Greens

Rs.200 sub charge for RIM. 10 paise per minute ISP charges for FWP & T.

Use ZoneAlarm Pro.

And moreover you got 6 months grace period, where you can recieve incoming calls and sms, even when you wont recharge. No other operator gives this offer.

Who's going to bell the cat??????

hey they are selling that free prepaid vouchers. 200*8=1600+2000=3600 they arent valid to talk isd calls. beware.

Then it's not getting in grey market, because you do the name transfer officialy.

What I meant was experienced ppl from rimweb.com can do pretty good review, so users of mouthshut.com will get a better idea of RIM. And also add a link for rimweb.com, let this forum get popular.

Thats true, in those early days. But these ppl don't have any authority, they can simply answer your queries but cant solve any of your problems. They simply crease a case and tell you the case id. Thats it. It seems reliance is coming with webworld express, where geographically customer is mapped to the nearest webworld express and customers are served better.

Explain to the service centre guys and get the battery replaced, free of cost as you got 9 months warranty.

Funny ppl, why does an illiterate who cant even recogonise numbers want a mobile phone what difference is it going to make?????

may be bcoz of some improper contact between charger and battery leads, try to clean it and check whether they are intact.

anyways you ppl can add new reviews, which will help users at mouthshut.com. and invite them to rimweb.com

Itz officially unofficial. Unbundling was done to close the stock, and pave for new schemes.

What do you prefer? CDMA or GSM? NEERAJ SAXENA TIMES NEWS NETWORK[ WEDNESDAY, APRIL 21, 2004 11:10:29 AM ] NEW DELHI: GSM operators are not the only ones who are worried about the rapid strides made by CDMA mobile players, Reliance Infocomm and Tata Indicom in the Indian cellular market? The GSM suppliers ? both handset and equipment - who incidentally also have their other foot firmly placed in the CDMA pie, are beginning to lose some sleep over what was earlier termed as ?niche? and ?miniscule? data carriage market by the operators. Apart from the strong success of the two CDMA operators whose networks are based on code division multiple access (CDMA), the miserable showing of the four global standard for mobile (GSM) based networks that had launched general packet radio service (GPRS) service for data connectivity last year, has the vendors worried. GSA now believes that even though India will primarily remain a voice traffic-led market in next two-three years, the data traffic component will grow by 25-30 per cent, an optimism that it trying to make GSM operators feel as well. The CDMA challenge: CDMA players had launched their services with CDMA 2000 1X-based networks which can give hi-speed, always-on connectivity to the Internet and other data services. GSM operators, on the other hand, have had to migrate from the frustrating experience of WAP (wireless application protocol) to GPRS which has not significantly improved the subscriber?s experience of surfing the Net on/from mobile. The top brass of Global mobile Suppliers Association (GSA) - an organisation comprising Nokia, Siemens, Ericsson, Alcatel and Lucent Technologies - met on Tuesday in the capital to persuade the operators to adopt EDGE (Enhanced Data rates for GSM Evolution) and leave GPRS behind as a dream gone sour. Only Airtel, Hutch, BPL Mobile and Idea Cellular had launched GPRS, but the data transfer speeds of GPRS have been abysmal. The field trials gave a speed of around 54 kbps, but the actual speeds have not exceeded 14-18 kbps, a major reason why GPRS growth has been so slow. As against the total GSM cellular base of 2.61 crore, the country has between 80,000-1 lakh GPRS users only. In comparison, the two CDMA operators have about 90 lakh connections. All these sets are data compliant. Though no figures are available as to how many use these for data services, the figure is believed to be respectable as a percentage ratio for CDMA. Bharti Cellular is close to commercially launching its EDGE service in Delhi and Mumbai by end ay or early June, sources said. The company was the first to conduct field trials in November with its equipment supplier Ericsson. Idea too held EDGE field trials in February this year with its vendor Nokia. Hutch and BPL are yet to hold the trials. The two companies would eventually migrate to EDGE, but perhaps after seeing the response to Bharti?s service. EDGE holds the promise of delivering data speeds of around 170-180 kbps (as against the theoretical speed of around 380 kbps) which, if achieved, promises the launch of many data applications. The scalable cost of migrating from GPRS to EDGE is not too high and mainly comprises software upgrades in case of a modern network such as Bharti and Hutch, claimed chairman of GSA India chapter Rakesh Malik. Will GSM maintain its headstart? At the GSM Evolution Forum held in New Delhi, GSA president Alan Hadden predicted that GSM growth will far outstrip CDMA as was happening globally. He felt India could have as many as 100 million GSM subscribers by 2007-2008, up from nine million in December 2002. According to GSA, there are over 1 billion GSM subscribers worldwide as against 200 million CDMA customers. The revenue of top 25 global operators from data averages 18 per cent and 22 of these operators run GSM networks. Overall, there are 76 operators in 50 countries that have committed to deploy EDGE. Almost every country has a GSM based network and even those US operators which operated on now-defunct TDMA technology were migrating gradually to GSM, not CDMA, pointed out Hadden at the GSM Evolution Forum. The Forum is a global GSA programme to assist the operators for evolution to third generation (3G) technologies. ?People are using their phones for much more than voice. Fifteen networks have commercially launched EDGE as it can run 3G like services in the existing spectrum for the operators without needing a 3G license. Even the migration to a full-fledged 3G level of Wideband CDMA (WCDMA) will be smooth with EDGE,? said Hadden. ?Besides, the automatic roaming provided by GSM networks in almost 200 countries is a power that CDMA doesn?t give you. We know for sure that almost 20-25 per cent of the revenue for some GSM operators comes from roaming customers,? he added. But CDMA is no pushover with Korea and Philippines as the shining jewels in its crown. The first CDMA 2000 1X was commercially deployed in October 2000. Already, 81 operators have launched 77 CDMA 2000 1X networks whereas nine have launched services based on 1xEV-DO platform across Asia, the Americas and Europe. At least 16 new 1X and six 1xEV-DO networks are scheduled to be deployed in 2004, according to CDMA Development Group. EV-DO and EV-DV are the next level of evolution on the CDMA 2000 1X platform, capable of delivering services comparable to 3G WCDMA. Where are the models? What will matter a lot in this war will be the availability of EDGE compliant handsets at affordable rates. While the two CDMA operators have been giving out handsets that can give hi-speed data transfer, same has not been the case with GSM. Even now, GPRS handsets have not become commonplace and GPRS feature is found only in mid and high-end segment handsets. Edge handsets have just begun trickling in to the market. Nokia has launched 6220 and 3200 in India so far, while its? 7600 is a WCDMA phone. On the anvil is 7610, an enhanced GPRS phone. Siemens and others are close to launching a couple of EDGE sets this summer. In contrast, there are more than 524 CDMA handsets available in the market with colour displays, cameras and global positioning system (GPS) capabilities. Most of these can work on CDMA 2000 1X, delivering speeds almost like EDGE. End sum game: When EDGE is deployed by the networks, subscribers can expect the delivery of advanced mobile services such as easy downloading of video and music clips, full multimedia messaging, besides high-speed Internet and e-mail access, provided their handset supports all this. But the real cruncher will be the migration at a later stage to 3G technologies such as WCDMA, EV-DO or EV-DA as and when the government decides what to do with the 3G licences. WCDMA for example promises delivery of a phenomenal 2 megabytes per second (mbps), equivalent to what a leased line in many middle level corporates gives. More importantly, WCDMA will spawn a whole new range of full motion audio-video applications, including video telephony. GSM lobby may continue to remain gung ho over the future of their technologies over that boosted by the American firms Qualcomm and Motorola, but Indian market could well throw an interesting scenario that industry experts will do well to watch. In the coming months, Reliance plans to offer its CDMA subscribers much more than what GSM players intend to deliver through their EDGE for their subscribers. Who succeeds in this battle for mobile customer?s eyeballs is most difficult to predict. A Korea and Japan may not be waiting to happen in India, but India will probably be more like the Chinese market with both standards co-existing. For now, GSM rules!

Volume matters in business. Reliance understood this concept very well. Ford invented mass production, Reliance banks on it. So no loss for the buyer, same for the seller. Reliance has got the guts to do that, when no other company(anywhere in the world) dared to touch CDMA technology, reliance took the risk. CDMA Handset prices very really high, reliance brought them down. so dont disect.

Get another battery, keep it as standby. so you can charge the battery seperately.

More than anything rimweb.com helps reliance india mobile users better than their customer care executives in solving (or atleast understanding) our problems. But remember Reliance did this revolution in india(mobile revolution).

if you use for some downloads, better use download accelerator. becoz speed is very good. moreover speed normally depends upon the no. of users sharing the bandwith at any given point of time.

itz 100% true, the rates are on hourly basis, ie. min comes around rs.11 per hour during night times and double that during daytimes in higher end plans. so definetly rates are cheaper. apart from that 10 paise per min for isp is charged with reliance india phones. cables are also cheaper. contact ww for detailed tariff.

Better contact Nokia authorised service centre in your city.

Confrontation is not going to help. Discuss with reliance. Let it help both mutually.

Folks, What you people mean by installing programs in webworld computers? Please don't resort to these illegal activities.

What do you say?

clear names will remove all the names from your phonebook.

Reliance Info pre-paid base set to cross 1 Million Caption: "Reliance Info pre-paid base set to cross 1m" Source: Business Line, April 14, 2004 Mr Shukla said the current total subscriber base of Reliance Infocomm is around 7 million though pre-paid subscriber base is expected to overtake the post-paid base within this year itself. THE pre-paid subscriber base of Reliance Infocomm, which was launched nearly two months ago, is set to cross the 1-million mark soon even as the company has already withdrawn two post-paid schemes. "Our pre-paid scheme should cross the 1-million subscriber base soon," the Reliance Infocomm President for Wireless Products and Services, Mr S.P. Shukla, told Business Line. The scheme was launched in mid-February. But the company has withdrawn two of its major post-paid schemes quietly. The Monsoon Hangama scheme, introduced in July 2003, was withdrawn a few months ago. The scheme was for a limited period, while the Dhirubhai Ambani Pioneer Offer (DAPO), which was launched along with Reliance IndiaMobile service too stands withdrawn. The DAPO scheme put Reliance Infocomm on the fast track picking up a few million subscribers within a year of its launch. Reliance Infocomm has, however, continued with other post-paid offers such as Budget 149 and 249, Economy 149 schemes. Mr Shukla said the current total subscriber base of Reliance Infocomm is around 7 million though pre-paid subscriber base is expected to overtake the post-paid base within this year itself. He said unlike GSM operators whose subscriber base is heavily tilted towards pre-paid, Reliance base will be more balanced. He added that the post-paid, pre-paid ratio will be more balanced compared with that of GSM operators' subscriber base. Mr Shukla said as Reliance had extended data-rich handsets to even pre-paid subscribers, it had been able to push sales faster. However, the Internet based R-World, which offers live video of news and games, is expected to go pay from July 1. R-world gets nearly 40 million hits everyday. The Internet service provided on the handset has also made the company the leading ISP in the country. Mr Shukla said the pre-paid scheme has been made extremely flexible, which allows dealers to customise the scheme, according to the needs of the subscribers. For example, a subscriber can either opt for the standard scheme of Rs 3,500, which includes a handset, and 10 free vouchers of Rs 320 each or pay a lower amount but get lesser free vouchers. There are a total of 12 handsets which have been bundled with the schemes ranging from Rs 3,500 to Rs 35,000. Mr Shukla said the total cellular subscriber base of all operators was growing at around 2 million per month and Reliance Infocomm had a 30 per cent share of the market.