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forgot yo post the cdma experience. so I bought a Motorola droid maxx (GSM/CDMA single sim) and a reliance prepaid sim. There was no voice breaking, no call drop on any floor as against GSM network. Great relief for me. I have ported my number to reliance cdma with advance rental plan of 16999/-. Data speed in evdo is not more than 600 kbps.

http://economictimes.indiatimes.com/news/news-by-industry/telecom/tdsat-asks-for-vodafone-airtel-response-to-cartelisation-charges/articleshow/17615995.cms TDSAT asks for Vodafone, Airtel response to cartelisation charges NEW DELHI: TDSAT today directed Bharti Airtel and Vodafone to file their replies on maintainability of a petition filed by an NGO alleging that the telecom players were charging 10 paise SMS termination fee in a "cartelised manner". A single-member TDSAT bench of P K Rastogi asked both operators -- Bharti Airtel and Vodafone -- to file a short reply over NGO Telecom Watchdog's petition alleging that they "are doing this illegal activity in a cartelised manner". However, during the proceedings, counsel appearing for Vodafone questioned the maintainability of Telecom Watchdog's petition filed by its counsel Prashant Bhushan. The tribunal has asked the telecom operators to file their reply in three weeks and listed the matter on January 11, 2013 for hearing on its maintainability. Meanwhile, Telecom Disputes Settlement and Appellate Tribunal (TDSAT) dropped the name of TRAI from the matter after observing that NGO has claimed no relief from the sectoral regulator. The petitioner has submitted that it was "aggrieved by the inaction of the Respondent No 1 (TRAI) against the arbitrary decisions of the operators, who are all out to fix Termination Charges at 10 paisa per SMS by way of bilateral agreements with different operators that is detrimental to the interest of the consumers. "They are doing this illegal activity in a cartelised manner and are jointly exploiting TRAI's regulations that had put the IUC for SMS under 'forbearance'. The operators are converting 'forbearance' into a 'mandatory' provision under which all the operators henceforth must pay Termination charges of 10 paisa per SMS in a 'non-transparent' manner," the NGO had alleged. According to the NGO, some operators had come before TDSAT challenging termination charges, but they did not really "contest" the issue as it "suits their common objective" of hiking the tariffs to the consumers in a "uniform/cartelised manner". The NGO has requested the tribunal to "strike down any arrangement insisted upon by Respondents No 2 & 3 (Airtel and Vodafone) with any other UAS licensee in so far as it relates to the Termination Charges for SMS". It also requested to "issue directions to Respondents No 2 & 3 (Airtel and Vodafone)for continuing with bill-and-keep arrangement till TRAI fixes a reasonable cost based tariff for Termination Charge on SMS". Termination charges of Short Message Services (SMS) affects consumers directly and so far TRAI has fixed termination charges for voice calls only and not for messages. Termination charges are paid by an operator on whose network calls or SMSes originate to another operator on whose network these communications end. These charges have a direct bearing on SMS tariff. This is an amended petition. Earlier, the NGO had filed its petition seeking directions against TRAI. However, after amending it, the NGO added Bharti Airtel and Vodafone in it.

Times News Network Wednesday, January 17, 2007 02:33:58 AM The Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (Trai) has issued a notification whereby the accounting separation reports of mobile operators will have to be put on the net for the public to view. Consumers will now be able to inspect the costs, revenues and profits of mobile operators under different heads of services including basic, roaming and other value-added services. A regulation regarding the separation of accounts, indicating various components of cost, revenue and profit under different heads of services, was passed by Trai in 2004. Now, these accounts will be open for public scrutiny as these will be available online. Trai chairman Nripendra Mishra told ET: “The separation of accounts of mobile operators had been regulated by Trai earlier. All operators submit half yearly reports elaborating on the itemised expenditure and revenue. Now we want to place the highlights of these accounts on the public domain.” While listed companies such as Reliance, Bharti, Hutch-Essar and BSNL, among others, make their accounts public under Sebi rules, the regulation is likely to bring several small mobile operators under the public eye. Consumers will be able to review their costs of providing a service and compare it with the price of the service. In the case of roaming charges, for instance, the regulator has been contesting that the cost of the service is far lower than the price being paid for the service.