commonman

Just for the records, vKewl (Huawei C5330) is available since the launch of Virgin. In Nov, the price was reduced by Rs.500. (no offence to Kamal Bhai) The new set also seems Huawei Made. but model no. is not clear.

BSNL EVDO data card supports both EVDO and 1x connectivity. It gives EVDO speeds if EVDO towers are available, other-wise 1x speeds which are similar to R-Connect. Further, speed also depends on the distance from the nearest EVDO tower. For anyone staying within 1 KM aerial distance, speed is excellent. Beyond that signal strength starts to drop. Since, its wireless, there is of course ups and downs in the speed and its not constant as in the case of wired Broadband. But BSNL EVDO is better than the 128 kbps connections given by most pvt. players in the name of broadband any day.

BSNL is already offering EVDO in several parts of the country including Rajarhat area of Kolkata. Cost 550 p.m. speed 1.8 mbps use unlimited only drawback - no roaming outside SDCA

BSNL has offered 20% discount to Central/State Govt & PSU employees on both new and existing Broadband connections (rental+usage) w.e.f. 1.12.2008 on continuous basis. 20% discount on Broadband Service charges (usage and rental) for Broadband connections provided to Central Government/ State Government/ PSU Employees category. The scheme is to be launched from 1st December 2008 across BSNL network and is a continuous scheme. The serving and retired government employees applying for Broadband connection under this scheme, should furnish an undertaking countersigned by their Drawing and Disbursing Officer regarding their bonafide along with the application. In case of retired employees, an attested copy of the Pension Pay Order should be submitted along with the application. The application should be marked as “FOR GOVERNMENT EMPLOYEES SCHEME”. The scheme is also applicable to existing Broadband customers who are serving/retired government employees subject to their furnishing an undertaking as detailed above., if they apply, from the month of such application. official link: http://www.bsnl.co.in/newsdetailed.php?news_id=437

seems no WiFi also

even BSNL provides similar service

Make sure u get a signed final settlement letter from the bank stating that all outstanndiong of ur acc. has been settled

TYhey have now moved from killing the common people to taking high profile persons hostage. Yet it seems they were careful enough not to kill any Americans, as for the American Govt., the death of 500 indians is "Internal Issue" but the death of even a single American is a "war against USA". What is disturbing is that in Delhi as well as Mumbai, sp[ecialist cops were eliminated. Seems now the millitants are developing their own brand of "encounter specialists".

Virgin uses Tata network only.

VBYTES is for accessing on the handset. not for using as a modem with ur PC/laptop. however, the techies can help if theres a way to overcome that problem. @SRK006 no i'm not using virgin, but just happened to follow their website and this forum closely and one of my friend uses virgin.

D88 had issues in WAP and Modem functions. hope SPICE had rectified them this time.

Its HUAWEI C5330 handset and was available for quite some time @ 3999. so basically they have reduced the cost by 500. But this set has driver issues. Samsung Explore (vSleek) @ 2999 is better any day. Earlier internet was free on virgin as they were not decided on tariff. so they were not advertising the Modem function of vkewl and v sleek. now they r asking 60p per minute.

G-Talk is still to have group-chat which is available in the web-version. on the other hand the file tfr option is available only in g-talk but not in web-version. there is a need to make both options function equally

From the site it appears that the scheme requires the customer to provide authorisation for direct debit to Bank A/c or Credit Card. Don't know how many would agree to that condition.

So whats the deal? is it 904 HA or 701?

Yes. I presume it's 30 min per day. Then it works out to (30+3)*30 i.e. 990 Min STD + all local call @ 50p/min for about 152rs / mth

The scheme works out more like this, If All Call@ 50ps/Min (Local+STD) And U Pay 1rs/Min For First 3mins Local and 1.50rs/Min for First 3mins STD It Means Cost 4.50rs Extra Per Day 4.50*30Days= 135rs Extra+12.36% Tax=151.68rs cost per month for all calls @ 50p

What channels are on offer for the north? The website seems not updated with the Mega/Ultra plans or the Top-ups.

For the last 1 week, the biggest complain of all ICICI customers is that the bank is not putting enough cash in their ATMs. One needs to go to atleast 4 ATMs before getting cash. So whats the use of such services when even the basic banking service is not fully provided.

What does it mean for the lay user?

800 mAh for dual sim is extremely inadequate.

EVDO is being rolled out by BSNL in a phased manner. So u need to physically go to your nearest Exchange and check. But BSNL EVDO card is linked to landline no. and would work only within the SDCA.

The advantage is free unlimited data plan and unlimited on-net AND OFF-NET calls. For similar payment in Reliance (My Truly Unlimited Onnet:995 + Platimum data:1500) we get unlimited data and ONLY unlimited on-net calls and no unlimited offnet calls.

If the High Court upholds the imposition of VAT, all consumers should move Court to the effect that since the recharge vouchers including talktime has been considered as Goods they do not fall under the category of Services and hence the levy of 12% service tax is illegal. So only 4% VAT instead of 12% Service Tax should be charged.

The VSleek offer is available on the Virgin Website for quite sometime. But the price quoted had been 4799 every time i have checked and it is 4799 even today. http://www.virginmobile.in/phones_special_offers_vsleek.html So was the price of 2999 a special "error" in the website for some specific time?