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@KumaarShaah Thanks for going through my post and giving me your vauable feedback. I appreciate it! Rs. 41 is the cost incurred for STD calls. 82 mins is the total STD usage and Rs. 41 is the cost incurred. Also, for Docomo no packs are necessary. I have eliminated the initial costs for both the connections and calculated only on call basis. I decided not to include cost of sim card etc.

Airtel and Vodafone plans are not upto the mark. First of all they offer a tariff validity of 1year whereas Docomo offers per second pulse for life (confirmed from docomo cc) Also, in Airtel for off net calls it is being charged at an effective rate of 72ps/min which is comparitively higher. Also, in vodafone (Karnataka), the first 60seconds would be charged at 2ps/sec and then subsequently calls would be charged at 1ps/sec. Too many conditions, ifs and buts........... Not at all SIMPLE

Interesting tariff!!!!!!!! If Airtel can calculate 1.2ps/sec then it also means that 1ps/sec is not the cheapest tariff at all. it can go below 1ps also. As of now all telcos are holding on to 1ps/sec keeping in mind profitability and also calculation easiness. If any operator, especially any new operator like Uninor and Etisilat wishes, it can break this monotony and push telecom tariffs further southwards......

MTS website has been updated and now shows that MTS services have been launched in Karnataka.

Thanks for the instant response. Are you experiencing voice break up on Samsung Guru phone or is it a general network feedback?????

Any user reviews about this phone??????

To register for DNC you can also call 1909(toll free)

Are Indian corporates becoming less reliable??????????? After the Satyam scam even Elder Pharma, a listed pharmaceutical company has also come under the scanner of SFIO???? I really hope all this is sorted out at the earliest else foreign investment in out country would be hit. Really dissapointed that a Reliance Group Company has been involved in such activities.

I feel Reliance scheme is still better. Reliance has local calling packs which give you 200mins on a recharge of Rs. 80 which effectively works out to 40ps/min. And all this without the hassle of first call at standard rate etc. Added benefits like roaming and sms too

Thanks for the info!!!!!!!

^^^^^ What is HL??

Hitesh, thank you very much for the detailed user experience of the phone. I had an intention of purchasing this handset and now i have changed my mind. As said by amitbt22, the main talking point about CDMA is the clarity of speech and if that it missing, then definitely there would be very few takers for such phones. Any good LG basic CDMA (other than 3500) phone which gives good battery backup????

How about the other features of the phone like the sound quality, network reception etc???

^^^^^ Advertisement of 10hrs talktime and in actual 4hrs????? Really bad. Not impressive. The camera is VGA right?

^^^^ Did they giveout any pamphlets????????????

Sistema Shyam's Delhi launch comes with a range of offers BS Reporter / New Delhi October 09, 2009, 0:24 IST Aiming to tap the lucrative Delhi mobile market, the CDMA player Sistema Shyam Teleservices has offered consumers a range of options, including a scheme where users can avail a million minutes of usage free. The MCard, under a Minute Millionares scheme worth Rs 499, would offer a lifetime benefit of a million free minutes of local talk time (about 694 days or close to two years) from MTS to MTS phones, with 150 minutes call time and 10 free SMS to any network in India each day. The services, under the brand name MTS, would also offer full talk-time for life, with a per-second pulse rate under a Power of One plan. The users would be able to make local calls at a paisa a second and STD calls at 2 paise a second. Besides the innovative Power of One tariff plan which, on an average, will add 25 per cent to the value of recharge, we have prepared a special promotion offer for the Delhi launch called Minute Millionaires. We offer a million minutes of talk time free through the MCard. MTS products are available at 16,000 retail outlets across NCR. SOURCE: http://www.business-standard.com/india/news/sistema-shyam%5Cs-delhi-launch-comesa-rangeoffers/372719/

Excellent Idea!!!!!!!!!! They might give out advertisement pamphlets to all cars telling them that their drive was sponsored by MTS the latest entrant into the Delhi Mobile Business. And its bound to turn heads because people love it when anything for that matter come for free. A good approach according to me. Instead of putting up a hoarding at a higher cost in the prime area and waiting for heads to turn, an initiative like this is better. A perfect blend of psychology and marketic tactics.

Dear friends, Before you recharge for any amount especially using the online facility please call up customer care. The website has been updated. From the information i gathered, now full talktime offers are the same on both CDMA and GSM. On CDMA Rs. 100, 200,300, 400, 500 offer full talktime unlike the earlier denominations of 201,301,401, 501 respectively.

^^^^^^^^^^^^^ Off topic Conformed with the cc that the account validity and traiff validity is for lifetime

Good news for Delhites!!!!!!! Interesting to see how MTS positions itself in the wake of the newly introduced SIMPLY RELIANCE plan

Vodafone Adjudged The Most Admirable Mobile Service Brand In India September 29th, 2009 Sanjay Bafna Leave a comment Go to comments Vodafone, the mobile service brand of Vodafone Essar, has emerged as the “Most Admired Mobile Service Brand Online” in India followed by Tata Indicom and Aircel in an pan-India survey conducted by Drizzlin Media. The survey shows that Reliance Mobile emerged as the least admired brand. Drizzlin Media, a Branding 2.0 consultancy, audited over 1,600 relevant conversations of the 7,000 conversations sampled around India’s top 10 telecom brands to identify the most admired mobile service brand in the Indian Online Space. Admiration was defined as having a negative or a positive sentiment towards different aspects of the brand including Product/services, Tariffs/billing, Ads/promotions, Customer Care Service, Network Coverage and Brand Affinity. The Telecom brands covered for the purpose of the survey are Airtel, Vodafone, Idea Cellular, Tata Indicom, Aircel, Reliance Mobile, BSNL Mobile, MTNL, Spice Mobile and Loop Mobile. The Methodology of the survey based on 6 venue types were chosen for the purpose of the survey which were: Internet Blogs, Micro blogs, Twitter, Social Networks like Facebook and Orkut, Forums, Video Sharing: YouTube and Consumer review sites like Mouthshut. For each of the venues, Goggle searches were conducted with advanced operators. For Orkut.com, however, site-specific searches were conducted, owing to the private nature of the social network for calculation of the overall admiration score, the sum of scores for each brand was computed. A weightage was also assigned to the brands, based on Expected Conversations v/s Actual Conversations found. This weightage multiplied by the score of each brand, gave the final admiration score for each brand. The Overall score for the brand determined the “Most Admired Mobile Service Brand Online”. Admiration scores were also calculated for each individual parameter across the 10 brands to identify the top brands. The score was calculated by assigning weights, based on conversations around the parameter, for each brand. The Key Findings of The Survey-: • Vodafone has been recognized as the most admired mobile service brand online in India. This feat has been achieved through its strong branding and advertising efforts both in the offline and online mediums. • BSNL Mobile has scored highest in admiration for products and services while Vodafone appeared at the bottom of the stack. In the context of Tariffs and Billing, BSNL Mobile took the top honours while Airtel lagged at the bottom. Vodafone scored the highest in terms of admiration for ads and promotional messaging. Here BSNL Mobile scored the lowest. • Tata Indicom scored the highest in network coverage while Loop Mobile was the laggard in this space. • MTNL scored the highest in customer service, while Vodafone was rated to have the worst customer service. • Tata Indicom scores the highest in brand affinity whereas Aircel scores the lowest. While MTNL and BSNL Mobile scored high on individual parameters, people talking of ads and promotions around brands was far higher, propelling active advertising brands like Vodafone, Aircel and Airtel to the top. • Facebook, despite its phenomenal growth in the Indian online space, still does not see much activity by the telecom brands. Apart from Tata Indicom and Vodafone, all the other brands had negligible presence on the platform. • 83% of the conversations, in which the gender could be clearly deduced, were found to be by men, while only 6% of these conversations were by women. • The highest number of conversations was found to be around Ads and promotions, particularly on YouTube and Twitter. Source: http://telecomtalk.info/vodafone-adjudged-as-the-most-admired-mobile-service-brand-in-india/10421/

TRAI has started the practice of publishing congestion related data in newspapers so that consumers are aware of which service provider is able to provide congestion less service. I have uploaded the data for the karnataka circle which was published in TIMES OF INDIA, Bangalore edition dated 30th September, 2009, page number 22.

Reliance GSM to offer STD at 39 p/min NEW DELHI: Taking on Airtel's offer of national calls at 50 paise a minute, Reliance Mobile on Thursday launched STD pack offering its GSM subscribers calls on any network at 39 paise per minute. The pack will include 100 minutes' talk time on e-recharge, Reliance Communications said in a statement. “This unique STD pack, available across Delhi and NCR, is specially designed for Reliance Mobile GSM subscribers considering the high STD usage during festive seasons and will be available at a minimal cost of Rs 39 carrying a validity of 30 days from th e date of recharge,” it added. “The launch of this offer with unique prices for STD callers is part of Reliance Mobile's ongoing effort to provide its subscribers an exceptional mobile experience across India,” Reliance Communications Circle Head (Delhi), Mr Sanjeev Govil said. - PTI Source: http://www.thehindubusinessline.com/blnus/15241815.htm

^^^^^^^ Confirmed it is 78ps/min. I am very sorry for my wrong posts. The other day when I called up the customer care they gave me a different story. Tday when i called them they clearly mentioned it is a jaadu and not a STD pack. I regret the inconvinience caused to anybody because of my earlier posts. It was not intentional and based upon the information provided by the CC. Sorry

Excellent answer.......... I couldnt help laughing out loud when I read your reply. I agree with you 100%. I took a new GSM connection which shows lifetime validity until 18th November, 2022. I have two other CDMA connections and a GSM connection which shows validity until 20th July, 2021.