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- India Adds 14.5 Million GSM Subscribers in March – Vodafone Leads
- Tata Docomo SmartPicks Offer Extends to Sony, Dell, Acer, HTC, LG,Motorola
- Vodafone Revamps GPRS Plans – Launches Long Validity GPRS Packs
- DOT Ban’s Nokia’s Pushmail Service Over Security Concerns
- BSNL Gets 1 Lakh MNP Port In Requests- Intros ‘VENNELA MATCH’ Plan
| India Adds 14.5 Million GSM Subscribers in March – Vodafone Leads Posted: 15 Apr 2011 06:51 AM PDT
Cellular Operators Association of India (COAI) today released the GSM subscriber base for March 2011 and, quite expectantly, new additions continue at an average growth rate. The total 14.5 million new GSM subscribers being added in March at a monthly growth rate of 2.61% taking the all-India GSM cellular subscriber base to 559.55 million. Among the GSM Mobile Service Operators, Bharti Airtel notched up 3.20 million new subscribers during the month, taking its total base to 162 million. While India’s national telecom backbone and Pan India 3G Mobile service operator Bharat Sanchar Nigam Ltd (BSNL) added up 1.3 million new users in March-2011, taking its total subscriber base to 86.4 million. Idea Cellular added 2.7 million new customers, boosting its subscriber base to 89.5 million, while Aircel increased its base by over 1.3 million customers to take its subscriber base to 54.8 million. Mahanagar Telephone Nigam Ltd (MTNL) added 20,720 new users during the month, boosting its total base to 5.19 million at the end of March, 2011. Uninor, one of the youngest GSM operators in India has added 1.2mn GSM subscriber while Videocon added 5,41,877 subscribers and STel managed just 1,28,429 new subscribers from 5 circles. Etisalat DB/Cheers Mobile 3,15,709 added subscribers in 13 circles.
Please note : COAI GSM Subscriber base does not include the Reliance GSM base and Tata Docomo subscriber Base (same not submitted to COAI). | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Tata Docomo SmartPicks Offer Extends to Sony, Dell, Acer, HTC, LG,Motorola Posted: 15 Apr 2011 12:17 AM PDT
This offer is applicable for both Prepaid and Postpaid users. Customer can walk in to any Tata docomo outlet or can call on 18002660000 (for the post pay users) and get this amazing offer at your door step. Video Calling has Handset dependency and may not work if your handset does not support it. 3G offer is applicable in the towns where TATA DOCOMO 3G service is available. Consumer Offer on Smart Picks – 3G smart phones
Video Calling & Mobile TV has Handset dependency and may not work if your handset does not support it. 3G services – handset compatibility Table:
Post the free mins of usage of video calls, customer will be charged @ 5ps/sec(Rs 3/min) and data access charges @ 10ps/10 kb. Voice and SMS charges on both prepaid and post pay applicable as per the selected tariff plan. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Vodafone Revamps GPRS Plans – Launches Long Validity GPRS Packs Posted: 14 Apr 2011 11:12 PM PDT
Vodafone’s 2G GPRS now comes with Vodafone Mobile Connect (VMC) access where in customer can browse Internet in their mobile phone as well as in Laptop/PC by using mobile as modem. The new VMC packs comes with flexible benefits for prepaid customers who can now choose from an array of GPRS/VMC offerings at attractive rates starts from Rs.4 with daily 40 MB Free data usage. Vodafone also launches long validity GPRS/VMC Packs for Rs.345 and Rs.645, valid for 180 days and 365 days which offers 9 GB and 18 GB Free Data usage respectively. The operator also renovated its existing GPRS/VMC offerings for those who wish to access GPRS services for limited period, can go for Rs.4, Rs.14 and Rs.55 and Rs.98, one to 30 days plan, offering free usage for up to 40 MB to 3 GB downloads respectively.
Note : In some telecom circles FREE DATA USAGE or Recharge Value of VMC may be different from above mention plans, So call 111 from your Vodafone to know about circles specific VMC Plans. Usage charges are calculated on a 10KB pulse. That is, the charge will be calculated by rounding off the data usage to the nearest amount next to 10KB. For example, 16KB of usage will be treated as 20KB. Usage charges beyond free data will be 10p / 10KB. Thanks! to Saurabh Mendiratta | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| DOT Ban’s Nokia’s Pushmail Service Over Security Concerns Posted: 14 Apr 2011 08:37 AM PDT
This ban comes at a time when Blackberry services are under the government's scanner due to the security related issue for not providing a solution to intercept its Enterprise mail services. TOI reports nearly 50 per cent of Nokia's E Series business phones sold in the country get activated for e-mails.These developments came at a time when the home ministry has asked the telecom and IT departments to overhaul existing legal frameworks to broaden the meaning of telecom/internet services. At present Nokia’s pushmail service supports major email service providers like Hotmail Yahoo and Gmail and various other leading email service providers. TOI also reports IT ministry have been asked by the home ministry to make necessary changes in Indian Telegraph Act of 1885, the Information Technology (Amendment) Act, 2007. Once the changes comes into place it will be necessary for all telecom service providers to have the systems in place to deliver authorised intercepts based on telephone numbers, device identity, email IDs, IP addresses or keywords to the national security agencies on real-time basis. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| BSNL Gets 1 Lakh MNP Port In Requests- Intros ‘VENNELA MATCH’ Plan Posted: 14 Apr 2011 07:53 AM PDT
If you remember, few days back we also reported on TelecomTalk that BSNL emerged as most preferred Mobile Service operator in Andhra Pradesh telecom Circle since the Launch of MNP in the state. To celebrates this achievement and grab more and more 2G and 3G subscribers, BSNL also launched new Prepaid Plan - ‘VENNELA-MATCH’ for 2G & 3G Mobile subscribers in Andhra Pradesh circles which offers lowest local, STD and Roaming calls, Free SMS and lot of other benefits. According to Mr. Rajeev Agarwal, CGMT , BSNL AP circle BSNL is doing exceedingly well under Mobile Number Portability (MNP) in Andhra Pradesh. There have been more than 74,000 migrations into BSNL GSM Network (2G/3G) from other operators while 24,000 users opted out of BSNL under MNP which has crossed over 1 lakh in port-in requests. This performance which not only continues to be the best amongst all the BSNL Circles, But is also making BSNL as the maximum net gainer amongst all the operators. BSNL AP circle has also seen a healthy increase in revenue and maintaining its highest rate of growth amongst all operators in AP in activations of new mobile connections. Mr Agrawal also said that in terms on next generation mobile services, BSNL 3G services has been well accepted in the AP market and has over 1.54 lakh 3G connections are active in AP. BSNL introduces one new prepaid plans for prospective 2G and 3G Mobile subscribers in Andhra Pradesh circle, dubbed as VENNELA-MATH which comes for 28 (2G) and Rs.24 (3G).
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