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I have not yet bought the pen drive and am contemplating buying it. Here is some more info Strontium if any one is interested in the same.... CBI/CID bhai, pls investigate more thoroughly and post here your investigations.... The Indian Distributors contacts are here

Ditto here too, I tried Bill and also BILL both returned the same message. IMHO, Vodafone is much much much superior here. They have it in Chennai TN with *111# which gives many sub-options and of which all work to the 'T' RCOM has just tried a very lame attempt at copying Vodafone.

Sorry this is slightly Off topic but nevertheless a very good read - I’m sure you’ve read this before but its worth reading again! ONE OF THE BEST STORIES I'VE EVER HEARD!!!!!! As she stood in front of her 5th grade class on the very first day of school, she told the children an untruth. Like most teachers, she looked at her students and said that she loved them all the same. However, that was impossible, because there in the front row, slumped in his seat, was a little boy named Teddy Stoddard. Mrs. Thompson had watched Teddy the year before and noticed that he did not play well with the other children, that his clothes were messy and that he constantly needed a bath. In addition, Teddy could be unpleasant. It got to the point where Mrs. Thompson would actually take delight in marking his papers with a broad red pen, making bold X's and then putting a big "F" at the top of his papers. At the school where Mrs. Thompson taught, she was required to review each child's past records and she put Teddy's off until last. However, when she reviewed his file, she was in for a surprise. Teddy's first grade teacher wrote, "Teddy is a bright child with a ready laugh. He does his work neatly and has good manners... he is a joy to be around.." His second grade teacher wrote, "Teddy is an excellent student, well liked by his classmates, but he is troubled because his mother has a terminal illness and life at home must be a struggle." His third grade teacher wrote, "His mother's death has been hard on him. He tries to do his best, but his father doesn't show much interest, and his home life will soon affect him if some steps aren't taken." Teddy's fourth grade teacher wrote, "Teddy is withdrawn and doesn't show much interest in school. He doesn't have many friends and he sometimes sleeps in class." By now, Mrs. Thompson realized the problem and she was ashamed of herself. She felt even worse when her students brought her Christmas presents, wrapped in beautiful ribbons and bright paper, except for Teddy's. His present was clumsily wrapped in the heavy, brown paper that he got from a grocery bag. Mrs. Thompson took pains to open it in the middle of the other presents. Some of the children started to laugh when she found a rhinestone bracelet with some of the stones missing, and a bottle that was one-quarter full of perfume. But she stifled the children's laughter when she exclaimed how pretty the bracelet was, putting it on, and dabbing some of the perfume on her wrist. Teddy Stoddard stayed after school that day just long enough to say, "Mrs. Thompson, today you smelled just like my Mom used to." After the children left, she cried for at least an hour. On that very day, she quit teaching reading, writing and arithmetic. Instead, she began to teach children. Mrs. Thompson paid particular attention to Teddy. As she worked with him, his mind seemed to come alive. The more she encouraged him, the faster he responded. By the end of the year, Teddy had become one of the smartest children in the class and, despite her lie that she would love all the children the same, Teddy became one of her "teacher's pets.." A year later, she found a note under her door, from Teddy, telling her that she was the best teacher he ever had in his whole life. Six years went by before she got another note from Teddy. He then wrote that he had finished high school, third in his class, and she was still the best teacher he ever had in life. Four years after that, she got another letter, saying that while things had been tough at times, he'd stayed in school, had stuck with it, and would soon graduate from college with the highest of honors. He assured Mrs. Thompson that she was still the best and favorite teacher he had ever had in his whole life. Then four more years passed and yet another letter came. This time he explained that after he got his bachelor's degree, he decided to go a little further. The letter explained that she was still the best and favorite teacher he ever had. But now his name was a little longer.... The letter was signed, Theodore F. Stoddard, MD. The story does not end there. You see, there was yet another letter that spring. Teddy said he had met this girl and was going to be married. He explained that his father had died a couple of years ago and he was wondering if Mrs. Thompson might agree to sit at the wedding in the place that was usually reserved for the mother of the groom. Of course, Mrs. Thompson did. And guess what? She wore that bracelet, the one with several rhinestones missing. Moreover, she made sure she was wearing the perfume that Teddy remembered his mother wearing on their last Christmas together. They hugged ea ch other, and Dr. Stoddard whispered in Mrs. Thompson's ear, "Thank you Mrs. Thompson for believing in me. Thank you so much for making me feel important and showing me that I could make a difference." Mrs. Thompson, with tears in her eyes, whispered back. She said, "Teddy, you have it all wrong. You were the one who taught me that I could make a difference. I didn't know how to teach until I met you." (For you that don't know, Teddy Stoddard is the Dr. at Iowa Methodist in Des Moines that has the Stoddard Cancer Wing.) Warm someone's heart today. . . pass this along. I love this story so very much, I cry every time I read it. Just try to make a difference in someone's life today? tomorrow? just "do it". Random acts of kindness, I think they call it! "Believe in Angels, then return the favor" Mods/Admins: I thought of posting this story in General Chat - 'Non SMS Stuff' topic, but then I thought why not here. If it is inappropriate here, please move it to where it should belong.

@rajan / kesav / jayanth, does the report imply that ADA as also Tatas and others are in very deep ****? If yes, it is indeed sad.... @ Rajan, Please change yr username to CID Rajan or CBI Rajan.... You are doing a terrific job digging out investigative reports. +1 to you.

The Importance of Walking My grandpa started walking five miles a day when he was 60. Now he's 97 years old and we don't know where he is. Walking can add minutes to your life. This enables you at 85 years old to spend an additional 5 months in a nursing home at $7000 per month. I like long walks, especially when they are taken by people who annoy me. The only reason I would take up walking is so that I could hear heavy breathing again. I have to walk early in the morning, before my brain figures out what I'm doing. I joined a health club last year, spent about 400 bucks. Haven't lost a pound. Apparently you have to go there. Every time I hear the dirty word 'exercise', I wash my mouth out with chocolate. The advantage of exercising every day is so when you die, they'll say, 'Well, she looks good doesn't she.' If you are going to try cross-country skiing, start with a small country. I know I got a lot of exercise the last few years,...... just getting over the hill. We all get heavier as we get older, because there's a lot more information in our heads. That's my story and I'm sticking to it. AND Every time I start thinking too much about how I look, I just find a Happy Hour and by the time I leave, I look just fine. @ The Six-Pack Abs Doctor - the above is dedicated to you...... just joking, don't take it seriously....

5 weekends in one month !!! This year July has 5 Fridays, 5 Saturdays n 5 Sundays. This happens once every 823 years. .'''''''''''''''''''''''''''''' Parsee Gujarati Poem: :short, simple & meaningful Gami te malti nathi. Mali te faavti nathi. Faavi teni saathe maja aavti nathi. Ane, maja ave tevi kaayam reheti nathi............... Have a guess !!!!!!!!!!!!!! And scroll down Tenu naam - NOKRI........... Tame su samajya - CHHOKRI? """""""""""""""""""" Wife and Girlfriend Wife is like a TV, Girlfriend is like a MOBILE. At home u watch TV,But when u go out u take ur MOBILE. Sometimes u enjoy TV, But most of the time u play with ur MOBILE. TV is free for life, But for the MOBILE, if you don't pay, the services will be terminated. TV is big, bulky and most of the time old, But the MOBILE is cute, slim, curvy and very portable. Operational costs for TV is often acceptable, But for the MOBILE it is often high and demanding. TV has a remote, MOBILE doesn't. Most importantly, MOBILE is a two-way communication (u talk and listen), But with the TV you MUST only listen (whether you want to or not). Last but not least .. TVs don't have viruses, But MOBILEs often do! ====================================================================== SMILE PLEASE - Medical exam, that too free!!!! Can't Afford a Medical Exam ? If you can't afford a doctor, go to an airport in USA with a Pakistani Passport. .. - you'll get a free x-ray and a pat down, and . . . -if you mention Al Queda, you get a colonoscopy too. """""""""""""""""""""""""""""

Facebook: This day Awaits us all ... The 76-year-old woman Walked Down the hallway of Clearview Addiction Clinic, Searching for the right department. She passed signs for the 'Heroin Addiction Department (HAD)', the 'Smoking Addiction Department (SAD)' and the 'Bingo Addiction Department (BAD)'. Then she spotted the department she was looking for: 'Facebook Addiction Department (FAD)'. It was the busiest department in the clinic, with about three dozen people filling the waiting room, most of them staring blankly into their Blackberries and i-Phones. A middle-aged man with unkept hair was pacing the room, muttering, "I need to milk my cows. I need to milk my cows." A twenty-something man was prone on the floor, his face buried in his hands, while a curly-haired woman comforted him, "Don't worry. It'll be all right." "I just don't understand it. I thought my update was LOL-worthy, but none of my friends even clicked the 'like' button." "How long has it been?" "Almost five minutes. That's like five months in the real world." The 76-year-old woman waited until her name was called, then followed the receptionist into the office of Alfred Zulu, Facebook Addiction Counselor. "Please have a seat, Edna," he said with a warm smile. "And tell me how it all started." "Well, it's all my grandson's fault. He sent me an invitation to join Facebook. I had never heard of Facebook before, but I thought it was something for me, because I usually have my face in a book." " "How soon were you hooked?" "Faster than you can say 'create a profile.' I found myself on Facebook at least eight times each day -- and more times at night. Sometimes I'd wake up in the middle of the night to check it, just in case there was an update from one of my new friends in India . My husband didn't like that. He said that friendship is a precious thing and should never be outsourced.""What do you like most about Facebook?" "What do you like MOST about Facebook?" "It makes me feel like I have a life. In the real world, I have only five or six friends, but on Facebook, I have 674. " Even I'm Friends With Juan Carlos Montoya. " "Who's he?" "I don't know, but he's got 4,000 friends, so he must be famous." "Facebook has helped you make some connections, I see." "Oh yes. I've even connected with some of the gals from high school -- I still call them 'gals.' I hadn't heard from some of them in ages, so it was exciting to look at their profiles and figure out who's retired, who's still working, and who's had some work done. I love browsing their photos and reading their updates. I know where they've been on vacation, which movies they've watched, and whether they hang their toilet paper over or under. I've also been playing a game with some of them." "Let me guess. Farmville?" "No, Mafia Wars. I'm a Hitman. No one messes with Edna." "Wouldn't you rather meet some of your friends in person?" "No, not really. It's so much easier on Facebook. We don't need to gussy ourselves up. We don't need to take baths or wear perfume or use mouthwash. That's the best thing about Facebook -- you can't smell anyone. Everyone is attractive, because everyone has picked a good profile pic. One of the gals is using a profile pic that was taken, I'm pretty certain, during the Eisenhower Administration. " "What pic are you using?" "Well, I spent five hours searching for a profile pic, but couldn't find one I really liked. So I decided to visit the local beauty salon." "To make yourself look prettier?" "No, to take a pic of one of the young ladies there. That's what I'm using." "Didn't your friends notice that you look different?" "Some of them did, but I just told them I've been doing lots of yoga." "When did you realize that your Facebooking might be a problem?" "I realized it last Sunday night, when I was on Facebook and saw a message on my wall from my husband: 'I moved out of the house five days ago. Just thought you should know.'" "What did you do?" "What else? I unfriended HIM of course!"

2G spectrum scam: CBI questions Anil Ambani here Some more news : - 2G spectrum scam: Anil Ambani meets CBI officials here

Kamalbhai, You have scripted a very good and humorous PICHKAARI Sholay sub story.... Good One, +1 to you....

And what happens to the old car - does it become unregd and requires a new registration or is it automatic? The new buyer would have to shell out much money for re-regn or new regn...

@confused_follower, Thanks for the good joke in the health sector..... +1 to you

Yet another comedy movie waiting to be scripted by our Rajan Mehta........ Sorry Rajan, don't get offended, just joking....

Absolutely 100% true analysis of RCOM's total stupidity.... God save us from RCOM.... +1 to you...

@Rajan Mehta, From the above recorded instances of idiotic MNP implementation, I think you are the best person to script out a mind-blowing comedy for all of us at RW.. Reading the episodes makes me laugh at us Indians for what we really are.... It is indeed sad that the GoI and the TRAI and the DoT etc etc are taking us customers for a jolly good ride.... Thankfully, I did not port in with any other provider as all the mobiles I have are important numbers and absence of service for even one or two hours is very critical. Here we are talking of so many days..... But you were lucky, as also Saurav if I remember right.....

Read the following links for more on this spectrum tussle: - Pawar denies links with DB Realty's Shahid Balwa here AIADMK chief Jayalalithaa's statement here Jayalalithaa links 2G scam money to DMK-TV here DMK channel Kalaignar says it has no link to 2G money trail here 2G spectrum scam: Rules were tweaked to help Tata Teleservices, says Justice Patil report here

TRAI recommends six-fold hike in price of start-up 2G spectrum Courtesy: ET NEW DELHI: In a development that has huge financial implications for existing as well as new operators, telecom regulator TRAI has recommended fixing the price for 6.2 Mhz of pan-India start-up 2G spectrum at Rs 10,972.45 crore, more than six times the present cost of Rs 1,658 crore. In its recommendations to the Department of Telecom (DoT), Trai has also said that every Mhz of additional spectrum (on an all-India basis) beyond the contracted limit of 6.2 Mhz would cost a massive Rs 4,571.87 crore. Most of the telecom firm, including Bharti , Vodafone , Idea and state-owned companies like BSNL and MTNL , hold extra spectrum beyond 6.2 Mhz and the new norms would put a huge financial burden on these telcos. In addition, the licences of some of the operators, including Bharti, are due for renewal after completing 20 years periodicity in several circles. Such companies would have to pay to renew their licences as per the new norms recommended by TRAI. When contacted, TRAI Chairman J S Sarma told PTI, "Yes we have submitted the recommendations to the DoT on the revised norms for 2G spectrum pricing." According to the report, the spectrum prices for both categories -- up to 6.2 Mhz and beyond 6.2 Mhz -- vary from circle to circle. In the category of up to 6.2 Mhz of spectrum, the prices of one Mhz varies from Rs 7.60 crore in the case of Jammu and Kashmir to Rs 187.38 crore in the case of Tamil Nadu. In the category of beyond 6.2 Mhz of spectrum, the price varies form between Rs 22.89 crore per Mhz in Jammu and Kashmir to a maximum of Rs 431.95 crore in Andhra Pradesh. The revised prices recommended by TRAI are effective from April 1, 2010, the report said.

Very tough to ask other network users to switch to RCOM, but nevertheless, a good opportunity for RCOM employees to earn some really good freebies. But this is applicable only for RCOM postpaid with a minimum rental of Rs 99 per month and all INPs are excluded... .

Seems like RCOM and AirHell guys have joined BSNL, together they want to destroy BSNL forever.....

This offer was already there from 20th Jan 2011, I don't see anything new in this. Atleast in Chennai/TN, it was there - not too sure about RoI.

@Rajan, Mind-blowing plan you have got from the 'kanjoos' Voda fellows Hope you will not jump now.... Enjoy the pug once again....

You sure have them by their "balls" Squeeze out the max....

@Purane Nagme, You got that one wrong, The 'Gujju Tamil' is not me by any yardstick, I am not all that 'great' Hope you got it right now. And I still fell splitting and starting a new Topic would be better to get more 'eyeballs' Anyway, lets wait and see what others responses are...

I do not think anyone in BSNL can ever reply you satisfactorily. Better ask CID Rajan to shoot off a letter to Uncle Sam - he may be able to get the proper reply. Just joking, "Holi' Rajan Bro.

Terrific sense of humour Rajan, I almost fell off my chair while reading and my eyes also were crying with the laughter generated..My office staff who were watching me read this and laughing all along, must be thinking I have gone bonkers.... And last but the least, Purane Nagme deserves more than the one liner you have on him. @Purane Nagme - This post of Rajan deserves to be split and made into a separate topic. Atleast thats what I feel as no one seems to have still read it - maybe Sholay is too 'Purane' now... Also please answer Rajan's question on 'when is Holi?' @ Six Pack Abs Doctor, You will agree with me as all others at RW also will - there will be no better comic Holi than what Rajan CID has scripted for us. Arre 1st and also all prizes, inko hi de dijiye.

@rajan, Congrats on switching over to a better operator in Mumbai. But I think you will still enjoy the nuisance of the Airtel Digital TV SMS' because your number is still the same and moreover you will have to register under the revised DND (or whatever it is called now) Enjoy the pug......