs 370 or Rs 420.

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We at Telecomtalk reported about Tata Docomo’s Daily Plans which was launched in March 2010.

Now Tata Docomo totally revamped its portfolio of Daily plans for all of its customers with some new plans including a regional pack targeting to people of different states.Tata Docomo introduced Rs 10 Weekly packs, to offer same benefits of Rs 2 packs but with a longer validity of 7 days for Rs 10.

Tata Docomo’s Daily Plans represents operator’s simplicity of anytime purchase, minimal cost and easer process.You can access the whole thing by dialing *141# and then you can choose from Daily plans on local, STD, Night calling, GPRS & Music.

Plans	Price (Rs)	Benefits	Validity
GPRS	5	10MB Free Browsing	upto midnight
	48	2GB free Data on GPRS	for 30 days
Rs 2 Daily Plans	2	All local at 1p/2sec	upto midnight
	2	STD at 3p/4sec	upto midnight
	2	Local Night On-net at 1p/10sec.	upto midnight
	2	Local On-net at  1p/6sec.	upto midnight
	2	USA/Canada & UK(F) at  3p/sec.	upto midnight
	2	Gulf at 11p/sec.	upto midnight
	2	All local & National SMS at 1p.	upto midnight
Rs 10 Weekly Plans	10	All local at 1p/2sec	7 days
	10	STD at 3p/4sec	7 days
	10	Local Night On-net at 1p/10sec.	7 days
	10	Local On-net at  1p/6sec.	7 days
	10	USA/Canada & UK(F) at  3p/sec.	7 days
	10	Gulf at 11p/sec.	7 days
	10	All local & National SMS at 1p.	7 days
Talk More	6	15 local minutes	upto midnight
	5	30 local onnet minutes	upto midnight
	12	30 local minutes	upto midnight
	14	30 local/STD minutes	upto midnight
	5	10 local/STD minutes	upto midnight
	10	5 minutes to USA/Canada	upto midnight
	20	10 minutes to USA/Canada	upto midnight
Night Talk	3	30 local onnet minutes	upto 7am of next day
	5	60 local onnet minutes	upto 7am of next day
	5	20 local minutes to all networks	upto 7am of next day
Buddy Chat	30	Make friends without disclosing your number	for 30 days
Regional Zone	Rs 3/SMS Or As per monthly subscription	Varies from Circle-to-circle. News, Jokes, Love Tips, Entertainment, Know your State etc are available 15 minutes FREE music at Rs.5 Cricket alerts at Rs.5/ day	Pay as you use or Get a monthly subscription
CallMe Tunes	Rs 30/month	You can check out new songs with catalog and change your selection and also can unsubscribe the services	30 days

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In a radical move to lure its prepaid GSM mobile service customers in Mumbai, IDEA Cellular, the pan-India mobile service operator has come up with first-of-its-kind innovative offer with maximum benefit to its prepaid customers to make local own-net callings at lowest and affordable price.

Idea Cellular has introduced new Special Tariff Voucher of Rs.18 which will help idea subscribers to make local calls to any Idea Mobile Number with in Mumbai, Maharashtra and Goa circles just at 10 paisa per minute.

All other network local and STD call charges will be applicable as per subscribers existing tariff plan.The STV18 will be valid for 30 days from the date of recharge. Speaking on the launch of New STV, Mr. Sashi Shankar, Chief Operating Officer – Mumbai, IDEA Cellular said ‘By introducing new Idea to Idea Power recharge we reinforce our commitment to provide value for money services to our subscribers. We understand our varied subscriber base and thus come up with best offers for varied sets of people. The Idea to Idea Power recharge will cater to a large section of people whose daily needs of staying in touch and informed will be served. By allowing consumers to pay less and talk more we have successfully been able to generate value and loyalty.

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Aircel one of the leading GSM Mobile service operator in India, has taken an Innovative Initiative as part of its social responsibility to reach out to the people during heavy rains and help them sail to their destination.

As part of this Initiative Aircel has put up a boat on a hoarding at strategic places where there is water logging and excessive flooding during the rains, thereby causing a lot of chaos and inconvenience to the commuters and pedestrians who get stranded for hours in anticipation for help to come by.

In an endeavor to reach out to all and make a difference in hard times, Aircel has come out with a dinghy-boat tied to a hoarding and when rains hit hard the rope can be easily cut and the boat is swung into action by the volunteers of Aircel to help ferry the stranded citizens safely from one point to the other. This Initiative has been carried out in Delhi – Minto Bridge; Pune – Deccan; Hyderabad – Hi-Tech City Subway; Bangalore – Koramangala; Cochin – Vytila; Chennai – Madipakkam & Velachery; Mumbai – Andheri Subway & Milan Subway; Kolkata – Park Circus; UP West – Agra-MG Road; Assam – Guwahati- T.C. Point; Orrissa – Bhubaneswar- Laxmi Sagar; Bihar – Patna-Dak Bangla and UP East – Lucknow-Sikandrbagh.

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Lava International Ltd, one of the leading mobile handset brands in the country sets a new standard with its latest innovation by introducing alpha keypad phones.

This innovative key pad is neither traditional Multi-tap nor QWERTY; instead the keys are arranged in ABCD order to provide convenience for the users. The brand has come-up with a new business series handsets featuring the innovative key pad.

To begin with, it has introduced this unique keypad in its new B2 & B5 handsets. This is the first time that any mobile handset player has been able to offer an option to make life simple for a large segment of mobile users, who were not familiar or comfortable with QWERTY or Multi-tap keypads. The company claims the concept behind Alpha key-pad phone is to make texting and e-mailing easier and faster. India has the largest number of people using sms and the Alpha keypad will go a long way to empower a very large segment of mobile users another benefit is to provide a user-friendly experience to increase adoptability of full key-pad phones at faster pace.

The Alpha keypad is meant for those set of people, who are not familiar or comfortable with QWERTY key pad but aspire to have phone like this. Besides, individuals who require one-handed mobility will find this concept more helpful.

Specification in Details LAVA B5

· A B C Keypads with QWERTY looks, Dual SIM, 2.2’inch QVGA TFT,E Mail support,

· JAVA,MP3, MP4, FM,2Mega Pixels Camera,1400mAh Battery,Bluetooth

· Memory – T Flash Card support upto 8 GB,3.5mm universal audio jack

Price: Rs. 4, 399/-

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Videocon Mobile Services today launched 4 new Super exciting Special Tariff Vouchers for customers in Mumbai.

Which are dubbed as “Local & STD Pack 14”, “Local & STD Pack 54”, “SMS @ 1p” and “Talk Truly Unlimited @ 59”which are priced economically and attractive at Rs 14, Rs 54, Rs.18 and at Rs59 respectively.

In “Local & STD Pack 14” customer gets 30 free minutes which can be utilized in Local as well also in STD, making effective call charge to 46paise/minute whereas in “Local & STD Pack 54” customer gets 125 free minutes which can be utilized in Local as well also in STD, making effective call charge to 43paise/minute.

Now you can enjoy all Local and STD SMS at just 1p/sms and that too at an affordable monthly rental of Rs.18 per month, what makes this tariff as India’s Most affordable tariff is that daily you have upper limit of sending a whopping 1000 smses, so in all you can send 30,000 smses per month. This sms offer is even cheaper to Reliance Mobile’s 1p sms offer, which is priced at Rs.19. Guess What, Videocon Mobile Services has also launched India’s most affordable calling scheme @ Rs. 59 wherein you can talk and sms UNLIMITED to any local Videocon number for FREE.

All the Packs come with a validity of 30 days.

The tariff details are tabulated below:
Particulars STV 14 STV 54 SMS 1P @ 18 Unlimited @59
MRP (Rs.) 14 54 18 59
Tariff Validity 30 Days 30 days 30 days 30 days
Talk Time (Rs.) - - - -
Pulse 60 seconds 60 seconds - 60 seconds
Special Benefits Free 30 Minutes for making local and STD calls on any network. Free 125 Minutes for making local and STD calls on any network. Enjoy Local & STD sms @ just 1p/sms Unlimited Local Videocon to Videocon calling and SMS
Fine Print - - Daily you can send up to 1000 sms @ 1p. -

For more information, call 121(toll free) from your Videocon number or 9076012345 from any other number. Alternatively, you can also log in to www.videocon.com for more information.

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Opera today released the first beta of Opera Mobile 10.1 for Symbian Series 60 phones.

Opera Mobile 10.1 beta features accelerated speed and geolocation capabilities the beta version comes with the powerful Presto rendering engine, Vega graphics library and Carakan JavaScript engine bringing the same engine power to mobile as on desktop.

Geo location feature allow one to put you and your mobile on the map, so that web services such as maps and travel applications can offer you tailored, relevant content.

Features:

- Opera desktop features, like Speed Dial, Opera Link, password manager, make it easier for you to surf on the go, by reducing the time and effort it takes to get to a website.

- Tabbed browsing, a virtual keyboard, kinetic scrolling and auto-rotation to landscape make browsing with Opera Mobile easier and a lot more fun. - When the network speed makes browsing tough, turn on Opera Turbo. Use our servers to compress webpages on the fly and more than double your browsing speed.

One can download the beta version of opera mobile 10.1 from http://m.opera.com/next/.

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Idea Cellular one of the leading mobile service provider in India has introduced a new VAS offering to its customers in India dubbed in as Idea Roamer Infoline .

Its specially designed foe Idea users only and is basically in tented for customers who roam a lot. It is an easy to use interactive IVR based service with SMS integration that will offer customers roaming on Idea networks with relevant information outside their home area. Customers needs to dial a short code to access the service.

Idea Roamer Infoline service is a first of its kind of value added service meant exclusively for roaming customers. It is an easy to use interactive IVR based service with SMS integration that will offer customers roaming on Idea networks with relevant information outside their home area. The customer while roaming needs to dial 56665 and follow the IVR. The information sought by the roamer will be sent to his handset through an SMS. The service offers roamers in any Idea network, across India*, information (region wise, state wise & city wise) pertaining to hotels, restaurants, pharmacies, shopping malls, ATM’s, coffee shops and many more.

Idea Roamer Infoline caters only to roaming customers and the service makes its very easy for roamers to search for information from the provided categories. The service is a guide for roamers in certain cities across India.

It offers affordable information – anytime and anywhere for roaming customers. It will be available to all Idea and non-Idea in roamers who will latch on to any Idea network across India except J&K, NE, Haryana and Assam where the service is presently not available.

The charges are Rs 3/min for a national in roamer

*The service is, currently, available in Tamil Nadu, West Bengal, Kolkata, Mumbai ,MP ,Rajasthan , UPW, Maharashtra , Gujarat ,HP ,Orissa, Kerala, Delhi, AP, UPE ,Bihar ,Karnataka ,Punjab.

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In an attempt to provide enhanced value propositions to the customers, Vodafone, the 2nd largest GSM operator in India today announced a path-breaking launch of Prepaid Blackberry Services with flexible plans for its GSM subscribers.

Vodafone’s prepaid GSM Mobile service users across all the telecom circle have the liberty to opt for prepaid BlackBerry services with Unlimited Internet, Email and IM Chat toning their requirements, not only on a monthly basis but also as per low cost and affordable Daily and weekly preferences, for the first time with any private GSM operators over prepaid options.

Vodafone Prepaid BlackBerry subscribers have all services in One Plan dubbed as Blackberry Internet Services clubbed with BlackBerry Messaging to choose from, according to the requirement for e-mail, instant messaging, social networking and Internet browsing. Vodafone Blackberry Internet cum Messaging Plans comes at monthly package of Rs.399, and weekly package of Rs 100, 3 Days Pack at Rs. 44 and Daily Plan just at Rs.15 only. Presently the Prepaid BlackBerry services will be available in Mumbai, Delhi-NCR, Kolkata, Chennai, Karnataka, Kerala, Tamilnadu and West Bengal telecom circles.Vodafone will be launched the same in remaining circles soon.

Vodafone Prepaid BlackBerry tariff Plans-:

Tariff plan Validity How to Activate Deactivation
Rs.15 1 Day sms ACT BIS15 to 111 CAN BIS15
Rs.44 3 Days sms ACT BIS44 to 111 CAN BIS44
Rs.100 7 Days sms ACT BIS100 to 111 CAN BIS100
Rs.399 30 Days sms ACT BIS399 to 111 CAN BIS399
To know more sms BB to 111 from Vodafone or call Customer care

Vodafone -BlackeBerry Service Features in Details-:

Internet on the go Experience superior internet speed while you surf you favorite sites, chat with friends on Googletalk, Yahoo & MSN messenger, download music,watch videos on YouTube, read movie reviews and get the latest news – all of this while you are on the move with your BlackBerry.
Mail-Push technology at work The fastest way to: receive your mails on your mobile. Blackberry service on Vodafone ‘pushes’ the mail instantly on to the screen and keeps you constantly wired to 10 of your email accounts. It even gives you the option to download, manage and resend your mail attachments.
BlackBerry Messenger (BBM) Love chatting? Then this is going to be a treat for you. Chat with all your BlackBerry buddies around the world and exchange pictures, videos and voice notes for free! Send messages up to 2000 characters and know when they get delivered and read. Personalise your BB profile and your chat windows.
Social Networking: Know what your friends are up to, how well your farm’s growing and who just visited your cafe with facebook on your phone or log on to your twitter account and tweet away to your heart’s content anytime, anywhere.
Multimedia Store and play music on your BlackBerry or on the expandable memory, watch full length movies, click pictures or videos and record songs, voice or messages with the voice recorder.
App World Music or games, business or weather, whatever your interest search and download that specific application. With thousands of applications sorted out as the most popular, newest and the highest rated, get what’s the best.

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Busy at work? Have time constraints? Can’t get access to Internet? Here comes a quick-fix solution-Hi Buddy!

India’s first voice based social networking platform introduced by India times, where you can meet and greet your friends and family. It’s really hassle free, just dial 58888199 and keep going places!

Introduce yourself to a world of full entertainment. Just dial 58888199 and get hooked to the unique features of Hi Buddy.Laugh out loud while listening to funny jokes, let the cook in you experiment with the recipes provided at Hi Buddy, listen to latest Bollywood gossips, get unique dating tips, comment on your friend’s status message, surround yourself with friends by adding them to your profile. Listen to the updates and comments of your friends, just dial 58888199. Comment on their status through Hi Buddy. Stay connected to your friends through voice networking by using Hi Buddy. It’s an all-in-one handy facility on voice which keeps you updated all the time. Connect to Hi Buddy and rock your world by connecting with like intellects!!

Getting used to the service is very easy. All that you have to do is to call 58888199 and subscribe to the service. Once you have done so you will be directed to your own default profile. You can then make changes to your profile and add the correct name and mobile number of your friend on this website.

Bas… Fir kya…! After your friends have approved your requests you’re through to an amazing world where you can share, adapt and explore your passion and talent with them and carve out a separate niche for yourself amongst your peers.

That’s not all you can also subscribe to various channels and receive daily alerts on the latest gossip in the entertainment industry, hep and chic dating tips to woo your partner, the latest info about the swanky bikes and cars, yummy food recipes & all.

Currently the service is available with only Reliance mobile network, but Indiatimes says it will soon be available on many more networks, Indiatimes also added that this innovative move comes as people across the Internet are bored with age old social networking sites like twitter, facebook, orkut etc and with such new innovative voice based networking people can stay connected with a refreshing new experience.

SO WHAT ARE YOU WAITING FOR – CALL UP 58888199 ABH

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