sougatadc 358 Report post Posted December 27, 2009 TataIndicom has launched CALL INDIA 149 Plan. Although, this is not available in the list of 'current plans available' in the official website. As usual the 'Value+ Packs'siteremains ill-maintained as usual. I was using the 'New Tata Platinum plan' for a few months with unlimited local Tata2Tata pack, SMS All India Pack 1000, and Most dialed STD lite pack (call & sms @ 25p/min to one Tata number nationwide). I wanted to change the plan to one of the available Indi150 plan yesterday and as usual the customer care executive didn't have the info that the Indi150 plan has been withdrawn on 25th Dec (it is still available as per the official website, go and check it). Today, one TataIndicom executive called me from Bengaluru and offered me the CAllIndia149 plan. It has local call rate of 30p/min and STD at 50p/min. It gives 149 number of free sms (local & national) but no free calls. I chose it. In my account the name of the plan is showing, but you will see that there is no such plan in the official website. Exasperating. TataIndicom is taking little care in maintaining their official website uptodate. Their cc executives are equally ill-informed. I don't understand why on earth they design plans where most of the Value+ packs are not compatible. People are ready to pay of an add-on pack, but it will not be available with his chosen plan. In the website itself, it is nowhere mentioned which pack is not compatible with which plan. In Pay Per Call plan in post paid, one has to pay Rs 149 as rent to have the facility of Re1/10min local and Rs3/10min STD. But this facility is available for a daily deduction of Re1 i.e. Rs 30/Rs31 per month. This is very much irrational for the post-paid customers to pay such a high rent for the same facility. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Himanshu Singh 19 Report post Posted December 28, 2009 Most, rather all, postpaid plans look useless to me. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
KanagaDeepan 1,084 Report post Posted December 28, 2009 Is it true that the roaming on that plan is 50p/min for In/Out/STD also??? If so, a very nice plan... Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
vvinayakpai 26 Report post Posted December 28, 2009 Good cal rate but the rental is sheer waste of money. I mean no full utilisation talktime etc which is being offered by most telecom companies in order to retain customers. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
KanagaDeepan 1,084 Report post Posted December 28, 2009 Good cal rate but the rental is sheer waste of money. I mean no full utilisation talktime etc which is being offered by most telecom companies in order to retain customers. The only known benefit of Postpaid connection is the CUG, apart from that Prepaid is best.. But nowadays CUG-like lower on-net charges are also possible with some special recharges also.. Further in prepaid, if you recharge for huge amounts when FULL or Hyper Talk-time is given, you actually save that 10.3% service Tax and that too is a HUGE saving .. In postpaid, you can NEVER avoid the service tax... Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
sougatadc 358 Report post Posted December 28, 2009 I'm using mobile phones for more than a decade now. At the beginning I was on prepaid, when only Reliance Smart GSM was launched and incoming calls were Rs.4/minute After that I switched to BSNL post-paid for its unlimited GPRS and I started using it before it was officially launched in our circle. I used to use O2 MINI-II with Windows 2003 SE OS. Post-paid was always advantageous as only in post-paid plans 'Friend&Family' pack was available which was unlimited at that time, also there was 15 sec pulse. Also roaming was available to post-paid subscribers only. We, the post-paid users used to enjoy seamless mobile use in the trains while we travelled to Kolkata (it was considered to be roaming region at that time). Our pre-paid friends used to switch-off their phones when they reached Kolkata or any other roaming region (as they do in Assam or in Kashmir now). Days have changed. Operators are considering these old customers as burden. We are no longer privileged subscribers. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
