SexyGurl

c'mon ... don't take it to heart, and anyway i just called u a "newbie" not an ******* ! Sorry for my lingo but I am used to getting called son of a bitch 20 times a day and that's how I call people who I really love & admire

YOOOHOOOO Thank God .. I can still keep using R-world with my monthly commitment remaining same I hope by News being under "M" .. they mean all i.e. Aajtak, CNBC, NDTV24x7 etc. @ani_meher .... u'r really a newbie .... go to relianceinfo.com >>> media for details on tariffs You can't use all 65 applications for Rs. 25 .. but only a select few .. the important ones being News, Videos (I hope they are including all movie songs .. Dard-e-Dil, Harkaram apna karenge etc. under "M"). The only thing where I really get hurt in Cricket Scores .... otherwise Rs. 25/- p.m. out of my normal talktime of Rs. 50/- is fine with me. Anyone: For this month, can we use the ANNIVERSARY OFFER bonus talktime for paying for April's R-world membership ?

I just now, got this message from 1232 on my RIM: "Win a chance to spend a day with Ponds Femina Miss India 2005. To participate SMS CROWN to 1234 or click on R world-Hot n New-Miss India. Reliance." Well, spending a day won't excite anybody ... and spending a NIGHT could me interesting. (Assuming not sting operations underway).

Re-reading my messages above, I myself felt that I'd be looked upon a reliance fanatic , but which is not really so. Let me give more facts: In 1996 or so, when reliance was building it's gigantic refinery, the budget waived off all customs duty on capital goods imports on refineries (terming them as a vital infrastructure component). By 1999, Reliance was thru with it's imports; refinery was done .... and the customs duties were back Everybody must have understood, what I trying to say ... and what must've happened. Now that 14,000 crore refinery is pumping out rupees .... something like 5000 crores of cashflow every year .. I tend to think, ambanis are now sprinkling those rupees all over india in the form of Infocomm By the same standards, it's a shame on ambani standards, that 15,000 crores dumped into infocomm ... is yielding an annual loss 100 crores (that is the depreciation of assets is not being fully covered). And infocomm doesn't pay any interest or finance charges on 15,000 crore ... so the real loss is understated to that extent. Despite, the license fee drama and the international call routing ADC fun ... reliance is yet to unleash the real "loot" potential of infocomm. Watch out ! Airtel, Hutch, BSNL & Tata are very critical, so the reliance doesn't convert the telecom markets to a petrochemicals-type monopoly in India I am sure the govt. & TRAI are both wary of the same possiblity

Just to put the facts here -- this is how Reliance got eliminated from the first round of cellular licences in 1995: 1. Small time folks like Bharti, Essar et all bid towering high & unreasonable figures in the bids invited for celluar licences by Narasimha Rao Govt. --- Some Rs. 11,000 crores for a country wide license !! Reliance's economically realistic figures are outbid (Reliance bid something like 3-4 thousand crores). ---- Upto that all fair ... the highest bidder takes. 2. Here comes the drama.. 1998 !!! Bharti , Essar et all, start crying, with their pants all wet due to the heavy load of license fees. Their Rs. 16/- per min call charges are still too low to pay 11,000 crores ---- Again Fair they needed cry, they chose it in 1995. BUT, India was also suffering ---> while China's cellular base was booming, India's nascent industry dying under the load of Rs. 11,000 crore license feed. 3. Crying Pays ---> 11,000 crore license fee WAIVED off by AB Vajpayee Govt. and shift to "revenue sharing" basis. ---- Now, is that fair. No one would have heard (infact laughed), if Reliance having bid Rs. 11,000 crore plus in 1995 , had started crying in 1998. Reliance had the capability & resources to put up a pan-India telecom infrastructure, but got thwarted by an unreasonable process. 4. In retrospect, (who cares fair or not), it was excellent for India, that Reliance moved in thru WLL converted Unified licenses ... and all of India is now reaping the rewards.

I would have very likely been living without a mobile phone today, if Reliance hadn't entered the market. And I believe there are a large no. of people like me. When we bought our first mobile phone at Rs. 501/- and a monthy payout of Rs. 470/- p.m. .... that was just the maximum we could afford to pay at that time. It was like paying just the rental of 470/- and getting the phone free. (Those days a GSM phone was available for about 5000/-). Today, with the second phone, we pay only Rs. 400/- for 2 mobile connections in the family ... Imagining two mobile phones in one family was out of imagination in Dec. 2002. Reliance has really been fantastic for me / my family. I hope they can be profitable, even while keeping these price levels. As per RIC Q304 statement, they had a loss of Rs. 164 crore for 9 months ... expected to be lower at about Rs. 100 crore for the whole of 2003-04. plus a Rs. 150 crore loss because of penalty (but maybe, they managed to cover some part of it, with their US revenues from selling international minutes in USA). I would really love to see reliance infocomm highly profitable ... though on back of huge volumes (not price hikes .. which I don't think will come). On the net, I think Reliance Infocomm has done a fantastic job for India.

They are just about to make my phone almost useless for me, if they start applying pay-per-use to every damn thing (eg. cricket!). I use the phone just for R-world ... leave alone outgoing, I very infrequently get incoming on it too. So, in a way, I am already paying Rs. 200/- per month (two hundred rupee vouchers) just for R-world. [Actually, it becomes about Rs. 600/- per month, if I write-off the cost of my LG 5130 in 12 months] I would love if they offer everything unlimited for, say Rs. 50/- per month, rather than pay-per-use. Do those RIM pricing guys, read rimweb

Has anyone seen the cricket score on RIM today ? It say "Score available for Rs. Zero" / "Match pass available for Rs. Zero" ! And then you have to select "Buy" using softkey 1, so that you "buy" the match pass or one-time score for the Rs. Zero. It seems days away when this "Zero" will be replaced by Rs. 1/- or Rs. 10/- for Match Pass (could be as soon as the one-dayers of the current Indo-Pak series)

Yes, I too saw icons against menus in my LG 5130 (an F icon and a pointer icon) ... ghosh, does "F" mean Free .... and rest become paid !!! They are real fools, if they want to make R-world paid now ... they should wait till their network expansion is full and subscriber base has built to 20 million. The no. of hits they are seeing currently is just because it's free and I think R-world will be left no different from a Hutch-world type ****, if they make it paid right away. In fact, I am currently paying them Rs. 200/- p.m. already for just R-world ... my mobile is just an rworld access device, not a mobile phone !!!! (I thought, I needed a phone for incomings only, not outgoing .. heck, I don't even get incomings that much) .... It's a Rs. 6.66 per day for the ****ing rworld .. (not ****ing, yet though .. it's good .. esp. all video content in a color handset )