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Travel Charger! Oh thnx dudes, never knew tht! btw whts the difference between the two?? One fits into the data port and the other in the charging area! But then y is it called "Travel" Charger?

y dont u take a stroll at one of a LG service center and find out from them... am sure they'd be surprised by something like a make over of this sort And let us all also know how much this costs, maybe even i'll try it out... BTW that charger thing is really messy.. it dirties the back of the battery and hence only a new battery can change tht! How much does a new battery cost?

Nothing new! All the damn operators do things like these! its jus tht they tell in advance how much they shall charge after how much period... Reliance does not spell it out.. And it seems like a surprise... nothing more... Obviously they are goin to charge for every shiit they give with the phone, and tht the customer has to understand!

seems u went for a war with ur phone! dont u use covers etc for the phone? In mumbai i get it for as cheap as 15-20 bucks on the road and i change it every 1-2 months... and cell looks cleaner and newer each time

At the customer care... they say, alot depends on how charged is ur battery !! I feel its all crap... Its the handset prob! Simple...

If its windows theres ought to be a problem! Thanks to MS! Well if it works on ur frenz' comp and if it was working perfectly earlier and if its an original one, then wht i can see is tht ur OS is a problem... Reinstalling ur OS can only help i guess! Dont repair it or anything, simply format it and reinstall... I am too having tremendous trouble with my WIN XP... and i guess reinstalling it is the only solution!

dudes.. we weren't talking abt blocking all calls or something... We were talking abt blocking specific nos.! And tht i guess is possible only in Nokia Phones and none other... Post more info if u have on this matter... Read the thread carefully!

Theres no reasoning to all this.. Its just tht their billing systems are not upgraded! And here we curse reliance for their faulty billings! Those operators are legally extracting more money And their customers are not even bothered!! They dont know that such a thing exist tht CDMA and GSM are to be considered at par under new Unified Licensing Scheme! Atleast we are well informed

Oh this is cool! I dont want R-World anyways! Wish when i bought the handset there were more handsets without R-World compatibilities... then i would have got them cheaper... Anyways, i think, the services at R-World shall improve coz there would be fewer ppl hanging around there and those who get in will get faster access too! PREMIUM SERVICE = PREMIUM PRICE >>> Doesn't suit my pocket though

any travel buffs here?? Did any one read this? Cruise holidays charm Indians I'd be there one day for sure... its the best way to escape! Would ya join me?

whts DATA BAUD? and y is the option of DATA/FAX in LG2030?

IOC, BSNL join hands to take on Reliance Cross-selling agreement will cover 1,000 IOC outlets Business Standard :: Bangalore Published : March 19, 2004 Indian Oil Corporation (IOC) and Bharat Sanchar Nigam Ltd (BSNL) today launched a cross-marketing exercise which will cover 1,000 IOC outlets by August as part of the companies’ strategy to compete with rival Reliance which has interests in petroleum and telecommunications. In subsequent phases the scheme will be extended to more outlets of IOC and its subsidiary IBP. Indian Oil retail outlets will stock and sell various BSNL products such as the pre-paid STD/ISD card, internet telephone card, internet access card and cellphone recharge coupon. SIM cards, which are sold through channel partners and are currently in short supply, will not be sold through petrol stations initially. In return for this, BSNL will help IOC achieve connectivity along highways and through its retail network. As part of the exercise, the two organisations and Chennai-based eLogistics have entered into an agreement to offer low-cost real-time truck tracking facility to fleet owners using IOC fleet cards. The tracking system will use BSNL’s GSM network and require the installation of a device on trucks. The device will send SMS signals at predetermined intervals from the nearest BSNL tower. These signals will be recorded and decoded by eLogistics’ back-end application server and generate data which can be accessed and interpreted by fleet operators through a designated website. As a result of this cross selling exercise, Indian Oil expects to generate 10 per cent additional sales at its retail outlets where the BSNL products are sold and BSNL hopes to raise the sale of its cards/coupons by as much as 25 per cent, according to the spokesmen of the two companies.

Reliance outsources voice mail from PEC Telecom Technologies, will provide its telecom voice mail solution, 'VoiceSaver' to Reliance for its WLL platform Zia Askari :: CIOL News Friday, March 19, 2004 NEW DELHI: US based telecom solution provider PEC Telecom Technologies with its Indian entity based in New Delhi is gearing itself up to provide its telecom voice mail solution – ‘VoiceSaver’ to Mumbai based telecom major, Reliance. "We are going to provide our voice mail solution - VoiceSaver to Reliance for its WLL platform. We will be providing close to one million voice mail boxes initially, but this number will depend on the demand of this service as we move forward. We are likely to start the proceedings towards this end within two months," informed CEO for PEC’s Indian operations Chaman Kapoor. VoiceSaver operates as an auto attendant or as a voice mail system and is already used by many industries such as voice mail service bureaus, radio paging companies, news service bureaus, etc. globally. "It integrates with most of the PBX's and Central Office Switches. Reliance has identified two server locations in India, where this product will be installed initially. However, Reliance has not disclosed these locations to us. Ideally this would be installed at the metros first," Kapoor added. Speaking on the storage capacity of the solution, he said that the system is quite flexible when it comes to storing data. "The storage capability of this product depends on the storage capacity at the operator’s level," he added. Founded in 1984, Parwan Electronics Corporation is a US based player focusing on the voice processing industry. "Our software is designed to run on multiple platforms including MS-DOS and Microsoft Windows 95/98/Me or Windows NT/2000. This is the reason why the company’s products are successfully running in North & South America, Asia, Eastern & Western Europe, as well as in Africa," Kapoor explained.

did they really manage to get these many webworlds? well i guess they set up these new webworlds only in new cities where there weren't any... Thts the reason probs i cant see many in mumbai! Its damn bugging to visit the webworlds coz its always congested...!

Read this carefully... This is something real serious! Are the customers being really fooled by their operators in the name of ADC? To hell with the customer Sunil Jain Rediff.com February 09, 2004 http://in.rediff.com/money/2004/feb/09guest.htm Till some months ago, telecom czars like Sunil Mittal and Asim Ghosh appeared the epitome of concerned corporates, waging a battle with the government on behalf of their customers. I'm not talking of the cellular-vs-WiLL battle, because that was one for their own survival, but of the fight they were having with the telecom regulator, the TRAI, which was unfairly trying to burden cellular subscribers with something called an ADC charge, in which their contribution would run to anywhere between Rs 2,000-3,000 crore (Rs 20-30 billion) a year. In other words, given that the turnover of the cellular industry is today around Rs 7,000 crore (Rs 70 billion), this means, on an average, a 15-20 per cent hike in most people's phone bills. In early 2003, when the Access Deficit Charge, or ADC, proposal was first mooted, to subsidise the state-owned BSNL, the cellular association, the COAI, filed an appeal against it. Their point was simple: apart from little logic in getting a cellular phone user to subsidise someone else, there was no evidence that BSNL was losing the kind of money the TRAI said it was while providing telephones to rural areas (BSNL does not maintain separate segment-wise accounts, but makes an overall profit). Within a short while of the COAI's protest, the TRAI miraculously reduced its estimates of the ADC from Rs 13,000 crore (Rs 130 billion) to Rs 5,335 crore (Rs 53.35 billion). But, once the cellular industrialists made their peace, or whatever, with the government last November, they've refused to take up the matter again -- mind you, this is the same COAI, that sent letter after letter to the TRAI, insisting the ADC was really zero. Instead, what the cellular operators have done is to go and jack up prices across the board, and while members of the TRAI have come out saying the hike was unjustified, no one's lifted a finger to reverse it! As Alice would have said, the story's getting curiouser and curiouser. Immediately, prices of STD calls have gone up by around a third, and those on local calls by around a tenth. STD calls on cellular networks, from one Airtel phone in Delhi to another Airtel number in Mumbai, cost Rs 1.99 per minute earlier but is now up 50 per cent, to Rs 2.99. Calls to fixed lines have also gone up -- under its Plan-150, a cellphone to fixed line call on an Airtel network has gone up from Rs 1.99 earlier to Rs 2.49. While Hutch has made no changes in its local call rates, the increases in the STD rates are broadly similar. While there are allegations that cellular firms have used the ADC as a pretext to hike prices beyond what the ADC forced them to do, the picture is blurred. The ADC on a local call from a cellular phone to a fixed line is just 30 paise, but Airtel's hiked the price by 50 paise, while Hutch has not changed this at all. So, has the customer being short-changed? Hutch has raised the rates for all STD calls by one rupee, but the highest hike in the ADC is only 80 paise -- in fact, the ADC is 50 paise for the 50-200 km distance slab, and 30 paise for the 0-50 km slab. But then Airtel has kept STD rates the same, at Rs 1.99 per minute, for all cell-to-cell STD calls for distances of below 200 km (in other words, it's absorbing some costs in one segment of calls). And what complicates things further is the issue of the grey market. Apart from the ADC on local and STD calls, the TRAI is also insisting that companies pay an ADC of Rs 4.25 per minute on whatever international calls originate or terminate on their networks. Now, since international calls cost less than this ADC (Airtel used to charge Rs 3.99 per minute for calls to the US from its Punjab network), a large proportion of international calls could simply go into the grey market -- that is, they'll take place, customers will pay the ADC, but they may be shown as local calls This can happen for STD calls as well as it's difficult to police the calls coming in on someone else's network. While the picture on whether the cellular firms have hiked tariffs in excess of the ADC remains blurred, what's clearer is why the COAI abandoned the fight on behalf of its customers. You could call it the Reliance factor. Under the earlier dispensation, WiLL-mobile services were equated with fixed lines, and so Reliance customers didn't have to pay the same charges as cellular customers. Now, however, with WiLL-mobile and cellular customers on a par, and both paying the same kind of ADC, the field is levelled. So, if cellular customers have to pay more, the industry's argument probably goes, how does it matter since they aren't going to go to Reliance because of this! What will happen, of course, are two things. One, since BSNL does not plan to hike its tariffs in the post-ADC regime (a sign it doesn't need the money as desperately as is being made out!), customers would have a greater reason to migrate to it now -- as against Rs 2.99 for a long-distance call on an Airtel network, that on a BSNL cellular network continues to cost Rs 1.80. Second, tariffs on fixed lines should fall since ADC charges on them have been cut sharply -- the ADC on a fixed line to fixed line STD call for a distance above 500 km has been cut from Rs 4 per minute in May to 80 paise now. In other words, the industry could see a churn away from it. Under the circumstances, both investors as well as subscribers of cellular firms need an explanation for the dramatic silence of the industry.

Yeah, even Orange(Mumbai) till sometime back used to charge more for CDMA. But isn't it true that CDMA users are allowed to choose whether they want to remain in Limited Mobility and not get overcharged for using Roaming facilities?(though its free now, but they wud soon charge for roaming, as well) In that case, would their nos. be restricted to 8 digits or 10 digits? and what abt their call charges etc...?

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no wht i meant was, that when ppl have posted above that they get speeds of xxkbps... is that browsing speed or dl speed? and pls mention kilobits or kilobytes to be damn sure.... In my cableNet connection i get constant 5-7kilobytes/s dl speed and hence i dont think it would be any good to venture into R-Connect as yet.

Are we talking abt browsing speeds or download speeds?

yeh, but exiting the way u said by pressing END key... keeps u logged in to YahooMessenger etc. It doesn't disconnect u from the server! And ur frenz might think u r still online!

Yeah, i rem distinctly tht i used to mess around with Line2 unknowingly and think tht i cant make or recieve calls and its a Rel prob. I jus checked and am able to make n recieve calls using Line2! usually Line 2 shud have been reserved for another no. on the same phone. Something that ORANGE(Mumbai) provides(dual no. simcard) But maybe Reliance might have kept Line2 as the same no. coz ppl tend to mess with it and then blame reliance for no service! Does anyone have any official knowing on this?

Well am not really sure, if we can set our own bill limits...! Are u sure we can do that? Moreover, these bill credit limit system is quite fascinating. Most mobile companies and other enterprises have set up very high end credit limit systems. What this system does is basically set a credit limit for all users. It monitors your bill payment modes and by when u pay ur bills. If you pay ur bills perfectly within time always, then u will have high credit limits. If at any u default on any payments, then ur credit limit would be automatically reduced, and will be increased once u show a consistent record of paying bills on time!! smart huh?

Thnx cyst.. !! I tried this thing today, and worked perfectly for me