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MTNL Will Provide 3G and Wi-Fi Services At Cheapest Rates to JNU

Posted: 26 Jun 2010 12:35 AM PDT

Minister of State for Telecommunications & IT, Mr.Sachin Pilot, Mr. Kuldeep Singh CMD MTNL and the Vice-Chancellor of JNU,B.B.Bhattacharya witnessing the exchanging signed an MoU

In an endeavorer to provide an exclusive, affordable and dedicated telecommunication network to the students and educational institutes, Mahanagar Telephone Nigam Ltd (MTNL) the leading total telecom service provider has signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with the Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU), Delhi.

MTNL would provide its next generation 3G Mobile and Wi-Fi Broadband services at cheapest or concessational rates to the students and University.

The MOU was signed in the presence of Minister of state for Telecommunications and IT Mr. Sachin Pilot, Mr. Kuldeep Singh, Chairman & Managing Director, MTNL and Prof. B.B. Bhattacharya, Vice-Chancellor, Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU), Delhi.

Speaking on the new initiative of MTNL, Sachin Pilot, said “JNU is a premier institute in the country, MTNL has offered to facilitate the students of the University to access the Local Area Network (LAN) of JNU using MTNL 3G network.With this initiative MTNL would provide Wi-Fi connectivity to all the JNU Hostels at its own cost to ensure that students, staff, and faculty are able to access affordable high speed Broadband Internet anywhere in the hostels.”

To ensure seamless conectivity with the good coverage and good quality of service, MTNL has set-up four additional 3G towers (BTS) on campus to cover the sprawling JNU Campus. The capital expenditure for this is being incurred by MTNL as part of its Corporate Social Responsibility, he added.

Apart from the above, shortly all MTNL 2G and 3G Mobile service users in JNU would also be able to make unlimited free calls to each other. The operator will provide Wi Fi Broadband service the students at very affordable charges of Rs.199 per month in place of Rs. 599.

Minister of State for Communications & IT, Mr.Sachin Pilot and the Vice-Chancellor of JNU, Shri B. B. Bhattacharya during a meeting in connection with Comprehensive Telecom & IT Connectivity, a collaborative initiative between MTNL & JNU

iBibo Ties up with MTS, Launches Gaming & Voice Based VAS

Posted: 25 Jun 2010 11:19 PM PDT

South African Naspers and Chinese Tencent owned ibibo.com, a social networking site focused to India has made a tie up with Indian mobile operator MTS India to offer social networking for MTS MBlaze customers.

Currently MTS MBlaze website showing MTS Action Zone including Gaming Zone and Music Zone which are made specially for MTS customers as a promotion of ibibo. But browsing ibibo from MTS MBlaze is not currently free as Yahoo India, Wikipedia, MakeMyTrip, IndiaTimes Shopping and CricInfo are.

Apart from this development ibibo has launched a new feature called 'MyVoice' which enables users to post voice status updates directly from their phones irrespective of GPRS enabled or not. This service is very simple – first register your mobile phone with this service, and to record and upload the voice status SMS 'RECORD BEEP' to 58247 or 5676746. Or you can just click one link on web. SMS will cost Rs3/SMS from most of the operators.

After that they will receive an incoming call from ibibo asking to record their message like voice mail. The audio of recorded message will be uploaded as a new 'beep' on ibibo immediately with a status of "I have recorded a new voice beep on ibibo. To listen, sms PLAYBEEP <code given by ibibo> to 5676746 or go to link given by ibibo". As per my personal experience this service is cool enough to attract new users to ibibo, as Indian social networking sites like Zapak, Bigadda, IndyaRocks are not as par with Facebook or Orkut here.

Ibibo also launched Group SMS over the past couple of months. It allows users to create and subscribe to groups, enabling one-to-many and many-to-many SMS. Ibibo hosts some most popular online social gaming like “The Great Indian Parking Wars” and “Teen Patti“.

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