Honest 836 Report post Posted December 15, 2006 (edited) The state-owned Bharat Sanchar Nigam Limited (BSNL) Chennai telecom circle has become the first BSNL circle in the country to launch 'BSNL Tunes.' The company said that BSNL Tunes is an innovative, value-added 'Ring back tone' service, which will be provided to all its postpaid mobile subscribers in Chennai. BSNL also said that BSNL Tunes service offers mobile subscribers in Chennai the option to set their favorite songs as ring back tone for all callers to listen to instead of the usual ring tone. Veluswamy, Chief General Manager, Chennai telecom circle, BSNL, confirmed the launch of the services with the first commercial advertisement on the services on December 9 this year. However, the services for the prepaid subscribers will be launched very soon. According to reports, BSNL postpaid mobile subscribers have to call 567 in order to subscribe this Ring back tone service. The services are charged at Rs.20 per month for subscription and Rs.12 per song selection as a Ring back tone. Besides, the services can be subscribed via the voice channel as well as via SMS for which subscribers are charged accordingly as per the BSNL tariff plan for the services. It is learnt that for this service, BSNL has partnered with OnMobile, a company incubated by Infosys technologies, to deploy the Ring back tone services for the South zone covering the 4 circles of Tamil Nadu, Andhra Pradesh, Karnataka, and Kerala. Speaking on the occasion, Sidharth Sharma, National Sales Manager, OnMobile, said, "BSNL subscribers had been eagerly awaiting the launch of the Ring back tone services which had been launched by private operators more than one year back." According to industrial sources, considering the complexity of BSNL's multi vendor network, the launch of these services is a result of the zest and commitment of BSNL and the technical abilities of OnMobile in ensuring the successful launch of these services for the Mobile subscribers of the South zone. Cheer up all my dear Chennai BSNL customers for this newly launched service. Edited December 15, 2006 by Honest Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
