TRAI Strict On Pesky Calls & SMS, 22769 Individual Customers Disconnected

Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (TRAI) today said that total 22769 subscribers have been disconnected for making pesky calls or messages through individual numbers.

TRAI is monitoring and enforcing the regulations for protection of customers from Unsolicited Commercial calls and SMSs.

According to TRAI after implementation of regulations on 27th September 2011, 36156 subscribers have been issued notices and 22769 mobile/telecom subscribers have been disconnected. In case of telemarketers, in 94 cases telemarketers have been penalized. Also, 4 telemarketers have been blacklisted.

“As per the regulations, if unsolicited commercial calls and SMSes are sent from individual numbers, notice will be served to the customer and his number will be disconnected on second violation,” TRAI said in a statement.

Registered telecom subscribers receiving marketing or unwanted commercial calls or messages may lodge their complaint by dialing or sending SMS to 1909.

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Matrix Cellular Will Now Offer Cheaper International Roaming

Matrix Cellular today slashed their International Roaming rates up to 50% .The new rates will provide customers with an opportunity to save even more while travelling abroad with a Matrix SIM card.

Matrix Cellular customers who are travelling to the UK can now call back home for as low as Rs.1/minute with free incoming calls using the new Global Blackberry SIM, customers can get unlimited access to Emails, Browsing, BBM, Facebook and Twitter in over more than 150 countries 50 pounds.

Not only this, customers who are hooked to their emails or other social media sites on their Smartphones can also activate data services on their handheld at just 1/10th the cost of International Data Roaming charges.

With the new price and rate plans, huge savings on your International Roaming expenses ensure you spare no expenses when shopping abroad.Before opting Matrix SIM we request you to check the Terms and conditions .

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Nokia Introduces ‘Live Traffic Feature’ On Maps For Delhi and Mumbai

Nokia today expanded its Location Services portfolio in India with the availability of ‘Traffic feature’, a real time traffic service on Nokia smartphones. The service, available to users inDelhi and Mumbai.

This service will be able to deliver comprehensive, real-time traffic information to more than 26 million people in two of the country’s busiest cities today onwards. The traffic update is available to users on Symbian smartphones on Nokia Drive, and on Nokia Lumia 800 and Nokia Lumia 710 on Nokia Maps. Upon download the user can study the traffic situation in real time and subsequently plan a route.

Powered by NAVTEQ Traffic Pro real-time traffic service, the traffic feature offers superior coverage with detailed information on traffic speeds on motorways, main and secondary roads to enable accurate estimated arrival times helping consumers save time, fuel and frustration.

NAVTEQ Traffic Pro is a unique offering by Nokia Location & Commerce that provides the highest quality traffic information based on the most diverse global traffic collection network. It aggregates and analyses traffic data from a vast wealth of sources, including the world’s largest compilation of both commercial and consumer probe data, the world’s largest fixed proprietary sensor network, event-based data collected from government sources, and extensive historical traffic records.

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BSNL Extends 3G Data Plans at Discounted Price Offer For 1 Month

India’s National Telecom Backbone and Pan India 3G mobile service provider Bharat Sanchar Nigam Ltd (BSNL) today announced the extension of its promotional offer of 3G Data Plans at discounted rates for 1 months.

Now BSNL 3G subscriber (Prepaid and Postpaid) using 5000 MB, 10,000 MB and 15000 MB plans can enjoy discounted price up to 40% for another period of 30 days i.e.up to 30 April 2012. Earlier the 3G Data benefit offer was valid till 31st March 2012.

on 6th September last year, BSNL has revised its 3G Data offerings and announced the new increased price of certain Prepaid STVs and Postpaid Fixed Monthly Charge (FMC).

After the launch of ’3G Duble Dhamaka’ offers by some of leading private 3G operators, BSNL also starts to offer some plans with discounted price valid up to 31st March, 2012. Now theses plans (lised below) at discounted price will be available up to 30th April,2012.

Prepaid 3G Data Plans /STVs
MRP of  3G Data STVs	Discounted Price of 3G Data STVs.(Valid till 30 April 2012	Free Data Usage(Home and Roam)	Validity
Rs. 1250	Rs. 750	5000 MB	30 Days
Rs. 1800	Rs. 1260	10000 MB	30 Days
Rs. 2250	Rs. 1575	15000 MB	30 Days
Note: Price may vary from Circle to Circle by Rs. 3 (+/-) considering local market conditions etc. Beyond Free usage data charges will be Rs.0.04 /10KB

Postpaid 3G Data Plans
FMCs 3G Data Plan	Discounted Price of 3G Data FMC (Valid till 30 April 2012	Free Data Usage(Home and Roam)	Data Charges Beyond Free Usage
Rs. 1133	Rs. 680	5000 MB	4p/10 KB
Rs. 1633	Rs. 1143	10000 MB	4p/10 KB
Rs. 2039	Rs. 1427	15000 MB	4p/10 KB

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Tata Docomo Revises its Smart Life Plans on 3G Platform

In its continuous efforts to provide affordable mobile and data services, Tata Docomo the unified telecom brand of Tata Teleservices Limited, today announced the launch of new Smart Life plans on its 3G platform.

Priced at Rs 146, 198 and 246, these new plans are available for all Tata DOCOMO new pre-paid customers across Karnataka.

Tata DOCOMO’s Smart Life Plan of Rs 146 offers free 75 Local + National minutes and 3G data usage benefit of 300 MB. Whereas, Rs 198 and 246 plan offer free Local + National minutes of Rs 170 and 250 along with the 3G data usage benefit of 400 MB and 600 MB respectively.

All these new plans are not only competitively priced but also offer other benefit of a month long validity. What’s more? To activate these plans, customer doesn’t necessarily have to opt for a separate 3G data pack.

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Hands On – Apple New iPad With Airtel Presence Team

Wait is over Apple fanboys! time to rejoice – Apple’s latest tablet iPad 3 is with us.The new iPad was unveiled by Apple CEO Tim Cook on March 7 as the successor of iPad 2. The new iPad comes with dual core A5X processor, quad core graphics and a Retina display with resolution of 2048×1536 pixels.

We tested The New iPad (iPad3) at Airtel office at Gurgaon with Airtel Presence team the device is 4G capable. Before we go to share our experiences with The New iPad (iPad 3) we must tell you it was simply awesome to use this tablet.

This will be a 2part series the first part will showcase some pics and the 2nd part we will do speed test and some benchmarking on AirTel Network many other stuffs.

We would also like to tell you that we are the first in India to test Apple New iPad (iPad3) along with Airtel .

We are also testing some exclusive services you can guess it although we cant disclose this now all we can say is we will soon update it first on TelecomTalk  .

For those who are interested in numbers and version details.

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Uninor Introduces STV 88 Offering 30 Paisa Per Minute

Uninor has introduced yet another pocket friendly special tariff voucher (STV) of Rs. 88 in West Bengal.

Customers now get a chance to enjoy and talk more with this STV which will be valid for a period of 90days.

In continuation to offer and meet the needs of its far stretched customers with cost effective and convenient options and simultaneously facilitating them (the customers) to speak for a longer duration, Uninor has time and again thought of and implemented smart and interesting STVs’ and tariff plans.

In similar lines, once the customers opt for the STV 88, their joys get doubled as they get the benefit of making local as well as STD outgoing calls across any network for just 30 paisa per minute for the next 90 days.

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Exclusive: Videocon To Shut Down Services in Most Circles

After the cancellation of 2G licenses, it is now turn for Videocon to shut down services in most of the circles where they operate as we came to know from our sources. This is the 3rd operator after STel and Cheers Mobile who went to close operations.

In 2008 Videocon got license and 2G GSM spectrum for 21 circles, and in Punjab they operate as brand sharing agreement between QTL and Videocon. Videocon is commercially available in selected circles like Tamilnadu, Mumbai & Maharastra, Gujarat, Haryana, Punjab and Kerala. While 18 circles out of 22 are listed on Videocon’s website to show their minimal presence to meet roll out oligations.

As per our sources, Videocon will shut down their services all circles except those circles having more than 5 lakh customers. The operating circles of Videocon Mobile will be Tamilnadu incl.Chennai, Punjab & Haryana and M.P & Mumbai. Currently M.P has largest Videocon customer base.

Renjith M a TelecomTalk reader and a Videocon customer from kerala cited that recharge is disabled in Kerala for 3 days and most of the FRC (First Recharge Coupon) are withdrawn.

As per our sources now few Selected FRC will be available for the customers in the above mentioned operating circles.

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Nokia Offers Free Premium Apps & Games on Selected Mobile Phones

Nokia India today announced a range of premium applications and games on select Nokia smart devices for its consumers free of cost!

Nokia Consumers who purchase Nokia C5-05, Nokia C5-03, Nokia 500, Nokia 603 andNokia 701 can download apps and games worth Rs. 3850. The offer can be availed by existing users of these devices as well as new buyers.

The free premium apps and games also include exciting labels from EA Sports for sports enthusiasts. These include FIFA ‘12, EA Cricket ’11, Tiger Woods PGA Tour ’11, Tekken, Medal of Honor and Need for Speed.

Other popular games include Monopoly, FIFA ‘11, Flight Control, Zuma’s Revenge and Hard Rock collection. Besides gaming, Nokia is offering a host of utility apps for Nokia C5-05 and Nokia C5-03 users. Thes include useful apps such as SMS scheduler, SMS spam manager, Call recorder, Contacts Hider and Message Hider.

To get Free Apps on all above these devices, SMS Nokiaapps Handset Model Number (without any space) to 55555.

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Airtel, Loop Mobile and Idea Cellular Summoned on MNP Port-Out Rejection Complaints

India’s three leading mobile service providersBharti Airtel, Idea Cellular and Loop Mobileand their top officials were summoned today by a Delhi court for allegedly violating the TRAI regulations on Mobile Number Portability (MNP).

After the lot of complaints of false practice by these leading operators regarding Mobile Number Portability (MNP), Indian telecom watchdog Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (TRAI) has approached a Delhi Court, with a complaint against mobile operators for rejecting MNP  port out requests from its subscribers and violating the MNP regulations.

The top executives from telecom sector who were issued summonses with a direction to appear before Chief Metropolitan Magistrate Vinod Yadav on May 25 are Airtel’s CEO Sanjay Kapoor, its Director (Legal and Regulatory Affairs) Jyoti Pawar and Vice-President (Head and Regulatory Affairs, Mobile Services) Ashwani Rana.

The executives summoned from the Idea Cellular  included its Managing Director Himanshu Kapania and its Chief Corporate Affairs Officers Rajat Mukarji.

While the Mumbai’s leading operator Loop Mobiles (India) Ltd officials, who have been summoned by the court are its Managing Director Sandip Basu and Chief Regulatory Officer Harish Kapoor.

Earlier the TRAI has filed separate complaints against each mobile service providers and their top officials for allegedly violating its norms by rejecting mobile number portability (MNP) requests of their subscribers in various circles like Mumbai, Maharashtra & Goa, Karnataka, Tamil Nadu, Chennai, Gujarat and some others.

TRAI also said that it has received lot of complaints whereas the majority of Mobile Number porting requests have been rejected by these mobile service providers on the ground ofcontractual obligations and outstanding payment dues (less than Rs. 10) as the reason, even though the rejection clause in the Mobile Number Portability Regulations doesn’t allow operators to reject port-out requests on these grounds.

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Tata Docomo Introduces Pure Rent Free GSM Postpay Plan Offering STD Calls at 5paise per 6 seconds

Tata Docomo, the unified telecom brand of Tata Teleservices Limited (TTL), introduced a pure Rent Free Postpaid Plans where customer can enjoy all the benefits at ZERO rental with no commitment. Earlier there was a minimum commitment and now the commitment has been removed.

Customers from Karnataka has to furnish any previous postpaid mobile bill of last 3 months with a bill value of greater than or equal to Rs. 500.

The Rent Free plans will be available for both new and existing GSM postpay customers in Karnataka. To subscribe to the plan the customer just needs to produce his last generated mobile bill with bill value greater than or equal to Rs. 500.

The Rent Free Plan offering tariff rates to the customers where the call rates will be 1 paisa for 2 second for all local calls and 5 paise/6 seconds for all STD calls.

All Local and National SMS will be charged at 50 paise per SMS and ISD SMS at Rs. 5 per SMS. Standard charges will be applicable on all ISD and Roaming Calls.

Customer can also opt for below mentioned addon pack based on the usage .

SMS Packs

1500 SMS@ Rs. 49 Pack

600 SMS @ Rs. 29 Pack

New Unlimited SMS @ Rs. 89 Pack

GSM GPRS 10GB@199 Pack

GSM GPRS 15GB@299 Pack

GSM GPRS 2GB@50 Pack

GSM GPRS 6GB@99 Pack

Zero (Pure Rent Free Plan)
Local All calls	1ps/2secs (30ps/min)
STD All calls	5ps/6secs (50ps/min)
SMS	Local & Nation 50p  per SMS, ISD Rs5

To Buy New postpaid connection Karnataka customer can call on 1800-266-00-00 (Toll-Free) or SMS “rentfree” 56161 chargeable at Rs. 3per SMS

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