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After the Vodafone’s Prepaid blackberry services, Tata Docomo, the youngest and fastest-growing pan-India GSM Mobile service operator join the bandwagon of “Prepaid BlackBerry” and introduced new, affordable and exciting prepaid plans with Daily and weekly preferences.

Tata Docomo prepaid customers can choose from two service plans BlackBerry MaiLite, which offers customers access to e-mail and instant messaging services, and BlackBerry Internet Service, which also offers access to e-mail and instant messaging, as well as social networking sites and Internet browsing. The new prepaid plans include daily and weekly BlackBerry service plans for customers in India.

BlackBerry MaiLite and BlackBerry Internet Service are available at monthly packages of Rs 299 and Rs 900, weekly packages of Rs 85 and Rs 250, and daily packages of Rs. 12 and Rs. 35 respectively. Furthermore to increase the adoption of internet usage on the device, Tata DOCOMO is offering one week free trial usage of internet service on BlackBerry.Announcing the launch of pre-paid BlackBerry services and the daily plans, Mr Deepak Gulati, President, Tata Docomo, said: “We are delighted to announce this unique offer for BlackBerry smartphones. We want to give flexibility to our BlackBerry customers by giving them the option to choose from daily and weekly plans thus liberating them from monthly commitments alone. These plans are of great value to all those customers who seek to be in control of their expenses.”

Under the BlackBerry MaiLite service plan, customers get unlimited access to email and popular instant messaging services. It allows customers to access as many as 10 supported e-mail accounts such as Hotmail, Yahoo! Mail, Google Mail and chat on popular services, including Windows Live Messenger, Google Talk, Yahoo! Messenger and BlackBerry Messenger. As an additional benefit, BlackBerry Smartphones can display messages from multiple mailboxes in a single inbox and support viewing of e-mail attachments.

The BlackBerry Internet Service gives customers all the features of the BlackBerry MaiLite plan, plus unlimited access to social networking sites and Internet browsing.

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The latest Quality of GSM Network results released by the Mumbai based Pyro BKP Telecom Consultant have rated Vodafone Essar as the number one operator in Mumbai followed by Loop Mobile (formerly known as BPL Mobile) as number 2 , Idea Cellular as 3 and Bharti Airtel in the forth position for network quality in Mumbai telecom circle.

The Research Survey conducted on four private telecom operators in Mumbai by leading wireless network consultancy service agency Pyro BKP Telecom Consultants Pvt Ltd. The Benchmarking drive test was conducted using a “Nemo Network Analyzer” Tool and cover total distance of 2054 Km across the length and breadth of Mumbai city. In this Survey Loop Mobile network emerged with Minimum Blocked and ranked number one in call set up success rate and GPRS Data Speed.While Mumbai’s largest GSM mobile service operator Vodafone holds the first position for better quality and minimum call drops. Loop Mobile ranked number 2 in over all ranking a wafer-thin margin,Vodafone had better on Road and outdoor network coverage compare to all other private operators.

The Survey data was collected during the business hours of 09:00 to 18:00 and Nokia Handsets were used while conducting the survey.Following factors were looked into it Call Set up Success rate, Call Drop Rate, Blocked call rate, % of No Service Locations, On Road Coverage Laval and Handover Success rate.

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India’s National Telecom backbone Bharat Sanchar Nigam Ltd (BSNL) today launched its 3G GSM mobile and High Speed Wireless Internet services (3G Data services) in Vadodara (Baroda) city in Gujrat Telecom circle.

BSNL 3G services was inaugurated by Mr. Satya Pal, Chief General Manager (CGMT), BSNL Gujarat in the presence of Mr. Ramakant Sharma Principal General Manager of BSNL, Vadodara SSA.

Speaking on the launch of 3G services in Gujarat, Mr. Satya Pal said BSNL 3G Mobile and High Speed Data Services which is already launched in the state capital Gandhinagar and Ahemdabad city and now available in Vododara. He also announced that BSNL would cover 60 cities and towns including all District headquarters across Gujarat by September. In Rajkot, 3G services will be launched on July 25 while in Surat it will be launched by end of this month or first week of August. We are working to launch the 3G services in all major cities in the Gujarat telecom circle by the end of August-2010.

Riding on 3G, BSNL gives several options including High Speed Internet access with faster data downloading speed up to 3.6 Mbps, video calls and also subscribers can enjoy Live Mobile TV & VoIP services on 3G Compatible mobile phone.

BSNL 2G Prepaid customers of Gujarat can migrate to 3G by recharging with a Special tariff Voucher (STV) of Rs.21 or just send SMS, “ACT 3G” to 53733 following which Rs.21 will deducted from their balance and they will be migrated to 3G for a period of 30 days. These migrated customers can experience Video Calling, High Speed Internet, Mobile TV etc at 3G charges while retaining their 2G Voice Plan. Prepaid subscriber also allow to migrate in 3G Plan-120 by sending SMS “M3G120″‘ to ”53733″.

BSNL 2G Postpaid customers in Gujarat have to pay additional Rs.25 only per month to avail 3G services over and above their 2G services. The existing 2G Postpaid customers can also send SMS, ACT 3G to 53733. They can also approach customer service centers to subscribe 3G services .

BSNL also offers high-speed mobile Internet access for PCs and Laptops through the USB Data card subscription which comes with free all India roaming including Mumbai & Delhi. Convenient 3G data plans ranging from Rs.249 to Rs.2499 are available with both Postpaid & Prepaid options.To give the customers firsthand experience of 3G, Trial Packs have also been launched. As an introductory offer, local and national video calls from home LSA will be charged @30p/min.

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In an attempt to boost its Calling Card services, state run telecom giant Bharat Sanchar Nigam Limited (BSNL) today announced the launch of Pan-India applicable ”India Telephone Card” (ITC Card) with per second billing for Local/STD and ISD Calls.

The call charges will be 1p/second for all Local and STD calls to anywhere in India. While ISD calls to anywhere in the world will be charged as per second tariff from 6p/sec pulse to 45p/sec depends on Intentional location.

BSNL’s prepaid ITC card also known as the Virtual Calling Card is a pre-paid card which gives freedom to a customer to make local, STD, or ISD calls from any BSNL/MTNL land line or GSM phone. Cost of such call is debited against the paid credit of the ITC. The phone line from which call is made is not charged at all. There is no hassle of dynamic locking your phone and sharing password with anyone else in the family. Each member of your family may use a separate ITC sharing the same phone line. In case your ITC is stolen the loss is limited only to the credit balance left for that ITC – no more.

For more details on card denomination and ISD tariff click here BSNL ITC Card- Per Second.

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After the Pay Per Second and low cost Roaming tariff now the focus of Indian mobile price war completely shifted to the Free GPRS and SMS bundled with new connections or recharges.

Reliance Communications (RCom), once again targeted its rival by launching new prepaid pack dubbed as “Reliance Buzz” for its new prepaid GSM customers in Karnataka telecom circle.

The new Reliance Buzz GSM Prepaid Pack comes with a first recharge priced at Rs.66 with a talk time of Rs.40 and one-year validity. Subscriber can select Pay per second Plan (all calls at 1p/sec) or Pay per minute (all calls at 50p/min) as their own choice.

With this pack subscriber will get Free 500 SMS per day for a year and 40% off on subscriptions of Mobile Internet Pack of Rs.99 (up to 2.5GB) valid for 12 months from the date of recharges. In other words the Mobile Internet Pack will cost just Rs.59 per month instead of Rs.99 for all Reliance Buzz subscribers.

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