sharad

Chirag, R u sure that hutch charges for incoming sms from msn?? Its against the spirit of smsing I think. U r rite that players by yahoo and msn are carefully chosen. But recently I read a news bite in economic times that as the sms to yahoo are charged a bit more (sms to 8242 series) a portion of this goes to yahoo inc. and thats why now they are inreasing the number of operators to which they offer service. A clear example of the above is here....Like u said to maintain monopoly, in delhi telecom circle yahoo msngr was accessible only by Hutch subscribers, but just few months back Airtel has also joined in and in no way airtel has lower subscriber base in delhi than hutch, in fact airtel has more subscribers in delhi. Sharad

I think the best polichy should be ..."Wait and Watch""

Tezo, U r rite. Number changing are causing a big confusion. I think TRAI lacks longsightedness. This should have been done at the time of issuing licence only. Shataf

Yes Chirag, I do agree with you. A landline caller will be able to access a reliance csutomer of his telecom circle, without dialing zero. I feel that picture will only get clear once the new number scheme come into effect. I also think that after 10 digit number some sms sites may start offering sms to reliance phones. Just for info:--- For sending sms to GSM, I am using www.happytexting.com its extremely fast, reliable and free.

Here's one more thing related to number change guys.... Its for sure that number change will create a bit problem for all of us. but there one more hidden problem. As we know reliance has a unified licence and not circle licence just like other GSM operators. This unified licence abilises a caller to call a reliance subscriber in a neighbouring telecom circle (with in 50 kms) by adding 95+std code+reliance number. Now after mar 1 reliance cust will have 10 digit number and that can be dialled from that telecom circle only and not from the neighbouring telecom circle (within 50 kms) by adding 95. it means that caller has to make a std call. To understand better, consider this example.... Ghaziabad is a part of delhi telecom circle and meerut is a part of west UP telecom circle. but ghaziabad and Meerut are just 45 kilometers apart. A caller from Meerut can access a reliance subscriber of ghaziabad by diling 95-120-reliance number. Now after the 10 digit scheme, this wont be possible. A caller from Meerut has to make a std call to talk to ghaziabad reliance customer. This is just a example and all the telecom circles in the country will face this.... sharad