MNP : Over 64 Lakh Mobile Subscribers Switch To Other Operators

The Number of Unhappy MobileService users crossed 64 lakh Nationwide by end of 31st March 2011.
Gujarat, Haryana, Karnataka and Rajasthan telecom circleshas the Highest Number of Mobile service subscribers willing to change their currentoperators through Mobile Number Portability (MNP) Service.
As per the data reported by the service providers, by the end of March 2011 about 64.23 lakh subscribers have submitted their requests to different service providers for porting their mobile number.
Out of these requests around 6.17 lakh mobile subscribers in Gujarat circle switch to other operator while 5.49 lakhin Rajasthan, 5.29 lakh in Karnataka, 4.40 lakh in Maharashtra & Goa and 4.33 lakh pertains to Haryana wherein MNP was implementedfrom 25th Nov. 2010.
In rest of the country, in MNPZone-I (Northern & Western India) maximum number of requests have been received in Gujarat (6.17 lakh) followed by Rajasthan (5.49 lakh) whereas in MNP Zone-II(Southern & Eastern India) maximum number of requests have been received in Karnataka ( 5.29 lakh) followed by Tamil Nadu Servicearea(4.74 lakh) .

BSNL Launches ‘Customer Delight Month’

In a bid to provide Superior customer care experience and expanding the subscriber base,Bharat Sanchar Nigam Ltd (BSNL) today announced a new initiative dubbed as ‘Customer Delight Month’ in Andhra Pradesh Telecom circle.
According to BSNL during the “ Customer Delight Month ” company employ will address all Grievances Pertaining to Quality of Service, Transparent Billing, Improve customer satisfaction level and make efforts to motivateand bring customers from other service providers to BSNL via mobile Number Portability (MNP).
Announcing the new initiative, Mr. Rajiv Agarwal, CGMT, BSNL, Andhra Pradesh circle, said “We want to send amessage that we care for the customers. To improve the Quality of Service, the focus would be on four aspects, ZeroFault Rate, Total customer care, customer awareness andReview.
Mr Agarwal also said that all Landline faults shall be cleared on the same day whileall cable faults and broadband faults will be cleared within 48 hours. Awareness programs during the Month of May will be organized through pamphlets, display posters, flexi-boards and also through media to spread the “WE CARE” messagetowards the customer.

Enjoy free access to Yahoo Mail and Gmail on your Vodafone Mobile

As you all know Vodafone is running its Super week promotional campaign where every week users of vodafone mobile will get something for free.Earlier Vodafone has offered “connect with friends” where Vodafone users can enjoy free browsing to all social networking sites.
This  week’s offer is “ FREE EMAIL’ where you can enjoy free access to Yahoo Mail and Gmail service on your Vodafone mobile.
This offer is only valid for one week (7 Days) from 00:00:00 hours Saturday 30 April To 11:59:59 PM Friday 6th May 2011 under EMAIL SUPER WEEK Offers.
To avail the offer subscriber needs to send SMS ‘SUPER’ to 111 (toll free).

Now Make Local Calls at 35 Paise From Vodafone

Vodafone today launched a new Bonus Card priced at Rs. 39 for its customers in Kolkata.
The card offers all prepaid Vodafone customers to make local calls at 35 paise per minute this includes calls made from Vodafone to Vodafone numbers and Vodafone to other local numbers.
For STD calls base tariff ratesare applicable.Valid for a period of 30 days, Bonus Card39 is

Nokia N8 Now in Pink color

Nokia just made the Pink color alternative of the Nokia N8 official. Internals of this device are exactly the same aswith all the other colors, but the software is a little bit different.
Rachael Bell, Senior Designer, Nokia adds this:
Following the fantastic response to the range of colors we launched for the Nokia N8, it seemed a natural step to extend this choice. TheNokia N8 in pink complementsthe original line up well with its expressive, intense hue.
Of course you’ve got the usual services on the Nokia N8, such as free Ovi Maps for navigating around town and Ovi Store for downloading apps but there’s also a bunch of other pink themed apps too.
There’s the Little Pink Diva Theme for adding some colourinto your menus and a great Pink Neon Clock too when it comes to making sure you’re not late for your next meeting, and the ELLE fashion app keeps you up-to-date with the latest fashion, beauty and celebrity news.
Nokia didn’t comment on when this will be available.

R K Upadhyay Appointed As CMD of BSNL

The Department of Telecommunications (DoT), Government of India today finally appointed Mr. Rakesh Kumar Upadhyay as the Chairman and Managing Director (CMD) of India’s National Telecom Backbone, Bharat Sanchar Nigam Ltd ( BSNL ).
According to the Mr R. Chandrashekhar, Secretary, DoT, “A search cum selection panel headed by Mr. Sam Pitroda, adviser to the Prime Minister of India, had earlierselected Mr. Rakesh Kumar Upadhyay, CMD of Telecom Consultants India Ltd (TCIL),for the post of CMD BSNL and Mr Upadhyay will join BSNL office as CMD from today.”
However, No decision regarding the appointment ofCMD for another PSU Mahanagar Telephone Nigam Ltd (MTNL), has been taken yet.
Presently Mr Upadhyay is CMDof Telecom Consultants India Ltd. He is 1975 batch officer of Indian Telecom Services. He holds a B.Tech (Electronics) Degree from IT Banaras Hindu University andMBA (Marketing Management)Degree from the Indira Gandhi Open University.
He is also a graduate of Defence Staff Services College (DSSC) Wellington and was awarded M.Sc (D.S.) Degree by Madras University. He has successfully worked in Department of Telecommunications from August 1975 to July 1996 in the areas of Planning, Installation and Commissioning, Commercial administration and operations.
While on deputation to TCIL during October 1996 to August1999, he successfully worked in the foreign projects as Project Director, Sana’a and General Manager, Yemen. After a stint from Jan.’2000 to Jun.’2003 in BSNL as General Manager Jammu & Kashmir Telecom Circle he joined TCIL again on deputation in June 2003. After joining TCIL, he successfully worked as a ChiefProject Director, Algeria, Group General Manager (New Technology) and Executive Director (Project Monitoring) and other important assignments. He has got rich experience in the fields of Planning, Projects, Operation and Business Development.

Spice Mobility To Switch To being a Mobile Internet Company

Spice Mobility, today announced the switch to beinga technology company focusedon the Mobile Internet space.
The Switch will leverage Spice groups businesses across sectors and geographies to catapult the historically neglected i2i economies in to emerging digital economies with Mobile Internet.
The company also unveiled the strategic roadmap to complete the first phase of the switch by Sep 2011 where in Rs. 1000 crore investments planned for FY 2011 to develop Seven cluster distribution model to dominate Indian Mobile Retail and Global Knowledge Center set-up at Noida.
India’s move to 830 million mobile phones subscribers far out-stripping the PC industry is a harbinger of the paradigm shift in the developing nations of the world. Sectors ranging from finance, education, entertainment and healthcare will evolve in to mobile internet businesses. For the last two years Spice Mobility has been putting together the building blocks toleverage this paradigm shift.

RIM Introduces New BlackBerry Bold 9900 and 9930 Smartphones

Research In Motion  today announced  two new BlackBerry Bold smartphones 9900 and 9930 smartphones which features  BlackBerry 7 operating system.
These BlackBerry Bold smartphones are built on a new performance-driven platform featuring a 1.2 GHz processor, Liquid Graphics  touch screen, and support forhigh speed 4G/HSPA+ wide area wireless networks.
The new platform also provides support for 4G networks; the 9900 supports HSPA+ connectivity, and the 9930 supports CDMA EV-DO Rev. A and HSPA+ global roaming on GSM/UMTS networks.
The BlackBerry Bold 9900 and9930 smartphones include built-in support for NFC (NearField Communications), a new technology that will enable many rich and exciting experiences.
Through NFC, users will be ableto, for example, pair the BlackBerry Bold to an accessory or read informationsuch as a web link from smarttags by simply tapping their BlackBerry Bold to an NFC tag (eg. Smart Poster).
The BlackBerry 7 OS is designed to power the new performance-driven BlackBerry Bold platform. It provides an easier and fasteruser experience with improvedbrowsing, voice-activated searches, the ability to manage personal content separately from corporate content, as well as additional personal and productivity apps out of the box.
BlackBerry Bold 9900 and 9930 Specifications

115 x 66 x 10.5 mm, approximately 130 g
• 2.8″ capacitive touch screen display – VGA (640×480), 287 dpi resolution
• Ultra-easy QWERTY keyboard, optical trackpad
• 1.2 GHz Processor, 768 MB RAM
• 8 GB on-board memory, plus microSD slot supporting up to 32 GB cards
• NFC technology
• 5.0 MP camera, supports 720p HD video recording
• Orientation Sensor (Accelerometer), Digital Compass (Magnetometer

BSNL Launches Validity Voucher- 94 for ‘Pyari Jodi’ Plan Subscribers

India’s National Telecom backbone and Pan India 3G Mobile service operator BharatSanchar Nigam Ltd (BSNL) today announced the launch of Special Validity Voucher-94for its Pyari Jodi Plan subscribers in Karnataka telecom circle.
With the SVV-94, all existing “Pyari Jodi” plan subscriber can extends tariff validity period up to 365 days from the date of recharge.
BSNL Pyari Jodi Plan was launched in October 2010 wherein subscriber can make Unlimited Free Local calls from BSNL mobile to his registered home land line (Only from Home LSA).While all other local and STD Calls (except Home land line number) shall be charged as per ‘Pay-Per Second’ tariff.
The Pyari Jodi Plan was comeswith initial validity of 180 days, further validity can be extended by using any of the Validity recharge coupons or newly launched SVV-94  and continue to enjoy the Unlimited Free call facility forever.

Idea launches ‘My Card’ in Delhi & NCR

IDEA today launched a new ‘My Card’ voucher in Delhi, enabling its subscribers to avail multiple Voice & VAS benefits, absolutely free.
Idea subscribers can now availbenefits in the form of free talktime, free minutes, free SMS with this special voucher.
Idea subscribers who avail ‘MyCard’ till 15th May 2011 also stand a chance to win Tickets to Delhi Daredevils match andan exclusive opportunity to bepresent at the Toss, and Meet& Greet their favorite Delhi Daredevil players.
Idea has innovatively christened this new voucher as ‘My Card’ providing free voice and value added services for its subscribers and can be availed from any My Idea showroom or select retailers across Delhi NCR.
‘My Card’ offers incentives once a month to prepaid subscribers. Users are not required to do any other recharge to avail the My Card benefit. Interested users can call on 9540404040 for further details.

Idea Launches 3G Service In Goa

IDEA Cellular today announced the launch of 3G service in Panaji, Mapusa, Margao, Vasco and Ponda in Goa.
As of now Idea’s 3G services are available in 9 circles – MP,Gujarat, HP, UP West, UP East,AP, Kerala and Haryana, besides Maharashtra, and hasalready enrolled over 1 million users in the first of month of launch.
Idea has introduced Time based Billing plan for 3G services enabling users to avail high-end data services without worrying about the volume of usage.
To promote usage, Idea has introduced ‘sachet’ pricing offering attractive trial packages with per day billing.
To know more about Idea’s 3G services, and to check handset compatibility, customers can log onto www.ideacellular.com/3gor SMS 3G to Toll Free No. 54777.
To feel the difference personally, mobile users can experience 3G services at special ‘Experience Kiosks’ set up inside select ‘My Idea’ stores in Goa.

MTS Launches Handset BundleOffer In Gujarat

MTS, the CDMA mobile services of Sistema Shyam TeleServices Ltd (SSTL), today announced an exciting offer Handset Bundling offer for mobile customers in Gujarat.
Customers in Gujarat now have the advantage to get a Life Time valid MTS mobile connection for Rs. 900 with a colour handset bundled Plus Free talk time of 2700 minutes, to be utilized over three months. This translates to 900 minutes of free talk time for the same duration.The offer is spread across 3 months i.e. 900 minutes each month and segregated into 600 MTS to MTS minutes and 300 MTS to other network minutes.
Customers availing this offer have three colour handsets to choose from i.e. MTS Popular, MTS Striker and MTS Super Power. Furthermore, after theusage of the free minutes, customer can enjoy the benefit of a cost-effective rate as low as just 1 paise persecond for both local and STD calls.
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