11- Digit mobile numbers in India

Mobile subscribers in India will soon have 11-
Digit mobile numbers as India is bound to
experience number crisis by next year
2013.According to The Times of India report
“All the phone number series which are
currently in use is nearing an end”

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SMS Local/National#	600	3000	6000	6000
Validity (Days)	3	15	30	30

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Airtel Gifting Services Now Share Talktime or Gift Packs

Airtel
today
announced
the
availability
of Airtel
Gifting
services
for its prepaid mobile customers in India. Airtel subscribers can now dial
*141# to send and receive talk time to each other and even give away mobile services’ gift packs. Even when a subscriber is on zero balance Airtel prepaid customers can now also send an emergency ‘call me back’ SMS alert to a friend. This is possible even when the customer has no balance, and is unable to even make a missed call. To avail this, Customers simply need to dial *141#. This service allows an Airtel prepaid mobile customer to send upto 5 call me back SMS alerts per month to other Airtel customers absolutely free of cost.

Tata Communications is also looking to enter 4G space

India’s
leading
telecommunication
company
Tata
Communications is
also
looking
to enter 4G space in coming days. Tata Communications took part in the BWA auction but left with no win. In 2G & 3G space Tata Teleservices is not even in top 3 slots, but India’s iconic business group cannot ignore the potential of 4th generation wireless broadband services in India and targets an entry into 4G segment. Now some reports indicates that Tata may enter into a tie up with Reliance Infotel, country’s only pan India 4G spectrum winner as there are some talks between them. It should be noted that Tata Communications owns prominent tower company Viom Networks (earlier known as Tata-Quippo). So Tata Communications can offer towers, optical fiber network & international gateway to Reliance Infotel. Similar prospectus also comes from Reliace Communication, owned by Anil Ambani. It also peeps the fact Reliance Industries is in talks with several passive infrastructure providers and can enter into agreements with more than one companies. Tata Communications is also looking to enter 4G space directly by buying Qualcomm’s asset of four circles’ BWA spectrum as hinted by NDTV. But as Qualcomm is messed up with the four companies for four circles and one ISP license the buy-out will be delayed for months. Qualcomm entered the BWA auction to ensure LTE roll out and also announced that eventually they will leave the Indian ISP market. Industry rumor is Airtel is keen to buy Qualcomm’s wireless broadband business as Qualcomm holds lucrative circles like Delhi & Mumbai. Mumbai and Maharastra are like den of Tata Communications, where they have great base. It is expected that Tata Comm will try their best to buy out atleast Mumbai’s 4G license from Qualcomm.

Tata
Docomo
has
launched
a
new concept “Rent-free Plan” for postpaid customers in selected Cities. Tata is the first telecom to launch the plan for customers based on the concept of “PAY AS YOU USE ”. Under the rent-free plan. A new customer will be acquired under a rental plan of Rs. 149 ,based on his outgoing usage (OG calls+SMS+VAS+Data +net of FAT) the customer will
be eligible for Zero rental as below: If customer Usage is more than>499, Rental of Rs. 149 will be discounted from his bill. If Usage is <500 rental will be charged The Unique point in the newly launched Rent-Free Plan are a. No rental (Depending on Usage ARPU > 499). b. Local calls at 1p/2sec. STD calls @ 5ps/6secs. c. 100 Local+ 100 STD mins free per month. d. SMS Charges (Local/ National/International) – 60p/120p/500p e. ISD – Standard rate apply f. Roaming – incoming-Re 1/ min, Outgoing Local-Re 1/min, Outgoing STD-Rs 1.5/min This plan is available for both new customers and existing customers and is currently available on GSM customers & will be available very shortly for CDMA customers also. If any other customer who is ported in from other operator can also choose this tariff plan. Customers can choose various add on packs as per the usage.Fore more details customers can call on 1800-266-0000 for the details on the Rent Free plans.

Airtel Raises Prepaid Mobile Tariff

India’s
largest
Mobile
Service
operator
Bharti Airtel
surprisingly
once again hikes its prepaid tariff by decreasing the validity period and offerings under certain STVs in all telecom circles across India. Airtel increased the 2G GPRS Data rates by reducing the data benefit offered under its most popular monthly GPRS Pack of Rs. 98 which is now giving only 1 GB data download instead of 2 GB offered earlier. The operator also has also reduced the tariff validity of some special tariff vouchers (STV) and Reduced Call Rate benefits by 50% like 180 days from the existing 365 days. Airtel also announced one small revision of its prepaid ISD tariff. Now ISD call rates are increased by up to 10 per cent for some destinations. In July-2011, Airtel had hike 20% in prepaid tariff as earlier we shared on TelecomTalk. Later, other leading mobile service providers live Vodafone, IDEA and BSNL also increased rates of their prepaid mobile services.

Exclusive: BSNL Launches New SMS Packs

India’s
National
Telecom
Backbone
and
Pan India
3G
Mobile
Service operator Bharat Sanchar Nigam Ltd (BSNL) today announced the new ‘attractive’ SMS Packs for its prepaid mobile subscribers (2G and 3G) across all circles. BSNL has withdrawn its existing SMS pack of Rs.53 Rs.32 and introduced NEW attractive SMS packs at Rs.36, Rs.46 and Rs.56 with more free sms and longer validity period. The New SMS STVs will be available via Ctopup and through SMS based activation from 17th November 2011. BSNL’s New SMS Pack of Rs.36 will offers 3000 Local/ National/Roaming SMS FREE valid for 30 Days. While Subscriber can send 4500 Local/National/Roaming SMS FREE (200 SMS per Day) at Rs.46 valid for 45 days. With new SMS Pack of Rs.56 subscriber will get the benefits of 6000 Local/ National/Roaming SMS valid for 60 days from the date of activation. All new SMS Pack comes with the cap of 200 SMS/day as per TRAI regulation and will be available from 17th November
2011. Please Note : Presently all new SMS pack are available for subscriber in Tamilnadu and Chennai TDM.These plan will be implemented in other circle soon. All SMS Packs are applicable while in HOME LSA as well as National Roaming across India.
The SMS STVs under 2G & 3G Prepaid mobile services will not be applicable on “Blackout days”. Normal SMS charges as per plan will be applicable on “Blackout Days.

National Telecom Policy 2011: Free Roaming, High Speed Broadband

Kapil Sibal, Minister for Telecommunications and IT today release the draft of the National Telecommunications Policy-2011 aims to have 100% tele-density by 2020 also targets affordable and reliable broadband on demand by 2015 and Free National Roaming on Mobile Services.

The New Telecom Policy recommends one Nation, one license policy across services and service areas to abolish Roaming charges. The distinction between local and STD calls would vanish, as the policy aims at a ‘one-nation-one-licence’ regime.

Under the new telecom policy, telecom ministry also provisions for inter-circle Mobile Number Portability (MNP) i.e. Full MNP, which involves changing an operator while retaining the same phone number in different telecom circles.

NTP-2011 aims to revise the existing broadband download speed of 256 Kbps to 512 Kbps by 2011 and subsequently to 2 Mbps by 2015 and try to make 500 MHZ spectrum available by 2020. It will De-link issuances of licenses and spectrum allocation. The revenue generation will be the secondary consideration in the New Telecom Policy 2011.

Mr. Kapil Sibal says “We will seek seek TRAI recommendations on license framework under the new Telecom Policy 2011. State operators BSNL and MTNL will continue to play important role in penetration. Mission is to have special coverage of remote and rural areas. The New spectrum act will look into spectrum pricing and spectrum to be made available at market valuations.”


Highlights : National Telecom Policy – 2011 :



One Nation-One License to mean removal of Roaming charges on Mobile phone service.
Full Mobile Number Portability and work towards One Nation – Free Roaming.
Efforts Towards ‘Right to Broadband’
Affordable and reliable Broadband on demand by 2015 and to achieve 175 million broadband connections by the year 2017 and 600 million by the year 2020 at minimum 2 Mbps download speed and making available higher speeds of atleast 100 Mbps on demand.
To revise the existing broadband download speed of 256 Kbps to 512 Kbps by 2011 and subsequently to 2 Mbps by 2015 and and higher speeds of atleast 100 Mbps thereafter.
300 MHz spectrum to be made available by 2017
Aim to make 500 MHz spectrum available by 2020
Mission is to have special coverage of Remote, Rural areas across India.
Protect consumer interest by promoting informed consent, transparency and accountability in quality of service, tariff, usage etc.
Optimize transmission of services to consumers irrespective of their devices or locations by Fixed-Mobile Convergence thus making available valuable spectrum for other wireless services.
Convergence of services will cover voice, data, video, Internet, VAS
The technology neutral Unified Licenses are envisaged to be in two separate categories : (a) Network Service Operator (NSO)/ Communication Network Service Operator (CNSO)
(b) Service Delivery Operator (SDO)/ Communication Service Delivery Operator (CSDO)
To permit resale at retail level like MVNO
De-link licenses issuances & spectrum allocations
Spectrum to be made available at market valuations
Seek TRAI recommendation on license framework
Will allow trading, sharing, pooling of spectrum
Will enact a separate spectrum act
Aim is to have the policy take effect by December 2011


Note : All above regulations are proposed by Telecom Ministry and would be effective if the policy comes into effect.

World’s Cheapest Android Tablet ‘Aakash’ Launched In India

The much awaited world’s cheapest $35 android Tablet is finally launched in India dubbed as Aakash developed by the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT Rajasthan).

Kapil Sibal, Union Minister for Human Resourced Development launched Aakash Tablet and it will be sold to students at the subsidized price of $35 (approx Rs. 1720) to expand digital access across India.

Speaking on the launch of Tab, Minister Kapil Sible announced that the “Aaksh Tablet” will initially be available in a pilot run of 1,00,000 units before being rolled out to millions of secondary students over the next few months. The tablets will be distributed state-wise and each state will get 3000 units in first phase. This device was also distributed among 500 children on the occasion.

Powered by Android 2.2 (Froyo) the 7-inch tablet has a resistive multi touch screen and Conexant CPU with HD Video and accelerated graphics.

Manufactured by London (UK) based DataWind, branded as UBSLATE and renamed as the Aakash tablet weighs 350 grams and has 256 MB of RAM and 32 GB expandable memory slot and two USB ports. The tablet also has support for Wi-Fi IEEE 802.11 b/g connectivity and includes a microphone and stereo earphones. It comes with one year replacement warranty.


in pic:Minister for HRD, Communications and IT, Mr. Kapil Sibal launching the "Aakash" Low Cost Android Tablet



According to DataWind, The Premium version of Aakash Tablet inbuilt cellular modem (GSM/3G) and SIM card slot to access Internet, which will be absent in the $35 (Rs.1720) device, supplied to the Government of India will be available at retail stores across India at MRP of Rs. 2999 by the end of October 2011.

A keyboard portfolio case for the Aakash Tablet will also be made available during the premium version launch at an additional cost of Rs. 300.

Vodafone’s New GPRS Packs For Kerala

In a bid to provide more affordable data offerings Vodafone, country’s 3rd largest operator revised its 2G data pack portfolio in Kerala circle. Now Vodafone is offering 2G data plans for 1 day, 3 days, 7 days and 30 days validity.

But Vodafone cut down the usage from 2GB to 1GB in 30 day validity pack.

This move follows the Airtel’s step.

Indian Smartphone Users Spend More Time on content Than on Voice & SMS

India’s growing population of Smartphone users now spends more time on entertainment and internet based content than on voice calling and text messages finds the newly formed strategic alliance between Nielsen and Informate Mobile Intelligence.

The average Smartphone user spends 2.5 hours a day using their phones with 72% of their time spent on activities such as gaming, entertainment, apps and internet related content.

Only 28% of their time is now used for voice calls and text messaging.

Key Findings by Nielsen Informate Mobile Insights


Smartphone users in India are using their phones for more than 2.5 hrs per day, of which communication (calls, SMS, emails) accounts for only 28% of usage.

Younger Smartphone users (15-25 yr olds) spend more than 3 hrs per day on their phones and spend 60% of the time on entertainment & browsing e.g., gaming, surfing the net and multimedia.
68% of 15-24 year olds used a chat app last month as compared to 42% for the 31+ year olds.

Data usage for 3G users was close to 44% more than 2G users.

An Android user installs an average of 19 apps in a month compared to 10 apps for a Symbian user.

84% of Android users played a game in the last month compared to 59% for Symbian users.

Apps and gaming behavior by Operating System.

Tata Docomo karnataka new FRC

Tata
Docomo
has
come
up
with a
long
term
first
recharge coupon (FRC) for the new activations for its Karnataka Customer especially for Bangalore & Mysore customers
on the occasion of Dasara. During this Dasara Festival Customer from Bangalore & Mysore can enjoy this special benefit of FRC 89 where he can enjoy all local tata calls at 1ps/6sec (10ps/min) , all other local calls at 1ps/2secs( 30ps/ mins) & STD calls at 1.2ps/sec (72ps/min) for the period of 90 days. Also customer can enjoy 98 free sms, after first two sms getting charged at 50ps/sec and also Customer will Get 500 MB data with 3 months validity and also customer can download exclusive premium content of Dasara which will be activated within 72hrs of activation. The new activations on this starter pack will also get 250 MB extra data free which is only to be used for Yahoo websites with 30 days validity. This FRC is applicable only on the New Dasara Special Kit. One more special benefit is that customer will get Premium numbers like, 7788, 7868, 8833, and 1111 as the last series numbers without any extra charges. There is also a lucky draw running during this new activation customer can win Gold coins upto 400 Gms . Lucky draw on 31st Oct 2011.

Tata
Docomo
has
come
up
with a
long
term
first
recharge coupon (FRC) for the new activations for its Karnataka Customer especially for Bangalore & Mysore customers
on the occasion of Dasara. During this Dasara Festival Customer from Bangalore & Mysore can enjoy this special benefit of FRC 89 where he can enjoy all local tata calls at 1ps/6sec (10ps/min) , all other local calls at 1ps/2secs( 30ps/ mins) & STD calls at 1.2ps/sec (72ps/min) for the period of 90 days. Also customer can enjoy 98 free sms, after first two sms getting charged at 50ps/sec and also Customer will Get 500 MB data with 3 months validity and also customer can download exclusive premium content of Dasara which will be activated within 72hrs of activation. The new activations on this starter pack will also get 250 MB extra data free which is only to be used for Yahoo websites with 30 days validity. This FRC is applicable only on the New Dasara Special Kit. One more special benefit is that customer will get Premium numbers like, 7788, 7868, 8833, and 1111 as the last series numbers without any extra charges. There is also a lucky draw running during this new activation customer can win Gold coins upto 400 Gms . Lucky draw on 31st Oct 2011.

Uninor Introduces Combo Pack

Uninor
today
announced
the
launch
of Combo Pack targeting Andhra Pradesh telecom circle. The Combo pack comes with a Special Tariff Voucher of Rs. 27 and offers 3000 Free SMS (100 Local / National per day) for 30 days along with 100 MB of internet browsing with a validity of 30 days. Looks like Uninor is constantly
coming up with innovate ideas to bring out simple products that benefit its customers to the maximum. Understanding that youth across the state are the biggest users of SMS and internet we hope this pack will give them the freedom to stay connected in a cost effective manner.

Eid ul-Fitr festival Topup RAMZAN- MTNL

Leading Broadband and telecom service provider Mahanagar Telephone Nigam Ltd (MTNL) today announed the launch of Ramzan and Eid ul-Fitr festival Topup Coupon 650 under its prepaid Trump mobile services (2G and 3G) in Delhi circle.

On the occasion of holy Ramzan & Eid ul-Fitr festival, as a goodwill gesture, MTNL has decided to shower blessings for its customers with hyper talk time on Special Top-Up.

MTNL’s “Eidul Fitr special Topup Coupon 650″ provides hyper talk time of Rs. 786 as a core balance. The recharge will be available at MTNL Sanchar Hat in Delhi circle from 25/08/2011 to 31/08/2011.