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Call at 20p - Vodafone Friends Circle.. Make Own Plan by Vodafone AP.. 199 Jodi Plan by BPL.. GSM to be launched by Tata Teleservices..
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Call at 20p - Vodafone Friends Circle
Available to both prepaid and postpaid users, Vodafone has launched its new plan known as Vodafone Friends Circle. The much hyped plan allows users to add other local Vodafone numbers to their friends list and make calls to them at only 20paise/min.
However, the ad says that you can add as many friends as you like to list, which does not hold true in reality. The maximum number of friends you can add has a limitation of 10 for prepaid users. You can change these at your own convenience, but this will cost you Rs.5 for each change. The plan is charged at 50paise per day.
For the postpaid users, this could turn out to be pretty expensive as the number of Vodafone users that you can add to your list is 5, and each comes at the price of Rs.15/month.
The plan might provide good value of money for a prepaid user, but will also benefit a postpaid user who has majority calling to particular a Vodafone number. Also the fact that the plan provides the flexibility to add one or more friends (postpaid) gives it that extra benefit.
Make Own Plan by Vodafone AP
Surprizingly Amazing; Vodafone Essar has now launched `Mee Kosam’ in Andhra Pradesh, an offer that lets postpaid customers in the State to make their own tariff plans. With this strategy, Vodafone becomes the first operator ever in India to facilitate freedom to allow users to design their own monthly package.
Vodafone postpaid customers can select from 27 tariff options offering various combinations between call and SMS rates and free minutes. User would be lieved a monthly rental of Rs 100 irrespective of the tariff schemes they go for.
199 Jodi Plan by BPL
BPL mobiles have come up with a new kind of plan launched by them recently. It's called the 199 Jodi(pair) Plan. High time they launched a new plan.
Here're the details :
Monthly Rent: Rs. 199
Inter-calling between Jodi: free
Local Calling: 50 paise/minute
Local SMS: Re. 1
National Calling: Re. 1/minute
National SMS: Rs. 1.5
CLIP: Free
Looks like a good plan for the BPL mobile users. You can get the plan by contacting the nearest outlet. All the best!
GSM to be launched by Tata Teleservices
Tata Teleservices, the CDMA telecommunication service provider will extend out GSM services by the end of this year by investing $2 billion, the
company said on Monday.
"We have already got spectrum (2G) for most of the circles and will roll out the services by the end of this year hopefully," the company's managing director, Anil Sardana said.
Tata Teleservices is also plotting a pan-India launch of its services.
The Tata Group company outscores Reliance Communications (RCom) in CDMA subscribers, attaining a 31 million wireless user-base at November-end, making it India's sixth largest service provider, where the chunk of users are on GSM networks.
MTNL to launch 3G this month
At last, here it comes. MTNL seems unaffected with all the ongoing controversies engulfed the 3G auction. A source close to MTNL Mumbai says that they will be launching the 3G services from January 26th. The service will be a meagre launch, just like Delhi, and will be limited to selected customers.
The area to be covered during the first part of the launch will be from the Airport to Prabhadevi and will be extended to most parts of the city by the end of February. Do keep your eyes and ears open for the pricing and other details.
Tata Indicom now in J&K
Tata Indicom is approaching their goal of attaining a pan-India presence. After launching their services in Assam a couple of months before, Tata Teleservices have announced their services for the people of Jammu & Kashmir. TTSL will introduce a variety of services like prepaid/postpaid mobile phone services, fixed wireless telephony (Walky Talky) and a lot more.
The initial first pack to be offered will be the Go Active pack priced at Rs. 199 that will allow subscribers to call local Tata to Tata at 50 paise and STD calls at Re. 1. Tata Indicom has already incorporated 100 cell sites and put forth over 100 crores worth of investment for seamless data and voice quality in the circle.
Mobile Tarrifs might Fall in 2009
Mobile tariffs might fall in the coming year, since on Wednesday, the telecommunication regulator TRAI started reviewing various intra-operator
charges including those for calls landing in each other's network.
Issuing a consultation paper on "Review of Interconnection Usage Charge", TRAI has taken information from all stakeholders on various charges payable by operators to one another for carriage and termination of domestic and international calls.
The new telecommunication operators, who are awaiting to start offering mobile services, had argued the high rate of termination charge of 30 paise a minute and had demanded that it should be lowered to a maximum ceiling of 10 paise.
Termination charge is money paid by an operator to another operator on whose network the call ends.
TRAI has however maintained that termination charge cannot be reviewed in isolation. The whole of IUC, which comprises origination, termination, carriage and transit charges, needs to be reviewed.
The new telecommunication providers have said that since most of the calls originate from their networks would be terminated on the network of existing providers, payment of 30 paise a minute would leave very little scope for them to introduce innovative tariff schemes to their subscribers and would also put pressure on their margins.
Even Department of Telecommunication had intimated that termination charges need to be lowered, as the cost of building up networks has come down considerably over the last 4-5 years.
For mobile users, it is certainly a good news at the end of the year.
Wishing you a happy and prosperous 2009!
Mega value 499 Plan by Idea
Looks like Idea Cellular has some competitive plans under its belt. We saw one of its Idea free 275 Plan last week, and here is another equivalent plan carrying a higher monthly value. This plan is called ‘Mega Value 499".
The details of this plan are :
- Monthly Rent: Rs.499
- Free: Rs. 500 worth of local calls free and 200 local SMS
- Local calls to Idea numbers: 30paise
- Local calls to other mobile: 50paise
- National and Local SMS: 50paise
- All STD calls: Re.1
This plan by Idea has a considerable amount of free package although it provides half of what Airtel and Vodafone provides in their 399+ plans. The local calling and messaging rates are also pretty cheap. Might turn out to be a lucrative plan. Try it out.
Spice mobile launches touch screen S 930
Recently, Spice Mobile has launched a finger touch phone called S 930 at a cost of Rs. 7,999. S 930 is allegedly one of the cheapest phone to provide a multi-touch swipe experience now. The phone is integrated with a virtual keypad, 1 GB memory stick, a 2 mega pixel camera, a TV out cable, a USB card reader, and an additional battery. 
Spice Mobile’s newly launched S 930 also has an MP3 player, stereo Bluetooth, FM Record & Playback, and comes preloaded with applications in tie-up along with Thomson Reuters for news alerts. It's a very attractive phone leaded with features and provided in a pretty cheap price which ought not be missed. Hoping for more offers from Spice Mobiles in the future.
Aircel Lifetime 97 pack
Lifetime recharges are becoming more and more famous among the operators as it gives them platform to gain a minimum amount from them and also retain them to some extent. Aircel is giving the lifetime options to its existing customers at Rs.97.
The ERC97 pack is going to provide them with lifetime validity. For those who are new to Aircel can pay Rs.199 and opt for the lifetime validity plan thereby getting the same benefits. Sadly anyway, the cheap price does not get you a lot as calls and SMS’s (Local) are quite bad at Re.1 and STD calls at Rs. 1.50.
This could be avoided by getting one of the many packs being offered by Aircel to reduce the calling and SMS rates. Basically, the plan is there to attract users with a cheap price offer and then make them spend more by helping them cut costs. The plan can by uers availed in Tamil Nadu.
Platinum 2500 Plan by Tata Indicom
As corporate business phones are becoming more popular among the Corporate executives of companies, Tata Indicom decided to give them absolute freedom for the same. BlackBerry users or potential BlackBerry buyers would definitely vie for this one, provided that they really use the phone to its limit.
This specific plan by Tata Indicom gives users the facility to make as many calls, SMS’s and data usage as one can possibly think of, since everything is free. What you are going to pay for would be outgoing calls while you're roaming (incoming is free).
On one hand, the rental for this plan (Rs. 2500) seems to be enormous, we also need to take into account that this plan has been devised for the classes and not the masses. This wouldn’t be much of a concern for the busy Indian businessman or top executives, also for the potential user of this plan, which is why we see this plan working well for Tata Indicom. 
Platnum 2500 is a very good plan by Tata Indicom for working people who want quality service and a business supporting
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