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Picture this .. Once you lend some money to your friend and now when you are in need for your own money their face turn ugly. Money .. money its gone!!

This is exactly where Virgin Mobile comes to the rescue with their Hatke way. Its Pay Back Time, the new fresh campaign which popped up few days ago in the internet is now the latest craze from Virgin mobile India in driving some youth customers to their piggy bank. Here’s what the idea is all about.

Just like CDMA in the very beginning when Virgin Mobile started off with a craze by giving out 10p/min for incoming calls this time also they are offering the same concept in their GSM connections too. It means that you make your friends call you back for which you get paid 10paise foe every minute you talk. Quite hatke isn’t it?

State run telecom operator Bharat Sanchar Nigam Ltd (BSNL) has launched one new GPRS Packs at Rs.14 and rationalized all existing limited and Unlimited GPRS plans for its 2G prepaid GSM mobile service users in Tamilnadu telecom circle.

The BSNL 2G prepaid subscribers in Tamilnadu circle can opt the new GPRS Pack by paying Rs.14 (Rs.13 for SMS based activation) for 3 Days access up 100 MB data transfer.The new GPRS pack will works in Home Circle as well as in National Roaming without any extra cost. Subscriber can access GPRS on Mobile Phone as well as browsing through PC or Laptop.

GPRS Pack of Rs.20 (Rs.18 for SMS based activation) will provide Fully Unlimited Internet browsing and downloads (Data Transfer) without and Fare Usage Policy (FUP) for 1 day access (up to midnight) from the date of recharges.

Bharti Airtel today gave social networking a voice with the official unveiling of Airtel Blog. With nearly 2 million users having experienced it in the first 3 months of its launch, Airtel Blog is currently the world’s fastest growing voice-oriented social networking service. With this, Airtel has brought the power of social networking on voice to its mobile customers – where they can share recorded voice updates with their followers – fans, friends or family.

Catch all the Football World Cup 2010 action on your Vodafone mobile. Vodafone to cash in the Football Fever is offering its subscribers Football alerts, songs, videos, wallpapers and games. Vodafone subscribers can also set Football anthems as their caller tunes and ringtones.

Football Alerts
To get news and updates on football on your Vadafone mobile dial *123*04#. You will be charged Rs.3/day for receiving the alerts.

MediaTek India, a well known semiconductor company has recently carried out a survey with shopkeepers and mobile phone users to gauge the latest trends in this space.

The study reveals that India is still a low cost phone destination. About 50% of the users interviewed still tend to buy a handset in the Rs.1500 – Rs. 2000 range with basic functionalities.

This is similar to an earlier survey carried out by MediaTek in rural India, where 55% of the rural users too buy a low cost phone based on the recommendations of peers, friends, family etc.

The survey was carried out over a sample size of 1000 people in Metros and about 300 shopkeepers. It consisted of a mixed group of people belonging to the middle and low income groups including young people and students.