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ofcourse the distance is dead in joy 399 plan. where you pay flat rs.1 for mobile to mobile calls anywhere in india and rs.2.50 to any landline calls anywhere in india. You can check for more info on this at the New Tariffs thread!

regarding charging during using rconnect. there is a seperate cable availabe where you can connect the travel charger to the r connect cable, so it gets charged while using rconnect.

R World will be free till the customers get hooked to it.

yes, itz happening everywhere, because of globalisation without rationalisation. when people become copycats without realising their self this happens.

The Economic Times Online Are we ready for number portability? [ SUNDAY, MARCH 28, 2004 12:10:53 AM ] It could be the next big thing for cellular service providers and for subscribers. Number portability or retaining a cell number, even when dumping inefficient service providers, will give Indian mobile users the real freedom of choice that they are looking for. But regulator Trai does not yet have the policy framework in place even though DoT 's technical wing TEC, wants NP to come to India by 2004-end. In fact, IIM, Ahmedabad has submitted a paper with recommendations on the issue to Trai which shows that it could offer unbridled freedom to subscribers to retain single telephone numbers throughout their lifetime facilitating seamless migration from one service to another and from one technical platform to another Says Trai chief Pradip Baijal: “We have enough and more competition in the marketplace already. And even in the US, number portability was introduced after 30-35 years when the industry had stabilised. Then again, we have to see whether number portability should be allowed only among mobile phones or within mobile and fixed line phones or within a circle.” The regulator also feels that permitting number portability between circles could have an impact on long distance calls too. “Our networks are not so developed that we can afford number portability. We are studying it, but it is not top priority,” Baijal adds. Trai is in the process of preparing a consultation paper on this issue which could be presented for discussions within the next couple of months. Analysts are not too sure that number portability is what industry needs right now. “I'm not sure if it will help the service providers too much. We've seen more price wars and the overall industry losing value with number portability. I'm sure it means that customers will find it much more convenient to switch between suppliers. But then we're likely to see massive churn in the industry with administration costs going up without any increase in real value. I'd expect this could lead to more market consolidation,” says Abraham. Ramachandran agrees: “The industry is already hyper competitive and the churn levels are more than 50-60% even without number portability. In fact, the 4-5% per month rate of customers changing service providers is quite alarming even by global standards.” In fact, even service providers themselves are divided on the issues of NP. “If it does not include the incumbent operator, then it would be a meaningless execs. In the GSM world the large number of prepaid customers coupled with high churn rates is testimony to the fact that the desire to keep the original number is not so high as of now. However, if implemented, over the period of time, operators with good quality of services are likely to gain,” feels Mehmi. Of course, even in industry, NP has its supporters. “It is the logical extension of deregulation and liberalisation in the space and could take competition to a whole new level. It could also become the ultimate tool for consumer protection and is known to have benefited early adopters like Sweden, The Netherlands, Denmark, Australia and Hong Kong with huge cost benefits,” says an E&Y official. “As the largest mobile operator in the country, we would welcome number portability. It would be a great help to large customers who could then chose the more efficient service provider,” feels Bharti’s Gupta. As far as the customer is concerned, number portability will ensure that they are the king in the mobile world.

Better there should be an international standard, and it should be followed by all operators and handset manufacturers.

does anybody got gtran? how is it?

storing numbers and id - itz a big headache in reliance. in case of tata even if you store numbers without the 0's your id works perfectly. reliance has do something on this, to avoid the confusion. i hope they do at the earliest.

congragulations!!!!!!! first victim!!!!!!! just pretend as you know nothing.

Great job chirag keep it up..

hey guys be carefull with cheaper ones. they heat up your handset, which in turn result in less battery life and handset.

yeah..yeah... mukesh bhai is waiting for you.... even he is not ready to give 4% of share for QUALCOMM, when they are ready to pay 10% for that.

15 second pulse is not possible. unless otherwise TRAI implements it to everyone. because of interconnectivy agreements. better TRAI impose 1 second pulse for everyone. so pay for what you talk. not for unused time.

if you can sell those voucher, you can make a good profit. but what about a buyer?

use travel charger. it doesnt leaves any mark on the battery. its convenient.

so VSNL performs better under TATA management.

20/03/04 12:53:02 Airtel, Idea charge more for calls to CDMA NEW DELHI: It's not just Hutch but Airtel and Idea as well who've been overcharging for calls to CDMA mobile subscribers of Reliance and Tata Indicom.. Earlier, Airtel and Idea officials denied charging more for calls to CDMA networks (See: 'Hutch charges more for calls to CDMA' in Wednesday's Business Times). Hutch had accepted it was charging about 80 paise per minute more for calling CDMA numbers, saying it was not sure whether to invest in upgrading billing systems because Reliance and Tata Indicom were to switch to a numbering plan with '9' as first digit for mobile services. ''We ended differential tariffs for pre-paid from February. But due to over 150 tariff plans and many billing cycles, we couldn't immediately effect changes for post-paid,'' said an Airtel official. ''From this month (March 9 billing cycle), customers will not pay differential tariffs.'' An Idea official said they were ending differential tariffing but were facing problems with making changes in billing system at one go. He was unable to give dates for the complete change. A Hutch spokesman said since the new numbering plans of Reliance and Indicom were not on the horizon, ''We also will start charging same rates for calls to CDMA from next billing cycle.'' Source: The Times of India

even i had the same problem with usb, but it worked some time on its own and again failed. so i switched over to com.

RIM's pre-paid offers may end soon AJOY K DAS TIMES NEWS NETWORK[ SUNDAY, MARCH 21, 2004 11:45:41 PM ] KOLKATA: A rapidly-growing subscriber base is likely to prompt Reliance Infocomm to soon change its bundled offer for Reliance India Mobile?s (RIM) prepaid service, reports Ajoy K Das in Kolkata. In effect, days of the entry-level offer of Rs 3,500 along with Rs 3,240-worth of free recharge vouchers, may be numbered. Reliance Infocomm is currently working on several bundled packages. The timing of their introduction in the market will be disclosed, as soon as the targetted critical mass of prepaid subscribers is achieved. ?The current scheme for RIM prepaid is an introductory offer and customers should avail of it while it is on. This offer will definitely come to an end as all schemes do. I cannot disclose the date, but its longevity will be linked to achieving a critical mass of prepaid subscribers,? SP Shukla, president, wireless products & services, Reliance Infocomm told ET. ?Nobody can continue an offer indefinitely. The longevity of any scheme is governed by the critical mass or numbers that one has in mind. Also, over a period of time a scheme starts to give diminishing returns out of fatigue or competition comes out with a better offer,? Mr Shukla said. ?In our case, the third reason is ruled out because Infocomm is giving away, a value almost equal to the cost of handset, free. We are working on several bundled options to replace the introductory scheme. But any offer that we will come out with, will address the key concern of a customer, which is the entry-level barrier in terms of cost and recurring costs,? he added. Though mum?s the word on the exact date when the new packages will be introduced, indications are that RIM prepaid, which was launched just over a month ago, is fast gaining on the number of subscribers and the targeted critical mass may be very near. The free recharge voucher offer, worth Rs 3,240 along with the entry-level handset costing Rs 3,500, may come to an end sooner than expected. According to Mr Shukla, it is still too premature to peg an estimate on the exact growth in the number of prepaid RIM subscribers, simply because apart from the major cities, the launch has not completed a full month in the 1,122 cities and towns where the service has been unrolled. The second month would be the right time to assess the growth figures after all geographies have had a full month of prepaid service.

i think you have dialled do not disturb no.

yeah youre right. it will add more confusion, more problems. we already got handfull.

Reliance Infocomm To Roll Out 350 New Stores Source: Business Standard, December 2, 2003 Reliance Infocomm is expected to roll out 350 Reliance WebWorld outlets by December 28, taking the total number of stores to 600. Sarup Chowdhary, chief executive officer, Reliance Webstore Pvt Ltd said, “These stores are part of the total 777 stores planned by the company to connect small towns and villages in the country.” At present, 250 Reliance WebWorlds are spread across 110 towns. Each WebWorld store has three key modules - a customer convenience centre selling infocomm products, Java Green, a gourmet coffee bar and broadband centre for video chat and conferencing, online gaming, digital personalised music, digital theatre and photo imaging, virtual office and real broadband surfing.

it seems reliance people are going to open more webworlds and geographicaly map customers to the nearest webworld, for better customer support. these people will also manage broadband business.

will number change happen or not, anybody knows for sure???

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