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I was talking abt RD2030. What abt u?

registering for a new site or anything is not a big deal.Whats important to understand is the scope of a new section. We were just thinking of a GSM Section, when we hit upon Blanksms.com Forums. I personally found it very good to associate with a GSM Discussion Board for RIMweb.com And thts how we got the two linked. According to me, Its pointless running a parallel forum for the same thing when 1 exists well enuf. Thts the reason, we asked Blanksms.com to switch its Reliance section off and link it to our forum. They were kind enuf to do that! GSM, unlike RIM is quite wide and deep in scope. And i feel, users of RIMweb.com can easily browse Blanksms.com and post their views and help it make a strong discussion board for all GSM devices and Tariffs. As of now, RIMweb.com's aim is to reach out to more n more RIM customers such that all are well-informed abt RIM. We are here to share our experiences and Grievances abt its services and get our way out of them! Rel Infocomm has loads of things planned ahead. And as of now, we want to restrict the scope of RIMweb to it. FLP and NETWAY are two big ventures in the pipe. We'll surely see a whole lot of people talking abt it as soon as it gets widely available!

Manoj Hope u have a gr8 day & a wonderful year ahead! u'll get ur gift from me soon! cya arnd!

Have u'll noticed this ever?? while deleting a msg, and it shows "ERASED" on the display and exactly at the same time, if ur phone rings, then the phone hangs The screen will keep displaying ERASED and the phone will keep ringing. You can do nothing abt it. Only option is to remove the battery! Worst is, u will never come to know who called up. The caller's no. is not even saved in the Missed Call List! Weird thing, isn't it?

where did u buy it from? Which city? And can u elaborate more on this handset features?

HAPPY DIWALI to ALL @ RIMweb.com !

quite informative Krinix! Keep going! Would love to know, wht RIM is doing to improve efficiency amongst its CC & WW executives?

ALL Local Calls are FREE ! U can understand whtever u want. But its sure that Calls to GSM/WLL/Landlines are FREE !! Isn't that wonderful? Link

RIM Demolishes Talk-Time Concept - Storms Prepaid Market with Free Unlimited Local Calls - Yet another bonanza from Reliance Infocomm - Revolutionary Pre-paid Voucher of Rs 440 - Local Calls to any Reliance number, absolutely free - All other calls within circle @ 80 paise only - Families, businessmen, couples and friends can now talk to heart's content DAKC (Dhirubhai Ambani Knowledge City), Navi Mumbai, October 28, 2004 In a revolutionary move demolishing the very concept of Talk Time in prepaid mobile telephony, Reliance Infocomm has launched an unprecedented prepaid Recharge Voucher (RCV) of Rs 440-denomination that allows unlimited local calls to any Reliance mobile or fixed phone within the circle. The innovative Reliance Infocomm RCV is aimed at facilitating the large population of Reliance Infocomm subscribers who have heavy usage for local calls and wish to stay in touch with other Reliance Infocomm subscribers within their circle. Under the Rs 440 RCV, tariff for calls to other mobile and fixed phones within the same circle is pegged down at 80 paise a minute, while tariff for STD calls remains unchanged. The Recharge Voucher is valid for 30 days from the date of recharge. Announcing the launch of the new scheme, S P Shukla, President - Products and Services, Reliance Infocomm, said: "The Rs 440 RCV will be immensely useful to the Reliance IndiaMobile community which will soon be 10-million strong. The RIM community can now freely stay in touch within the same circle without any concern of talk-time cost. This is yet another endeavour by the company to realize the founder Chairman Dhirubhai Ambani's dream of taking the benefits of mobile telephony to the common man." The new, value enhanced product will particularly be useful for small business personnel, entrepreneurs in multiple locations and travelling sales personnel, apart from families with more than one RIM connection. Also, families of a large number of students who stay out of the city for higher education could constantly be in touch with them without having to worry about talk time limitations. Reliance Infocomm Ltd., a Reliance group company, is India's largest mobile service provider with over nine million customers. Reliance Infocomm has established a pan-India, high-capacity, integrated (wireless and wire line) and convergent (voice, data and video) digital network, to offer services spanning the entire Infocomm value chain - infrastructure, services for enterprises and individuals, applications and consulting. The Reliance Group, founded by Shri Dhirubhai H. Ambani (1932-2002), is India's largest business house with total revenues of over Rs 99,000 crore (US$ 22.6 billion), cash profit of Rs 12,500 crore (US$ 2.8 billion), net profit of Rs 6,200 crore (US$ 1.4 billion) and exports of Rs 15,900 crore (US$ 3.6 billion).

thts the basic thing becoz of which MTNL is still where it is!! They need some tough Marketing guys! But the babus there wont let good ppl in! Btw, heres the thread that u shud read b4 u go for this connection!

Good for only those who have never surfed at good speeds!

Check up this link or call 1500 from ur MTNL Landline for details! I am not able to find the RIMweb thread where this discussion was happening. I'll keep looking for it

will let Arun and Ashok know abt it soon. Guess they'd be able to rectify it!

did they start giving more space? I still have the old 2mb limit! They promised to start alloting 250mb since sept, but its still not happened!

are they brand new ones or the refurbished ones??

India's Telecom Regulator Seeks Financial Autonomy November 4, 2004 BANGALORE, India -- India's telecommunication watchdog urged the government Thursday to give it financial autonomy by allowing it to receive a share of revenues from phone and television operators. The Telecom Regulatory Authority of India, or TRAI, said it wants 0.05 percent of the 700 billion rupees (US$15.45 billion; euro 12.11 billion) Indian phone and cable television operators earn each year. With such a levy, the authority would be able ``to meet its recurring expenditure and also have a provision for capital expenditure,'' it said in a statement. TRAI, currently funded by the government, regulates private and government-run telecommunication companies. Prabir Pukayastha, an analyst with the Delhi Science Forum, a non-governmental organization, said a regulator funded by such levies, rather than government grants or aid from multilateral agencies, could operate with greater independence. India's telecom sector is booming, with the number of mobile and landline phone users in this country of more than 1 billion people rising to 8 percent in September from 4 percent in mid-2002. More than 40 million homes also have access to cable television. India's phone operators have a combined revenue of 550 billion rupees (US$12.14 billion; euro 9.52 billion), while cable operators earn 150 billion rupees (US$3.31 billion; euro 2.6 billion) a year.

Tatas outwit Reliance once more Nandini Lakshman | November 06, 2004 Rediff.com Last year when the Boca Raton headquartered industrial conglomerate Tyco International announced plans to shed its ailing submarine cable business, its investment bank Goldman Sachs invited competitive bids. It was only natural that many of the enthusiastic contenders were companies that Tyco had partnered. High on the list was domestic telecom major, the Rs 3,163 crore (Rs 31.63 billion) Videsh Sanchar Nigam Ltd. At that time, Tyco's cable construction arm was building VSNL's Chennai-Singapore cable link. So in March, when Goldman's Indian affiliate, Kotak Mahindra Capital Co, touched base with VSNL's 46 per cent owner -- the Tata Group's top brass -- for a possible acquisition of Tyco Global Network, it didn't come as a big surprise. And in May, according to sources close to the deal, when the Tata Group assigned the mandate to its investment bank DSP Merrill Lynch, both the parties worked to pull off perhaps the most value-for-money acquisition they had ever partnered. Today, the Tata bosses lay the credit squarely on Arun Agarwal, 32, head of telecom investment banking at DSP. Agarwal, who moved in after an eight-year stint with global consulting firm McKinsey, and helped set up the telecom business for a large CDMA player, had vigorously hammered down TGN's $2.5 billion billing. "The high billing was done during the euphoria days. But with technology changing dramatically, supply exceeded demand, leaving enough room to negotiate," says Agarwal. Adds a Tata manager close to the deal, "Finally, for us, it was like buying my boss' Rs 80-lakh S-class Mercedes for Rs 400,000." That's because if the Tatas were to set up that kind of network, with 12 gateway city connectivity and 30 global points of presence, it would have to shell out nothing short of the original bid price of $2.5 billion. Fortunately for the Tatas, TGN's business was one of the casualties of the dotcom bubble, which very nearly sounded the death knell for Tyco, under its erstwhile chief executive, Dennis Kozolowski. Anointed one of the top five mergers & acquisition deals in India, it ranks behind Reliance Infocomm's January acquisition of UK-based Flag Telecom for $211 million. Now, with more than 60,000 km of an under-sea fibre optic cable network, spanning three continents, it will rule the waves across the trans-Atlantic, trans-Pacific, trans-America, western Europe and the Far East including Japan. Says Kishor Chaukar, managing director of Tata Industries, "The Tata Group now has telecom and information technology capabilities. With this deal, no one can beat us." An empty boast? Not really. With Sunday's $130 million acquisition of TGN, the Tata Group had once again edged out Reliance Infocomm. The other contender was Phoenix-based Pivotal Private Equity, owner of Network Solutions. The Tatas had earlier breasted the tape against Reliance in January 2002, when it picked up the initial 26 per cent stake in the government-owned VSNL for Rs 1,439 crore (Rs 14.39 billion). At that time, the Tatas bid for VSNL through Panatone Finvest, a special purpose vehicle, where the group's main companies had stakes. Both Tata Power and Tata Sons had a 40 per cent stake each with the balance shared equally between Tata Industries and Tata Steel. This time though, the Rs 600 crore (Rs 6 billion) acquisition, to be wrapped up over the next six - nine months, will be funded through internal accruals via yet another SPV. At the moment, with cash reserves of Rs 1,600 crore (Rs 16 billion), it expects around Rs 1,000 crore (Rs 10 billion) income from the sale of investments in Intelsat and New Sky Satellites. The new entity will be housed under VSNL America, overseen by the Singapore-based Vinod Kumar, VSNL (executive director) for international business. He was earlier senior vice president Asia Netcom and CEO of global telecom major, Worldcomm Japan. Again, TGN, with a global footprint, has more than a 10-fold unlit fibre capacity, as what's operational is barely 5-10 per cent of that, say telecom analysts. According to a Tata manager, Tyco's unlit capacities across just the Pacific and Atlantic total around 11,000 gigabits, throwing up huge opportunities for VSNL. Says Chaukar, "We will be a big global wholesaler of bandwidth and big in communication solutions to select people." Then, VSNL gets Tyco's large data carrier clients who are mostly Fortune 500 companies. It also absorbs TGN's 200 employees pushing up VSNL's current 1,800 headcount. Clearly, the acquisition comes at a time when the Tata bosses have been making statements about wanting "VSNL to be a telecom supermarket". Only two months ago, Tata Group chairman, Ratan Tata, had said: "We want to offer end-to-end quality services to corporates in the spheres of voice and data apart from video." It also comes close on the heels of the Tata Group's crown jewel -- Tata Consultancy Services -- which went public on July 29. Moreover, its arch rival Reliance acquired Flag telecom only early this year giving it a 50,000km long cable network. In all this, just how important is TCS in VSNL's current game plan? "Very vital. VSNL has a great opportunity in telecom. If we have to give substantial high value-added service to clients, the synergistic advantages with TCS are very high," reveals Chaukar. Like what? VSNL will leverage TCS' telecom solutions practice. Today, according to a TCS manager, after banking & financial services and manufacturing, the telecom practice is the third largest contributor to TCS' Rs 6,000 crore (Rs 60 billion) revenues: TCS sells data solutions to corporates all around the world. "With data originating and ending with IT, VSNL can latch on to the same clients to sell bandwidth," says a telecom expert. Reveals a senior Tata manager: "Today, Microsoft is a TCS client and we provide bandwidth connectivity from the American giant's Seattle headquarters to its Bangalore office. For the rest of its requirements, Microsoft has to depend on other partners. Now we can go to our clients and say that apart from solutions, we can give you end-to-end connectivity with VSNL." VSNL can piggyback on TCS in more ways than one. The latter already has a foot in the door at many global companies, liasing with their chief investment officers. Now, as a wholesaler of bandwidth, VSNL's point of contact too will have to be the CIO. "This way, we will be a one-stop shop for our customers," says Chaukar. Adds N Srinath, VSNL's director operations: "The agreement is a major step forward in our ongoing drive to offer our enterprise and carrier customers seamless, end-to-end telecommunications solutions that encircle the globe." Three days ago, he was in Singapore to flag off the Tata Indicom cable network connecting Chennai to Singapore. These efforts have no doubt enthused the markets. Since the announcement on Monday, the VSNL scrip has moved from Rs 172.60 to close on Thursday at Rs 185. Analysts says that while they are happy with the long term prospects for VSNL, the short term is not clear. "We still don't know how it will impact its revenues in the near future," says an analyst. Already, VSNL's once flagship international telephony business is gradually taking a back seat. Revenues from this business are down from 90 per cent from its government monopoly days to 60 per cent now. Other businesses like national long distance, Internet services and television uplinking services are on the upswing. Even so, VSNL's marketing expertise will be tested to the hilt. Already, overcapacity and price wars have pushed global outfits like Global Crossing and 360 Networks into oblivion. Tyco too was on the brink of collapse. Can the Tatas make a dent here? "In this activity, marketing is critical. Our efforts at this stage are mostly 'direct' in nature," says Kumar. It is addressing a focussed group of around 1,500 companies and around 50 carriers where the communication is personalised and customised. "We are establishing ourselves as a thought leader and 'subject matter expert' on the topic of telecommunication in India. We want to help customers recognise that VSNL is a progressive organisation that has evolved and continues to grow in many areas," he adds. When that happens, VSNL will have finally shed its founding legacy.

Did any1 notice this?? Jus wondering how it would have been!

And are they RIM promoted ones? or third party stuff?

Oh sorry! I forgot to mention a lil step. u got to Press OK till it reaches the SEND TO thing again. Then press CALL and there u go. Anyways, i've been exactly doing what shabooo mentioned for saving a msg and then setting 'DR" or "Deffered upto" .. thts the best way to assign a msg the required variables!

I6networks.com , Tripod.com , or maybe even that Yahoo Geocities.com could do ! there r plenty avl out there.

yippie!! MTNL already provides a Free Calls WLL Phone. This one shud be amazing as well!!

my immediate suggestion wud be BPL ! Orange n Airtel have been having issues wid network and balance these days, quite often! If u get TRUMP, lay three hands over it, not jus two! While goin back home, give it to me

I guess my Phone's haunted too Had experienced this only once on my RD2030 !! Seems, i've been talking too much on the phone!

Never bothered looking at the WWE. Now i think i shud! Or are those panels, non-RIM stuff?