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is RIM going to copy an ad like this ?? :-)

i even wont be suprised .....if they follow the gsm guys. .. why only offer to certain parts of india rather than the whole of india ...

particularly everything ...if u have to roam around on a vehical (car or bike ) then theres alot of distrybances, able to catch only one fm channel ... the battery covers becomes looose .........

Ring tones means money for mobile industry IANS[ MONDAY, FEBRUARY 14, 2005 03:44:01 PM] NEW DELHI: Juhi Bawa dialled four digits on her flashy mobile phone and whispered her name into it. Within seconds a computer application converted her voice into a peppy ring tone. The service christened "Tooki Ringtones" was one of the latest innovations offered at Mobile Expo 2005, India's first exhibition on the cellular industry that was held here last week. With mobile users beginning to look beyond voice connectivity and willing to pay for more content, cellular solutions providers are constantly coming up with technological innovations to meet customer demands. The Tooki ring tone service is one such innovation that allows users to create their own ring tones instead of downloading pre-recorded melodies often culled from Bollywood or western films. "The service will convert any tune hummed by the user into a musical note. It is the first of its kind in the country," Satish Kejriwal, chief operating officer of Cellnext Solutions Limited that provides the service in India, told IANS. Users will be charged about Rs.10 (22 cents) for composing their own ring tones by dialling "6677" from any mobile phone. The service is not model specific. continued : N3XT

NEW DELHI - Idea Cellular recently announced a SMS package at just 1 paisa per message for the prepaid customers in the Delhi & NCR region. (point1) To subscribe to this package, Idea prepaid customers need to send a message <YES> to 5391 and experience savings of the greatest degree and send as many messages without being worried about bills. This special package of SMS @ 1 paisa will be applicable to all I-Card customers also at no extra rental. Commenting on this promotion, Mr. Rajendra Chourasia, Circle Head - Delhi & NCR, IDEA Cellular Ltd. said, "We have observed that the SMS usage among our prepaid customers has been on a constant rise. Hence, presenting such an offer is a way to reward our customers and make their mobile experience seamlessly enjoyable. With this we also expect increased customer acquisition in the youth segment. And we hope this will further create stronger bonds between Idea and its customers." (point2) source : http://infotech.indiatimes.com/articleshow/1017910.cms __________________________________________________________________ point1 : Idea Cellular recently announced a SMS package at just 1 paisa per message for the prepaid customers in the Delhi & NCR region. there are sooo baised man !!! !dea sux!! _____________________ Point 2 : Commenting on this promotion, Mr. Rajendra Chourasia, Circle Head - Delhi & NCR, IDEA Cellular Ltd. said, "We have observed that the SMS usage among our prepaid customers has been on a constant rise..... they are such liars man ... dont believe a word wat they say !!

can we have ur view on the ad ??

Indian SMS King brks wrld recrd And da winna is ........ karan Sachdevaaaah !!! INDIATIMES NEWS NETWORK[ MONDAY, FEBRUARY 14, 2005 05:09:23 PM ] NEW DELHI: Behind every successful man, it is said, there is a woman. But in the case of Karan Sachdev there are a lot of them. Thanks to the crowd of girlfriends, the overactive Delhi college student is Capital’s champion in an unusual sport: SMSing or Mobile texting. Karan, a second year B Com student of Delhi University, became the Indian SMS king, by punching a confusing message of 160 characters in 66 seconds in a tense competition in the Capital on Saturday. His entry into the record books was loaded with dramatic moments, and a tense competition with over 1500 wanna-be SMS kings. Popular among friends for his speed and his SMSing capacity, Karan was informed about the contest by a close friend. Karan landed at the Mobile Expo 2005 held at New Delhi’s sprawling exhibition ground, Pragati Maidan, for ‘Fastest Fingers First’ contest organised by Samsung Mobile on Saturday along with 1500 others. Karan finally emerged successfully after several rounds of competition that concluded with the final where 10 contestants sat in a cabin, away from the crowds, typing out the message. The message, a Guinness World Records standard text – for the competition was: “ The razor-toothed piranhas of the genera Serrasalmus and Pygocentrus are the most ferocious freshwater fish in the world. In reality they seldom attack a human.” This had to be typed on a C-200 Samsung model. The competition that began with the Delhi round will come to an end after touring five states. Karan would compete with the champions from the other five states to be country’s SMS King. When the organisers started their search from the Capital, little did they know that the first search itself would give them a record breaker. “We received an amazing response to this competition. Karan was a surprise,” said one of the organisers, pointing out that another contestant was an expected winner. Continued...N3XT>>

Hi Guyz Any here knows how to setup a wi-fi connection ...wat are its requirements and how much does it cost to setup a wi-fi connection ?

thnx vasmshi ... can it be used to operate a small radio station using wi-fi ?

ok thnx ...but do they charge for that ?

wht are the posibilities of a wi-fi connections ??? i mean wher ecan they be used ? and how ?

Telecom Regulatory Authority of India 9th February, 2005 Press Release No.14/2005 Telecom Subscribers Continue the Growth Trend during Jan, 2005. Total Mobile Subscriber base touches about 5 crores. The subscriber base for telephony services continued to maintain its growth during Jan.2005 also with around 2.16 million subscribers being added. Thus, a total of 18.74 millions subscribers have been added during the first 10 months of financial year 2004-2005. Mobile Service : For mobile segment 1.77 million subscribers have been added during January 2005. The mobile additions consist of 1.27 million GSM subscribers and 0.50 million CDMA subscribers as against 1.42 million GSM and 0.53 million CDMA subscribers in the previous month. During first 10 months of the financial year 2004-05 about 16.17 million mobile subscribers have been added. The total mobile subscribers at the end of January 2005 are around 5 crores. Mobile Tarrif : A comparison of tariff plans for mobile service of SAARC Countries revealed that the mobile tariffs in India are lowest as compared to other countries as shown in the table below: Countries Per Minute Cellular Tariffs (in US Cents) 1. India 3-4 2. Bangladesh 6.5 3. Nepal 6.5 4. Pakistan 8.4 5. Sri Lanka 11.0 6. Bhutan 11.4 7. Maldives 14.4 With the implementation of the new ADC regime from February 2005, the subscriber growth is likely to receive a boost due to the further decline in tariffs as most of the mobile operators have announced reduction in tariffs. Fixed subscribers In the fixed segment a total of 0.39 million subscribers were added during January 2005. With this the total subscriber base of fixed lines have crossed 45 million. Teledensity: The gross subscriber base consisting of fixed as well as mobile has become 94.92 million at the end of January 2005. The teledensity at the end of January 2005 has reached 8.80 compared to 8.62 at the end of previous month. (S.N. Gupta) Advisor (CN) source : http://www.trai.gov.in/pr9feb05.htm

ya tht is avlbl on bazee CAD 26527[/snapback] guys dont go for these handsfree with fm in it. .. they are not worth a single buck ... i brought one and i repento n that ....

r-world on my lg 6130 is not working ...only a few applications are working like new, ringtones , songs/film, icici bank (hdfc not working) ... but all applications are working fine on the samsung and other lg models !!!

source : http://bb100.hkbn.net/BB100/index_e.htm read the terms ....

For the first time in over four years, the national average revenue per user for GSM based telecom operators in the country has fallen below the Rs 400 mark to Rs 396.41 during the third quarter of the current fiscal, down 1.42 per cent from the previous quarter, according to data compiled by the cellular operators. The APRU, which was Rs 523 in June, 2003, fell to Rs 432 per in March 2004. It declined further to touch the Rs 402 mark in the first quarter (April -June), 2004, a 6.8 per cent drop over January-March 2004. The APRU sustained at Rs 402 during the July-September 2004 and finished at Rs 396.41 during October-December 2004. Despite the decline in the APRU, cellular companies are happy that the rates are stabilising. "Over the last year, the decline has been marginal. Prior to this, the ARPU was dropping relentlessly at over four per cent every quarter. Our tariffs are amongst the lowest in the world, and as scope for further reduction is minimal, ARPU is not likely to decline much further," said T V Ramachandran, director general, Cellular Operators Association of India told Business Standard. According to data released by COAI, Reliance, Idea and BPL were the biggest gainers during the quarter October-December, 2004 reporting a growth of 12.71 per cent, 3.03 per cent and 1.08 per cent respectively in their ARPUs, their first since 2003. For Hutch, despite its average revenue being on the decline over the last three quarters, it's figures continue to be the highest in the country at Rs 484.08, followed by Bharti at Rs 433.35. (point1) Hutch and Bharti are also the only private GSM service providers, amongst the seven players, who are above the national average (Rs 396.41). According to Deepak Kapoor, executive directive and leader, telecom practice, PricewaterhouseCoopers, telecom operators were unlikely to be concerned about their ARPU, as the decline was due to the falling tariffs. "Another round of tuning will lead to stabilisation in the tariffs -- it is then that that average revenue would be important as a good measure, as cost of addition of a subscriber to the network becomes negligible," he said. On the revenue front, the total adjusted gross revenue of GSM operators, as defined by the Department of Telecommunications rose to Rs 3207.28 crore (Rs 32.07 billion) in the third quarter, from Rs 2930.68 crore (Rs 29.39 billion) in the previous quarter (July - September, 2004). Only two service providers, Reliance during the July-Sept period and Aircel in April-June, had witnessed a fall in revenues over the last three quarters. Bharti continues to be the highest total revenue in the country at Rs 1149 crore (Rs 11.49 billion) during the Oct-Dec quarter, a 8.04 per cent higher than in the previous quarter, followed by Hutch at Rs 983.97 crore (Rs 9.84 billion), up 10.71 from July-Sept period. source : http://in.rediff.com/money/2005/feb/11mobile.htm ___________________________________________________________________ Now see point1 : For Hutch, despite its average revenue being on the decline over the last three quarters, it's figures continue to be the highest in the country at Rs 484.08, followed by Bharti at Rs 433.35. Does this mean that an avg hutch / aircel users pays 484 and 433 than compared to 391/- on avg. ? if so arent these operators expensive ??? on the other hand : my avg bill bper month is roughly between 1500/- to 1700/- bucks... (this includes sms, voice calls , data service like internet + the rs 400/- installment ...fair enough isnt it ....and from this month onwards even the 400/- thing is over )

u r definately right anujit .....

its gonna be a instant hit in india man ... and i damn sure the gsm operators will start this .... yuks !!!!

i think its not a good idea to have a radio link to listen to misc via r-world. coz : 1) uses alot of power 2) the phone tends to get busy sometimes. etc ... its better to have a radio on the handset itself ... like the no-kia models !!

another MMS Scandal !!! this time in chandigadh ____________________________________________________- MMS sleaze now grips Chandigarh IANS[ WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 09, 2005 03:10:12 PM ] Sign into earnIndiatimes points CHANDIGARH: A MMS video clip purportedly showing a city-based professional and socialite woman having sex has set the city's social circles aflutter. Senior police officials here said they had viewed the video clip and were contemplating action. "We can take action for obscenity and we are trying to figure out provisions of law under which a case can be registered," a senior officer said. The 22-second video clip, believed to have been shot with a mobile phone with camera - shows a woman in mid-30s with an unidentified man believed to be a professional. The video clip has been doing the rounds in the city's party circles for nearly a month now. The police say they would have to investigate if the woman was really involved in the video clip or was a victim of a conspiracy

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It's a common call. Agitated customers keep complaining about telecom companies overcharging or being charged for calls they never made. Worse, they lament shelling out for a tariff plan, which they hadn't subscribed to in the first place. Don't worry. Such troubles might be mitigated to a large extent, as new billing technologies sweeping the globe are fast making their way into the country. With the cost of customer acquisition on the rise, Indian telecom companies are investing millions of dollars in their billing systems to prevent churn, create product differentiation and provide them with the competitive edge in the marketplace. Says Jay Menon, director IT at Bharti Televentures: "Billing systems provide the differentiation that in turn adds to your competitive edge." Competitors like Hutch, however, think otherwise. Says a senior executive of Essar Hutchison: "Virtually everyone gets the new technology, and it is available at a price so you cannot use billing for differentiation. It is more for providing customers more convenience." So what can customers expect to make their cell world simpler? Ice World provides a peek into how these new billing technologies will change the lives of customers. What are telecom companies doing to reduce billing errors and what are the key billing technology trends? Here are some of the new billing systems that are making their way here. One bill for different services If you are a Bharti subscriber using their mobile service apart from a fixed line connection as well as a DSL broadband service, you might wonder why you get three separate bills. After all it is such a pain. Well, soon you need not. Bharti is working on a billing system, which will provide you a single bill for all the three services. Says Menon of Bharti Televentures: "We are already working on convergent billing. "The project blueprint is already on. We will synchronise billings for our enterprise customers and then go for individual customers." Menon does not want to hazard a time frame, but he admits its completion will take at least a couple of years. For telecom companies, a single bill makes immense sense, for they can bundle offerings across services. A survey undertaken amongst telecom company consumers internationally, have shown that a single bill has been cited as the most compelling reason for selecting a telecommunication carrier. Studies by world billing system leaders CSG Systems, have shown that subscribers to packaged bundled offers (including different services) are less likely to churn than those who subscribe to one service. In simple terms, it means that customers can get more attractive tariff offers. For instance, operators can offer consumers multi-balanced accounts, where they can use surplus time in one service for another, get volume discounts (a specific airtime usage on mobile can attract more minutes in broadband at a special rate) and so on. That's not the only advantage. With customer relationship building becoming a complex exercise, a single bill offers a total view of the customer. And that, says CSG Systems' country manager Rothin Bhattacharya, is important. Says he: "A single bill gives telecom companies a total view of the customer, how they pay their bills, what type of service they use more, what new service offers could entice them and at what price. It becomes easier for telecom companies to roll out new services with this integrated information." More importantly, telecom companies will be able to value the importance of the subscriber based on the total strength of his financial relationship (how much he pays for all the services together) rather than an individual paying for each service separately. E-billing You might be in Beijing or Los Angeles, but that does not matter. You can access your account online either on the net or your mobile, from anywhere in the world and keep a tab on your bill. Customers can do virtually anything: change tariff plan, subscribe to a new service by making a request, lodge a complaint, book a movie ticket or a candle light dinner with his wife and arrange it to be billed at the end of the month through his post paid bill. All by pressing few buttons. That's not all. You might suddenly get an SMS from your daughter while you are abroad, saying that her prepaid is running low and she needs to top up but does not have cash. Don't worry. All you have to do is to log on to her operator and activate a prepaid top up for your daughter. Of course, the top up will be billed by your operator in the next bill. For all these services, telecom companies fork out nearly Rs 15-20 per customer to send paper bills home. It includes printing costs and courier services, and, of course, the billing problem of never delivering on time and the telephonic services which are prone to errors. The antidote to all this is e-billing, and virtually all the companies like Bharti, Hutch and Reliance are adopting this with gusto. Executives in Hutch say that e- billing provides you with immense flexibility for the customers. It puts great convenience and control in the hands of the customers as well as improves the overall quality of service. Bharti which is rolling out its electronic bill presentation and payment system, will offer both voice as well as data option to be in touch with your bill. You can make a call and update yourself on the status of your bill. This also saves money for the companies. Their operational costs reduce as they don't have to deliver bills physically. Also customer care costs shrink as they shift to a web-based customer self care mode. Pay according to quality Can companies offer you service guarantees or else they pay up? Is it possible for customers to pay according to the quality of the download received for data, and not pay for calls, which dropped in the middle forcing them to redial the number? Are billing systems versatile enough to identify such calls? The answer is yes. The new motto in Bharti is that customers only pay for what they use. So for data downloads, Bharti customers pay for the service only after the download reaches the mobile phone. The reason is simple. Says Menon: "In many cases, the customers might find that the connectivity has snapped while downloading. It's unfair to charge for such a download." It is also putting a billing system in place, where customers can pay different rates for data depending on the quality. So for images of higher resolution, you fork out extra compared to a normal quality one. For ringtones which are hot and popular, you might have to pay more rather than have a common tariff for all ringtone downloads. Menon and his team are trying to spread the service guarantee ethos also to voice. But this could be difficult. A few months ago, Bharti experimented with a service where a customer could call a number which had dropped within 30 seconds and pay less for the call. But Hutch executives say that it does not find much value in offering such goodies: as call drops are not that high, and tracking such calls is not easy. Even Bharti withdrew that service recently. Bills which help you choose the right tariff plan Can telecom companies recommend the best tariff plan that you should pick up? Modern billing systems can help solve this. Billing systems are a repository of information. They can pick up and analyse your previous bills and call patterns and can provide you intelligent answers. Bharti has already started innovating with this system. But why do bills have problems and what are companies doing to erase them? Earlier, Reliance Infocomm was deluged with billing complaints. Customers' three common complaints were: that they were charged for the wrong plan, earlier payments were not reflected in the new bill and bills were reaching late. A Reliance Infocomm spokesperson cites the reasons for the complaints: "These problems crop up because incorrect information has been filed in the forms, there are data entry errors by the telecom companies and incorrect addresses." Hutch executives point out that in 95 per cent of the cases, where customers have complained of a billing problem, it is because of miscommunication or difference in perception of what the customer understood and what the company executives actually explained. CSG Systems however points out that errors in the bill due to the system are virtually minimal. But Bhattacharya says, that since their systems depend on the backend inputs, and any errors there impact the output adversely. Some common problems, according to him, include the call duration record from the exchange being duplicated, the bank payment gateway not recording the transaction and so on. So to minimise errors, Hutch ensures that every data entry is rechecked by another individual. It also has a group, which randomly checks bills to ensure that the tariffs match the call minutes. Bharti is putting together an end-to-end revenue assurance system, where the data will be checked up from the switching stage (were the minutes' records are kept) to the billing stage on a continuous basis to see if they match. This is to ensure that no revenue leakage has occurred and that consumers are not overcharged. Many billing systems are also incorporating some elements of fraud prevention. Like telecom companies programme their computers in such a way, that the alarm rings when a consumer makes calls which are much higher than his average bill usage. Companies use this alarm to send messages to their customers to warn them or even deactivate their accounts if they think something is amiss. So what are companies looking for in the billing systems of the future? Well simply, scaleability, centralised in one or a few locations, integration of both prepaid and post-paid customers needs and wants and the challenges of convergence. That is why transformations are already on the cards. The accent here is to build a centralised billing system. That's because, as Bhattacharyya says, it is easy to manage from one place, it lowers operational costs and offers more flexibility. Bharti recently scrapped its legacy system (it had four different kinds of billing solutions) and has shifted its entire billing operations to Delhi for all its circles. It has already invested over Rs 250 crore (Rs 2.5 billion) to put the system in place, and experts say that it will help them reduce operational costs by over 30 per cent. Even state-owned Bharatiya Sanchar Nigam Ltd, which has been under attack for its faulty billing system, is looking for a major revamp. For long, private operators have been cribbing about BSNL's billing systems, which has forced them to fork out much more in interconnect revenues. The company has just introduced broadband solutions for customers at lower tariffs. Realising the need for a modern billing solution, BSNL recently issued an expression of interest from companies who would replace the old multiple, decentralised operations into a centralised billing system operating from only six centres. Clearly, with all the telecom companies sprucing up their act, the complaint calls could soon be a thing of the past. courtesy : Rediff

acha ... could be .. they might be getting ready for the stiff competetion from their rivals !!

deepu ..i hd enquired it a few months back...and the deaker said that you will have to pya 7000/- bucks for the equipments and all and then there are 2 plance 110/- and 220/- in 110 plan u get some 30 odd channels and in 220/- plan u get some 40+ channels ...

Aiming to sell half a million mobile sets within a year, Haier -- a leading home appliances brand on Tuesday announced its foray into the Indian mobile handset market with the launch of its seven GSM mobile sets in New Delhi. The price of newly launched mobile sets would start from Rs 3,654 and go up to Rs 14,940 per set. The mobile sets would be distributed through its national distributor 'Trust Telecom' having the support of nationwide after sales service network throughout India. Haier, having over 60 models of mobile sets globally, would also launch its CDMA mobile sets within couple of months. "With the launch of our seven state of the art mobile sets comprising entry-level as well as high end models, we have set a target to sell 500,000 GSM mobile sets with a turnover of Rs 250 crore (Rs 2.5 billion) in one year," said T K Banerjee, President & CEO, of Haier Appliances (India) Pvt Ltd, while addressing reporters. Haier India, a 100 per cent subsidiary of Haier Group, plans to achieve a growth of almost 60 per cent in Indian mobile handset segment. "We have set a challenging task for us to achieve a 60 per cent growth in our mobile telephony segment with an intention to occupy a slot in top three mobile handsets companies," said Banerjee. Haier India, which entered into Indian market a year ago has launched its GSM mobile sets first for North Indian market and within few days it would enter southern, eastern and western markets. Haier has a state of the art manufacturing facility in China for GSM & CDMA mobile phone handsets with technology partnership with leading technology providers and has a production capacity of 15 million handsets per year. ___________________________________________________courtesy : Rediff.com why didnt they mention the features t he phone would have .... why do these F.uckers think we like only cheap products .....