Himanshu Singh

Its a welcome news. I have just one doubt about the number portability though. Consider those who use on net calls or if the service provider itself offers lower on net calls. Now such users wont know for sure if a particular number still belongs to same network or it shifted to another network? There should be a way to know which number is on which network.

Airtel has reported a decline in ARPUs MOUs. The average revenue per user fell from Rs.324 to Rs.305 and minutes of usage fell from 505 mins to 485 mins.

They will do anything to get away with the mandate of licensing conditions. I think they have already admitted that its not a commercial launch but they are forced to launch otherwise the penalty looms large in their faces. They will get subscribers though as there are always many unsatisfied cell users.

It is not 10 percent market share or subscriber share. Its only infrastructure being in place for 10 per cent of district head quarters with or without subscribers.

Tata will surely grow up and lose its 'virginity'.

Its the need of the hour. TRAI must tighten the screws on telecom operators for value added services. because value added services attract lower revenue sharing with government all companies have devised tricks to increase their earnings from VAS. Mtnl follows a very transparent policy. if you make a request for a service activation they would give you a confirmation call before actually activating it. thats the way telcos should be ordered to do this.

sorry about the lack of information. the pack comes with 30 days of validity.

NO one forces you to buy reliance. and air tel no longer has unlimited mobile office. do confirm.

I am not too sure about the authenticity of this news. such things dont get away un reported in a competitive world. rivals of RCOMM would have leaked this to media houses had such thing happened.

Even improvement in quality is not a given thing with entry of new operators. it may well happen but not in near future. its going to take one to two years before things start looking up.

Precisely the point i wanted to put across. The entry of more operators does not necessarily mean further cuts. Call tariffs will never go down in the present regime.

ANOTHER INSTANCE OF CALL RATE HIKE. WE SHOULD STOP EXPECTING FOR TARIFF CUTS ANYMORE. used caps for bringing home the point not to offend anyone.

All New Idea Prepaid Subscriber ( w.e.f 1st April 2009) with account validity equal to greater than 6 months will be deactivated if he/she does not recharge with a minimum value of Rs 200/- once in every 6months. The same condition will be applied for all existing Idea prepaid subs ( w.e.f 1st Oct 2009) All New Idea Prepaid Grace subscribers ( w.e.f 1st April 2009) will be deactivated on 60th day of grace. The same condition will be applied for all existing Idea prepaid subs ( w.e.f 1st Oct 2009) I wonder whatever happened to 1,2,3 year validity schemes? Lifetime is already over!

New customers on all profiles effective 29th March’09 will get GPRC benefit on incoming calls at the rate of 5paise for every 60 seconds incoming · Existing Virgin mobile brand customers who have completed 6 months will get 5paise credit on every 60 seconds incoming ,effective 1st May’09 · Remaining customers will start getting the revised benefit (of 5p credit on incoming calls ) as and when they complete 6 months with us. This is due to the reduction in termination fee I am sure. I had anticipated in this forum that Virgin might do away with this benefit of get paid on incoming. They have reduced it from 10 paise to 5 paise.

He must have completed 180 days with virgin by april 25.

Idea is 2nd only to Reliance in fooling customers by offering quite too many similar but marginally different STVs.

whosoever beleived in the adage of more players mean more competition means less costs would be shocked at the recent moves made by all telecom operators. i think the realisation has dawned upon players small and big that tariffs cant go down anymore. competitive pricing is a dead word now. things would get costlier one by one is what i feel. consumers had had enough by the way of ever falling tariffs. now its the turn of operators to tighten the screws on the vulnerable consumers after they have become sure me ties marker shares. newer players would follow suit sooner rather than later.

Reliance has launched unlimited on net recharge option of Rs.169 which allows free calls to Gsm network valid for 30 days. I guess its Aircel effect.

Are virgin phones usable with tataindicom sim and vice versa?

Infact reliance is swimming in opposite direction. In Delhi GSM operators have better sms plans in pre paid than post paid. Most dont even have sms packs in many of postpaid plans. While reliance has many sms packs for post paid subscribers but few for locals.

STV 59 offers local calls@30paise between 12 am to 6 am and between 12pm to 6pm. For the remaining time period local calls are charged at 60paise

Last April it was Airtel which reduced std tariff from 2.75 to 1.5. But it came as cost to other operators who were using Airtel for carrying their std traffic. We must remember there are only a few operators which had pan india nld at that time and even now. BSNL does not carry any std traffic from private operators as far as i know. As already mentioned above Airtel increased the carriage fee from 25 paise to 55 paise. the result was that operators like idea had to shell out a lot more. Thats why you find that while roaming idea says in circles where it has tie up with airtel roaming rates are still 1.4 for local and 2.75 for std. i am sure airtel has committed something wrong.

ravi source is www.virginmobile.in in plan kya hai section. its already in place.

savramesh, daily pass is not unlimited.

I love this. 8-10 operators in every circle is a very welcome thing. It certainly empower the customers. It will discourage any further attempts at cartelisation. Kerala and TN have max number of operators I guess. Soon with Tata coming into GSM one more pan india provider would be present everywhere. Throw in the new licensees who are waiting to launch services and you get a success story unparalleled in Indian economy.