Honest 836 Report post Posted June 13, 2008 BSNL tie-up with data provider 13 Jun, 2008, 1445 hrs IST, PTI MADURAI: Bharat Sanchar Nigam Ltd(BSNL) has entered into agreement with the Unstructured Supplementary Service data Provider--Contakt Technical Solutions--to provide "BSNL Expert alerts",a Value added service to be introduced for the cell one mobile users for the first time in South India, two officials said. Talking to reporters here, S E Rajam and V K Sanjeevi,General Managers,Mobile services,and BSNL Madurai area, said initially alert services would be given in 21 different subjects including Cricket, Astrology, News, health care and Stock indexes. Madurai being the base centre for south India,the service would be available to all the customers in the four states.The service would be available for mobile users for Rs.30 and 25 respectively, depending on the subject chosen by the subscribers,in SMS forms. It is being introduced on revenue sharing basis. Paresh Shah, Director,Contakt Technical Solutions,said they were operating in 13 countries,and would be introducing hundreds of services to various types of customers. They were in the process of entering into agreement with banks to guide the mobile users to know about their bank balance or where the ATM or Bank is situated in a new city where they were visiting for the first time.Besides they were also planning to enter into agreement with gas companies to enable the customers know when they would get the refill and other details. The Contakt solutions were already sending 1.5crore messages a day.The time bound location board would automatically refresh the items.The facility would benefit cell one subscribers in Andhra Pradesh, Karnatka, Kerala and Tamil Nadu,officials said. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
