telecom

Free calls to US and Canada: Google launching calling facility through gtalk

By Natraj Muthukrishnan at 26 August, 2010, 8:35 am

making a call through its service works like a normal phone in that a user could click on the “call phone” option in their chat buddy list in Gmail and type in the number or enter a contact’s name. Calls that cost money will be charged from an online account that users can top up with a credit card.

BlackBerry MAY be banned in India!!

By Poonam Singhal at 12 August, 2010, 3:07 pm

The Indian government may decide to ban BlackBerry services in India. The security agencies in India have been demanding access to data sent over BlackBerry phones. From quite some time now, there is a tussle going on between the two parties over security concerns. Research In Motion, (RIM) has a high level of encryption and [...]

Tata Indicom slashes STD calls to 30 paisa/min – Who dares to take on this pricing war ?

By Manoj Govindassamy at 12 August, 2010, 1:13 pm

CDMA arm of Tata Teleservices, Tata Indicom has unveiled an aggressive pricing scheme for its prepaid customers, by which STD calls are billed at 30 paisa per minute across all network for 600 minutes in a month. With an aim to popularize STD calling among its subscribers, Tata Indicom has priced the STD calls at way lesser compared to the market price from other telecom operators and even lesser than local call tariffs of some operators…

Reliance Industries to pick up stake in Notion Ink Adam Tablet : RIL + Adam Tablet == ATT + Apple iPad ??

By Manoj Govindassamy at 23 July, 2010, 2:03 pm

Hyderabad based Notion Ink which is developing a tablet computer (read it as India’s iPad) has already gathered enough media attention, for being one of the foremost tablet computer manufacturers in the country. … DATA plans can be either from EDGE networks (which are way slower and are outdated) or from a 3G network (Airtel, Vodafone, RComm have 3G licenses ) or from a WIFI (limited area scope) or from Wireless Broadband…RIL + Adam Tablet == ATT + Apple iPad ?? Can Reliance Industries repeat Apple iPad magic in the India region with its Adam Tablet and the newly acquired pan India Wireless Broadband license ?..

Nokia ties up with Tata DocoMo to provide Nokia Ovi Life

By Poonam Singhal at 22 July, 2010, 4:03 pm

Nokia have tied up with GSM service provider Tata Docomo to provide Ovi Life tools, mainly targeting customers in rural areas and small towns. Nokia Ovi Life tools are a set of software application that comes in select Nokia handsets. It provides information on education, entertainment and agriculture. These tools were created to fill the [...]

Welcome Vodafone Parrots, bye bye ‘ZooZoos’ – Vodafone’s new mascot

By Manoj Govindassamy at 21 July, 2010, 2:18 pm

But, Vodafone is now bidding adieu to the much admired ZooZoo mascot and introducing a new mascot for its new bonus cards features. Vodafone feels Zoozoos – the simple, innocent, funny acts of the alien-like white, egg-headed creatures with balloon bodies are quite familiar to consumers now, kind of overdone and wants a new avatar for advertising their forthcoming offers… Animated Parrot ..

MTS on Wheels – mobile customer service drive from MTS – follows suit with Tata DoCoMo

By Manoj Govindassamy at 15 July, 2010, 1:26 pm

MTS customer service is taking a new shape …. this bus caters all facilities that are available to customers at MTS branded retail outlets – like Instant activation zone, Instant recharge zone, Display zone, VAS zone, Data product zone, Customer Service zone and Play & Win zone. The facilities provided by the instant activation zone will range from instant activation of SIMs, instant clicking of passport size photographs, etc., Its good to see new entrants like MTS concentrating on customer service (of course, inspired by Tata DoCoMo) rather than spending the money for growth.

Ban on non-branded mobile handsets??

By Poonam Singhal at 14 July, 2010, 12:57 pm

Owing to the expanding influence of the communication technology, our country is adding the maximum number of mobile users to the subscriber base in the world. To tape on this, we know that there are a number of low-end low-price mobile handsets available in the market. Where on one end it is good that we [...]

Rent a PC – Rs 4,999 initial charges and Rs 249 monthly charges

By Poonam Singhal at 8 July, 2010, 12:04 pm

Mahanagar Telephone Nigam Ltd ( MTNL) & Chennai- based IT firm Novatium Solutions have launched a special service for MTNL’s fixedline customers in Delhi and Mumbai. Under this service, Novatium will provide computing service at Rs 4,999 that comprises of Nova Navigator console, USB keyboard and USB mouse with Nova computing charges starting from Rs [...]

Tata DoCoMo slashing overseas calls charges – Redifining the customer service with “Live Chat”

By Manoj Govindassamy at 4 July, 2010, 10:51 am

The GSM unit of Tata Teleservices has come up with an aggressive prepaid vouchers for Gulf countries like United Arab Emirates (UAE), Bahrain, Yemen, Kuwait, Saudi by which each calls are charged on highly acclaimed pay per second basis at 12 paisa per second. … Its worth to mention, the company is taking up the customer service to the next level in the country by introducing “Live chat” features whereby customers can directly chat with the service folks and get queries resolved in no time..