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Happy Diwali to everyone! Play safe and keep the pollution levels down!

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The Forum description says: I have edited the forum title accordingly to avoid confusion. It will be split later into 2 forums, for network and handsets seperately.

Yeah, its called "Tune Catcher" for AirTel.

Press Trust of India 21 Oct 2008, 1812 hrs IST Anil Ambani-promoted Reliance Communications has entered into a strategic alliance with IT giants Acer, Asus, HCL, Intel and Lenovo to offer free laptops with internet connectivity to customers. The scheme will enable customers to get free laptops powered by Intel's "Atom" with high-speed internet data card service of Reliance, RCom's president, Mahesh Prasad said on Tuesday. "The growth of internet services in India is one of the key visions of Reliance Communications. The next phase of growth of internet penetration in the country is linked to the growth in PC and Laptop penetration," Prasad said. Customers can avail the package with monthly installment as low as Rs 1,500 per month for two years, Prasad said.

There is no universal code. It will very depending upon the make and model number of the handset.

LG RD 2030 is one of them, good old one

yeah, I think so, looks interesting. I noticed suddenly that someone had added it when I was browsing the forum yesterday night. Looks like Indra was playing around with it.

Happy Birthday Ashok!!!

So that is just a spike. I've seen that sometimes such high speeds logged in download managers especially when you start a download.

What is the average speed that you get? say download something for 10 minutes and check the average speed.

^^^ May be within next 6 months my dear friend. Regards. maybe not that long as it will be a nationwide launch. hopefully it will be on December 28th itself

19 Feb, 2008, 1651 hrs IST Press Trust of India Reliance Communications and HDFC Bank on Tuesday announced the launch of country's first virtual credit card. The virtual card will do away with the need to physically carry the credit card and would allow mobile phones to double as a payment instrument. Reliance mobile customers can now participate in the mobile credit card evolution. This is another step towards making mobile commerce a reality in India, Mahesh Prasad, President, Applications Group, Reliance Communications told reporters here. Presently, the facility would be available to HDFC Bank credit cardholders, who are also Reliance mobile subscribers. A top bank official said HDFC bank has about 35 lakh cardholders and given that RComm has about 40 per cent market share in the mobile market an estimated 15 lakh people would be able to use the new facility. The tie-up between the bank and Reliance is not exclusive and over a period of time other banks and other mobile operators would also launch this facility. It could become a preferred way of making payment in future as it does away with the risks associated with carrying cards and revealing its details at merchant establishments. Security and convenience are two major benefits of the new facility, he said. "Although HDFC mPay facility is currently available only to the Reliance Mobile phone users, we would in future tie-up with other Indian cellular operators too. Since over 84% of our banking transactions are currently routed through the alternate banking channels, mPay is expected to expand our credit card base across the country.", he added. The Reliance 'mPay' credit card allows users to make postpaid bill payments, get pre-paid top-up, and pay Reliance Energy monthly electricity bills. Users don't need to enter a card number or card verification value (CVV) or expiry date to be able to use the 'mPay' service. HDFC Bank would authenticate all the information with RCom, which would then be used to initiate and authorize all payments using customers' mobile handsets. The service is extended further to allow users book movie- and travel- tickets, make payments at shops and restaurants, and shop on the Internet. RCom claims there isn't any financial risk involved in the event users lose their mobile phones; the reason being 'mPay' is PIN-protected. To use the service and make payments, customers need to use the same PIN that is issued them at the time of issue of the virtual credit card. CN Ram, head - information technology, HDFC Bank said, "The mPay platform eliminates the necessity to use a plastic credit card since the mobile handset itself acts as a virtual credit card with no separate card number provided as card holder's mobile number suffices the requisite customer identification details. The new payment concept thus offers hassle free transactions in a more secured environment since there is no need to enter credit card details while making payments. It also thus eliminates the card skimming and related fraud risks." Internationally, this technology was introduced only a couple of years ago and has been a great success in countries like South Korea, Japan and Philippines, Prasad added.

LiveMint.com Saturday, Oct 11 2008. 12:48 AM IST In what could trigger a trademark battle, the Reliance-Anil Dhirubhai Ambani Group (R-Adag) has applied in India to register a trademark on ‘I PHONE’—a brand name that sounds exactly like Apple Inc.’s popular mobile phone. A trademark is a word or mark that indicates ownership of a product or service and is legally reserved for use bythe owner. Reliance Communications has applied for the trademark under several registration categories. According to India’s trademarks office’s website, RCom had filed its applications on 27 March 2007—coincidentally a month after Cisco Systems Inc., the world’s biggest maker of computer networking equipment, and the original owner of the iPhone name, settled a case with Apple over the use of the brand. Cisco had registered the name in 2000 and had sued Apple for using the brand name in January 2007. Generally, it takes months to more than a year for the Indian trademark office to go through the applications and open it up for public scrutiny. The RCom trademark application was made public in mid-September and published on the website of India’s Controller General of Patents, Design and Trademark on 9 October. This comes barely weeks after the launch of the Apple iPhone models in India in association with two top mobile service providers, Bharti Airtel Ltd and Vodafone Essar Ltd, in late August. RCom’s application under class 41 of Indian trademark registrations, sought it under “education, providing of training, entertainment, sports and cultural activities” and class 16 under categories including paper, cardboard and goods made from these, book-binding materials, photographs, stationery, artistic materials, paint brushes and playing cards, among others. Apple spells its brand ‘iPhone’ while RCom proposes to use a capital ‘I’ and has a character-wide gap between ‘I’ and ‘PHONE’. The second word is spelt in capital letters in the class 41 filing. The application for class 16 is ‘i phone’—all in lower case. In addition to class 41 and 16, RCom has also applied to trademark ‘Reliance i phone’ in class 38 that deals in “telecommunication services” as well as under class 9 that concerns “manufacturing and trading in apparatus for recording, transmission or reproduction of sound or images; magnetic data carriers including but not limited” to fixed wireless phones and terminals. “Filing for trademark registration under different nomenclature is a routine organizational practice to ensure brand-name flexibility on future product road-maps of our company,” an RCom spokesperson said by email. A legal expert said RCom’s attempt could run into roadblocks since the iPhone name is strongly associated with Apple’s product. “If I mention ‘I phone’, it should be associated with Reliance...that’s the kind of evidence they require” to be able to secure a trademark, said New Delhi-based trademark attorney Neil Mason. It is unclear whether Apple has applied or registered the iPhone trademark in India. An Apple spokeswoman in Singapore said she has no comment to offer “at this point”. Any objections to the RCom application has to be made within three-four months, trademark lawyers say. “The fact that Reliance has applied for two (separate applications) possibly means that they have been advised that: ‘Look Reliance I phone at the strength of Reliance will go through’,” said Mason. R-Adag is also locked in a trademark dispute where a group firm applied to register “Reliance Big Bazar”. It was opposed by the country’s largest publicly traded retailer, Pantaloon Retail (India) Ltd, that owns a chain of popular supermarkets branded Big Bazaar. Trademark lawyers say it generally takes about two years to resolve a trademark dispute in India. Meanwhile, the opposing party could move it to a court for a stay or injunction on trademark misuse.

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TRAI? DoT? What can they do? Even FBI couldn't do anything against these international fraudsters until now.

ICICI complains to cops about rumours DNA India, Monday, October 13, 2008 04:09 IST Going all-out to retain the trust of investors and customers, ICICI Bank on Sunday approached the police alleging certain brokers with a Mumbai-based brokerage house were indulging in “malicious” rumour mongering to raise doubts about its financial health. Calling it economic terrorism, an ICICI Bank spokesman said: “We will be approaching all regulators including SEBI on this.” In its complaints filed with the economic offences wings of police in Mumbai and Coimbatore, the bank said that a broker or sub-broker in the Tamil Nadu city was sending SMSes creating panic among depositors, causing withdrawals. Over the last few days, ICICI bank has been facing an onslaught of rumours that the global economic crisis had triggered a liquidity crunch in the country’s biggest private sector bank. On Saturday, the bank sent SMSes assuring its depositors that their money was safe. It also released advertisements in newspapers asking its customer not to listen to “baseless rumours.” Senior bank officials went into a huddle, holding meetings for most of Sunday even as the corporate communications department was working overtime. They finally decided to file the police complaints to counter the rumours. ICICI Bank scrips have lost half its value in the last one month and the current value per share is Rs365 — lowest in the last three years. On Friday, the bank’s shares lost 28% of their previous day’s value during early trade and were down 20% by the end of day’s trading. ICICI Bank managing director KV Kamath has already talked to finance minister P Chidambaram about the vested interests who are deliberately hammering down the share prices and has sought a proper investigation from SEBI. “The concerted effort to spread malicious rumours could be [a] new form of economic terrorism (akin to how counterfeit currency is put into circulation to lower the public faith and confidence, and cause national economic interests to be compromised),” the bank complaint says. According to the complaint, one of the SMSes read: “Kindly withdraw all your deposits and cash in account with ICICI Bank as ICICI Bank already rushed to RBI for insolvency.” The rumours were also spread about top management selling shares of the bank, creating panic in the share market, the complaint alleges. It cited an SMS that read: “icici top officials r all sellng thr icici holdings in mkt 4 lst 2 wks. Thy knw that icici is going to annnce vry bad bankruptcy soon. This is confirmed news from 1 of its board drctrs. exit all ur holding in icici n all bnk stks. kamath also selling his binami holdings from 750 levels (sic).” The private sector lender alleges that a bear cartel of certain high-profile brokers in the Bombay Stock Exchange, who have been selling the shares, stocks and securities of the bank for quite some time, may also have been behind the circulation of the malicious rumours about its financial status. The bank had conducted preliminary investigation using its own machinery to find the source of such misleading statements, e-mails and SMSes based on false information, the complaint said. The complaint added that such a message was found to be sent by a massgroup SMS sending website called www.smsgupshup.com & Maya news, having membership strength of 15,480. The bank has been maintaining that it is well capitalised. The capital adequacy is over 13% against the regulatory requirement of 9 per cent, the bank claims. ICICI admits that there have been sporadic withdrawals from ATMs but also adds that it has enough funds to meet customer requirements for now More than 70% of ICICI shares have been held by foreign institutional investors, but the bank refuses to blame foreign funds for the fall. “Foreign funds dominate the whole market and are pulling out investments from across the stock market for some time and that is affecting the market as a whole,” a bank spokesperson said.

If you can hold for long term like 5 years or so, then defenitely buy. This suggestion is applicable for any stock at this time. What say Sadik?

Yes, stock market prices are dependant on rumours, especially in a country like India. How will a bank survive when everyone will withdraw the money?

People from all over the world seems to have got this hoax message: http://board.classifieds1000.com/Kenya/Bus..._TOYOTA_VEHICLE simple, they can make money by fooling you. They will ask you to send the shipping charge for sending the vehicle from Keyna to India. They will get that money and you get nothing in return.

That is 13 kBps (108 kbps) which is too good speed on a GPRS connection. It sure is EDGE service, which actually has better speed capability than CDMA 1x. I haven't seen much good speed with AirTel's EDGE, so Idea's GPRS/EDGE seems to be much better. I guess it will be a good idea for you to stick with Idea itself.