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iPhone 3G Unlock Hours Away But, if you happen to be on the latest firmware version, your wait for the unlocking might just get a tad longer. The yellowsn0w iPhone 3G unlock - about which we reported earlier, is just hours away from release. Initial reports confirmed its authenticity as the first credible iPhone unlocking tool. Yellowsn0w, as the unlocking tool has been christened, comes from the same set of people who developed Quickpwn, the first generation iPhone unlocking tool. It was just a matter of time when these set of individuals were able to reverse engineer and jailbreak the iPhone 3G. Apple did plug the exploit which allowed the unlocking with a recent software update. Hence, if you happen to be on the latest firmware version, your wait for the unlocking might just get a tad longer. Courtesy : Techtree

BSNL plans disaster recovery centre in Pune Business Line l 30 Dec l Pune To raise mobile subscriber base; plans more smaller exchanges. A new operational support and billing support centre is also being set up in Chinchwad with an investment of Rs 250 crore. Setting up a disaster recovery centre, a new operational support and billing support centre and installation of ERP system are plans BSNL (Bharat Sanchar Nigam Ltd) Pune has chalked out for itself for 2009. Mr V.K. Mahendra, Principal General Manager, told Business Line that a disaster recovery centre is being set up in Chinchwad in Pune on the lines of the disaster recovery centre in Bangalore. He said it would be set up at an investment of Rs 100 crore and is expected to be ready by August 2009. Billing centre Mr Mahendra said a new operational support and billing support centre is also being set up in Chinchwad with an investment of Rs 250 crore. He said it was part of the national network rolled out by BSNL, with the other support centres being set up at Hyderabad, Chandigarh and Kolkata. The Pune centre would take care of the billing of the entire western zone, which includes Gujarat, Maharashtra, Chhattisgarh and Madhya Pradesh. He said that the entire customer database of the western zone would also be stored in Pune. He said as a backup, the Chandigarh centre would act as the disaster recovery centre for Pune and vice versa while Hyderabad would be linked with Kolkata. He said the trial phase is already on and is being carried out at Kalyan and Bhopal and is expected to be completely operational by mid-2009. ERP solution Mr Mahendra said in keeping with the technology, BSNL Pune is all set to implement a modular ERP solution. This module would include financial, HR, sales and distribution, financial accounting, quality assurance. However, he said that it was only at the tendering stage and would take a couple of years to be implemented. Commenting on the Pune scenario, Mr Mahendra said it has already put up on the drawing board an Internet connectivity facility in the 2BHK apartments spread out in the city. He said the aim was to make available the Internet facility in all the 2BHK apartments in the city and noted that approximately 1.5 lakh connections would be made available by 2011. He said by March 2009, it would be setting up six smaller exchanges throughout the city. Currently, it has seven small exchanges in place and Vishranthwadi, Pimpri Chinchwad and Jagtap dairy, also in Chinchwad would be set up soon and the other three locations would be completed by March 2009. Mr Mahendra said broadband connections have been on the increase and currently it has about 32,000 connections in the city. It would be adding another 50,000 connections in 2009. It is also in the process of setting up 400 more BTS (base transceiver station) for the mobile segment and of this, 250 would be in the rural area and 150 in the city. At present, it has 200 BTS, of which 100 are in the rural area and 100 in urban. It has a three-lakh mobile subscriber base and is estimating to add another four lakh in 2009, he added.

BSNL gears up for global 3G, prepaid and GPRS roaming 9 Oct, 2008, 1623 hrs IST, PTI NEW DELHI: Ahead of its 3G services launch, state-run BSNL is getting ready to offer international roaming facility to its subscribers for prepaid, GPRS and 3G services. Presently, international roaming facility for BSNL subscribers consists of having a triple solution in SIM Cards for postpaid users. One solution is for the home network, other for international roaming through 'Direct International Roaming Agreements' with foreign operators and the third by piggy- backing on an existing international roaming service provider hub. A senior BSNL official said, as of now BSNL has signed GSM international roaming agreements for 339 networks in 170 countries, out of which 164 networks in 94 countries have been commercially launched for postpaid customers only. Connectivity has been established with a leading global GRX service provider for GPRS international roaming services. Testing with each of the operators is required for launching the GPRS international roaming services. Prepaid and 3G international roaming services are in the process of being launched in the BSNL network and accordingly the testing and launching of these services would also be involved, he said. The direct agreements of BSNL involves only one set of testing for whole of BSNL with the foreign operators for postpaid services. For GPRS, Prepaid and 3G services testing would involve the four zones of BSNL. All the testing would be carried out from BSNL's Kolkata office. BSNL has invited proposals from companies for carrying out testing in regard to international roaming service with the foreign GSM mobile operators and subsequent commercial launch of the service.

BSNL to start 3G services in Chennai Press Trust of India l 31 Dec l New Delhi State-run telecom operator Bharat Sanchar Nigam (BSNL) today said it plans to start next generation (3G) mobile services in Chennai and other circles next month. "We plan to roll-out 3G services by next month," BSNL Chariman and Managing Director Kuldeep Goyal told reporters here. The services are likely to be started from Chennai and other circles. While announcing the 3G policy, Communication and IT Minister A Raja had given an advantage to telecom PSUs - BSNL and MTNL - of allocating 3G spectrum ahead of others with a condition that both will pay the price equivalent to the highest bid. This was done keeping in mind the cumbersome process to procure equipment by the PSUs vis-a-vis by the private players. The government has deferred the 3G spectrum auction to January 30, delaying it by 15 days. As per the new revised timeline, the state-run operators might get lead lead over the private operators.

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ASUS Launches P565 in India ASUS has introduced the launch of their ASUS P565, with an 800 MHz processor running on a Microsoft Windows Mobile 6.1 Professional OS that easily makes it the fastest handset in the world at the time of this announcement. It was announced in November of this year and features ASUS’ touch-driven user interface – Glide. The handset comes with a leather-accented design and posted Vsbenchmark scores almost two times better than that of competing products in its class. About the launch of this new PDA phone Edward Wang, Business Head, Mobile Communication Business, ASUS (India) said, "The ASUS P565 is the fastest business PDA phone in the world with an uncompromising 800Mhz CPU, VGA screen and an elegant leather design. This phone is a fusion of unparalleled performance with unrivaled style to give the discerning business professional an ultimate productivity tool that fits in his pocket." Other features include : • 2.8-inch touch screen running at a resolution of 480 x 640 pixels • GPS with SatNav’s SatGuide map pre-loaded on it (information of 200+ cities and also 1.5 million destinations) • Wi-Fi, 3G capabilities with HSDPA speeds up to 3.56Mbps, EDGE/GPRS • MicroSD card support • 3 Megapixel AF camera • Java J2ME support The P565 also comes with a potent suite of business-oriented features and software, including push mail, business card recognition and Microsoft Office Mobile. Other useful applications such as Anytime Launcher and Multi-Home enable users to view their calendars, the times of local and visiting cities, weather reports, online news and much more—all with an intuitive tap, slide or flick of their fingers. The handset has been launched but ASUS has not revealed the official pricing for the same nor the actual availability of the device on shelves. Courtesy : Tech2

Telecom tariffs set to fall in 2009 Economic Times l 31 Dec l New Delhi Come 2009, telecom tariffs are set to fall significantly! Sector regulator TRAI on Wednesday set the ball rolling for lower tariffs by seeking the industry's views on reducing the interconnect charges (IUC). Since IUC charges constitute a significant amount of the call charges, any reduction in this will reflect in a direct fall in tariffs. Telecom minister A Raja had earlier told ET that a reduction in IUC tariffs coupled with increased competition with the entry of several new players could lead to local call tariffs being as low as 10 paise per minute and STD at about 25-35 paise per minute by 2010. Inetrconnect Usage Charges are those charges that are payable by one telecom operator to the others for use of their networks either for origination, termination or carriage of a call. Inter operator calls constitute a major part of the total calls handled by the telecommunications network. These charges are important as they can transfer network costs between operators and thus affect their relative scale and prosperity. IUC charges can be best illustrated as follows: If a Bharti Airtel customer were to make a call to a Vodafone user, the latter can charge up to 30 paise per minute for terminating the call on its network. Similarly, if the same call were to be carried on the optic cable fibre of say BSNL, the state-owned telco can charge a maximum of 72 paise per minute for carrying the call. Therefore, a significant amount that a customer pays for a mobile call is constituted by IUC charges. The current regime is as follows: Mobile termination charge ranges from Rs 0.13 to Rs 0.30 per minute Fixed termination charge varies from Rs 0.19 to Rs 0.28 minute Average Carriage Charges per minute after considering the cost in respect of all NLDOs ranges from Rs 0.16 to Rs 0.72 per minute These charges were fixed way back in 2002-03 and have not been reviewed since then, even as the overall call tariffs have by over 300% during the same time period. The regulator will announce a reduction in IUC charges after it receives inputs from the industry. In addition to lower tariffs, a reduction in IUC charges will also enable several of the new players who were granted telecom licences earlier this year to reduce their operational costs when they launch services. New entrants and some of the existing operators have been demanding a reduction in IUC tariffs for a long time. "Establishment of IUC is therefore an activity of far reaching consequences for the telecommunications sector. It enables competition, welfare of customers and sustained growth of telecom and development of the country. It determines revenue accruals and its dispersal among networks and services and promotes their development in correct measure," TRAI said in a statement on Wednesday.

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^^^ Thanks for the information my dear friend. It could be useful for many members.

^^^ Bluetooth Headset / Handsfree, could be used to make a call from this gadget my dear friend.

Wishing all our Rimwebians a very Happy and Prosperous New Year.

^^^ My dear friend, their are many other benefits of these Data Cards. Like they are small in size and don't need battery backup like mobile handsets. Data Cards get the power from USB itself. If anyone use mobile for net surfing then its for sure the battery of the handset will be gone within 6 months. Another thing is that, you cannot recieve or make calls if you are using mobile for surfing. Thats not the case with Data Cards.

My dear Kumaar Bhai, I had stated that Reliance GSM Sims are avialable with local dealers only. Web Worlds only got POSTERS by now. Hope they too will get the Sims soon. Regards.

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My dear friends, just seen on the television that their is firing in 4 places in Mumbai. Many people hurts in the firing. Firing occured at Nariman Point, Colaba, VT Station, Taj Hotel, Capitol Cinema. It seems Terrorists had now changed their way to create Panic among innocent people. They fired several rounds by Machine Guns openly. So members from Mumbai please take care.

Twin tracks to broadband nirvana Business Line With the upcoming auction of spectrum in 3G and WiMAX Indian telecom is at historic cross roads. Anand Parthasarathy suggests why these technologies need to complement, not compete.. TV on mobile: Visitors at the BSNL stand of the Indian Telecom show experience TV on mobile phone and laptop, harnessing 3G networks. Remember the nursery rhyme about a child offered a choice between pudding and pie: “Which would you rather?/Asked her father/‘Both’ said Jane/Quite bold and plain.” Children don’t like making a choice between goodies that they love. And so it is for nations, which are pushed by vested interests, industry lobbies and a breathless media into choosing between competing technologies that promise a broadband telecom nirvana. Headlines that shout ‘WiMAX 3G’ or ‘The Big Fight’ or ‘Cyber shakeout’ seriously distort the issue, suggesting that there is some sort of ‘dharma sankat’ in deciding India’s future communication roadmap. WiMAX Tablet: Nokia’s N810 Internet Tablet lets you switch from WiFi to WiMAX at will. But why compete when cooperation is indicated? That ugly word ‘coopetition,’ in fact, puts it succinctly: The twin technologies, both with spectrum up for grabs through an auctioner’s gavel, are not, as they are often made out to be, exclusive. And sane planning will ensure that India benefits from the lessons learnt by faster, early movers, profit from the growing maturity of both technologies, and chart a course that will make the mathematically impossible happen: parallel tracks meeting to achieve national goals. What, then, are the options? 3G is the third generation of telecommunication standards for mobile networking based on specifications created by the International Telecommunication Union (ITU) under the family ‘ITU 2000.’ Using High Speed Packet Access (HSPA), 3G gives mobile telephony operators the ability to offer a combination of voice, video and broadband data services at rates up to 14.4 megabits for a second one way (down link) and 5.8 MBPS, the other direction (uplink). It is important to understand that unlike WiFi, which is a short range, wireless data system, 3G is a wide area technology that rides the cellular phone networks and extends high-speed Internet access and television to the mobile phone. 3G became a reality in 2001, when NTT DoCoMo, the Japanese operator, first offered it to its subscribers, using a technology (FOMA) that has today evolved into what is known as W-CDMA or Wideband CDMA. This is the path that all cellular operators working in the GSM or Global System for Mobile communication need to follow to go 3G. The other cell-phone technology, CDMA or Code Division Multiple Access, has its own upgrade path to 3G and it is called CDMA2000. WiMAX or Worldwide interoperability for Microwave Access is a wireless telecommunications technology based on the IEEE 802.16 standard with a theoretical top speed of 70-75 MBPS and unlike WiFI (802.11), its range is not measured in dozens of metres but extends up to 50 km. However, you can’t have your cake and eat it too: you can have 50 km of range at reduced data speeds or top speeds at much shorter distances, not both at the same time. WiMAX has been successfully used in conjunction with 2G or even 3G cellular technologies to provide the ‘back haul’, carrying the signal over dozens of km to a point from where it can drive a cellular mobile network. In that sense, WiMAX was a wireless but stationary technology…. till 2005, when a new WiMAX standard, 802.16e, came into being, defining the use of WIMAX on mobile platforms, such as phones. It is this last development that led to the rash of WiMAX v 3G headlines: now both have the ability to fuel similar data speeds on mobile platforms. While mobile WiMAX is an attractive proposition in itself, the world’s cellular phone industry clearly has a vested interest in going 3G along its own technology path rather than switching to WiMAX. But the ‘unconnected’ of the world still exceed the connected — so WiMAX evangelists see a clear and present opportunity. Official India has tended to see WiMAX as the broadband technology for proliferating into the rural hinterland, a sort of aam janatha thing. 3G, on the other hand, is being projected as something that is for the premier customer of mobile phones. (See ‘Roll out obligations: WiMAX players seek level playing field’ in Business Line, December 23) Need this be so? No, says Kanwalinder Singh, Senior Vice-President of Qualcomm, US, and President of its India operation, a company that has moved beyond being a supplier of intellectual property that drives the CDMA business to a broad role in digital wireless communications. PC alternative 3G on PC: Qualcomm India President, Kanwalinder Singh, with the Kayak Alternative PC. At the India Telecom show in Delhi earlier this month, he showed this correspondent a PC-like machine with an extremely small footprint, hardly bigger than a DVD player. Attached to a standard PC monitor, it becomes what Qualcomm calls a ‘PC Alternative’ or Kayak PC: a full featured Internet access device supporting standard keyboard and mouse, running a Linux operating system and an Opera browser, doubling as 3-D games machine and music player. What’s special about the Kayak is that it is one of the first PCs to come 3G-enabled. Qualcomm’s Mobile Station Modem (MSM) chip set can latch on to the nearest 3G phone network, just as a data card does for laptops and 2G today. At India Telecom, MTNL had just installed a free trial 3G network — and using MTNL’s own metering tool I measured the download speed of a large picture file using the Kayak at an amazing 1.5 Mbps … a speed I had never experienced before, using a mobile phone connection. Qualcomm has launched a solution called Snapdragon, which will allow a host of hand-held devices to switch seamlessly between available 2G, 3G or WiFI networks — and the result will see a new category of global broadband Internet devices hit the market next year. Companies such as Qualcomm want to buck the trend and project 3G as a technology to penetrate emerging mass markets rather than something that provides the icing on the cake for premier phone users. If Snapdragon can turn a PC into a phone like mobile device, why not do the reverse? Mainstream PC chip players such as Intel are doing just that — and they are doing it the WiMAX way. A few weeks ago in Baltimore, US, Intel joined with Sprint to launch the fastest mobile broadband network in that country, which, speed-wise, should be called 4G rather than 3G. Using Intel’s new combined WiFi-WiMAX module, ‘EchoPeak’ will help many PC makers bridge the gap to broadband very soon. At the Baltimore event, Nokia unveiled its new N810 WiMAX-enabled Internet tablet, with full qwerty key pad, 2 GB of memory, a 4 inch display and a Linux system…. A phone on steroids that looks very much like a PC. Even more traditionally styled smart phones such as the Nokia N97 or Motorola’s M 75 become hand-held computers once they are fuelled by 3G. The MC75 now available in India supports both CDMA and GSM 3G standards as well as all flavours of WiFi. “It unleashes the power of convergence, allowing a field force to take decisions in real time,” says Motorola’s regional sales director (enterprise mobility), Jayant Rustogi. Intel is partnering with the WiMAX Forum to bring a number of affordable WiMAX-ready devices to India in the coming weeks. Bridging digital divide Meanwhile, many Indian States are going ahead with industry partners, putting in place broadband networks to bridge the digital divide: Chhattisgarh has teamed with Nortel on one hand and Juniper on the other to create a State Wide Area Network (SWAN), partly wired, partly wireless (WiFi, WiMAX) that is already making the State a model for its e-governance initiatives. Nortel has completed similar projects in the North-Eastern states, while Juniper’s solutions have been used in Himachal Pradesh and Bihar. In fixed network broadband, Alcatel-Lucent is a leader with significant presence in India and partnerships with many telecom providers. Ericsson has launched the Gramjyoti Rural Broadband project to bring the benefits of cellular 3G technologies such as WCDMA and HSPA to rural India. It has been promoting a term, BWA for Broadband Wireless Access, that would include elements of WiMAX and cellular broadband. That may well be a harbinger of the way things will shake out in future, a ‘masala mix’ of appropriate broadband technologies, 3G, WiMAX, or whatever to connect the unconnected of India, where the situation on the ground decides what works best — not corporate preferences or political expediency. Let’s hope IT’s a happy and ‘connected’ New Year!

^^^ Well, the tariffs and call rates will be updated in a COUPLE OF YEARS on their website my dear Praveen. Yaar, you know, how silly these Reliance people are.

best of luck as and when u get one bb for urself Thanks my dear friend. I'm going to buy one soon.

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^^^ My dear Swathi, 6600 could be the better choice as of now. Its reasonably priced and a feature rich handset.

^^^ MY dear Santhosh, even if someone want to pay and use this BSNL Data Card in Roaming, then also he's not allowed to use the same in Roaming. Can't say, what could be the logic behind this. This is no good of BSNL Regards.