MTS Mblaze and Reliance Netsetter have reduced Dongle prises

MTS netsetter brand Mblaze and Reliance Netsetter have slashed their device prices almost 33% to attract more customers in to their network.

This move is under the view that among the top 3 operators, Airtel Voda and Idea - one or two operators had to stop their customer acquistion in many circles because of the latest Supreme Court verdict on 3G spectrum sharing of these operators. So Reliance and MTS believes that lowest entry cost will attract more customers to their network. TATA docomo also in a move to reduce their device price and enhance customer offers in many of their circles they are operational in 3G & photon plus.

 

 

Idea cellular increased Onnet and Local call rates

      By the end of last week Idea cellular, the emerging operator in GSM segment has increased its onnet (idea to idea) and all other local call rates in various STVs (special tariff vouchers)

Henceforth all Idea to Idea call rates in their STVs will be charged at 20paise per minute instead of 10 paise. It will be applicable to their Onnet STVs - 38, 69 which is giving a validity of 14 and 30 days respectively. But in order to satisfy the need of customers, idea has introduced a new pack which is giving idea to idea calls at 10 paise per minute priced at Rs.165, all other local calls will be charged at 30 paise per minute with a validity of 30 days.

BSNL is getting major share on MNP

  
     As per the MNP broadcast report for the month of April for Kerala, BSNL is the highest gainer in MNP, as they dominate 25% of Portin happed from other operators and their portout percentage is as low as 7% resulting the highest net customer gain of 18%. BSNL is getting portins from all major operators but the majority contributed by Idea cellular (40%) though idea is known as the most customer preferred brand in Kerala.

COAI wants Tata tele's 19 liceses cancelled

      Ever since supreme court had cancelled licenses awarded to operators since 10th Jan 2008, the COAI (the association driven by major operators Airtel, Vodafone and Idea) is trying to include 19 licenses of TATA Tele also along with the 122 licenses got cancelled. On this matter, there is a cold war between COAI and Tata Tele.

Idea introduces one coupon : 5 offers

  
      Idea cellular introduced a paper coupon prices at Rs.29 which is bundled with 5 differ offers, and customer can select his choice of offer based on the dialing code he is using.

The offer details are as follows:

MTS has come up with GSM + CDMA dual phone to attract GSM customers

    MTS India ltd, the one and only operator who is providing purely CDMA voice and data operations has come up with a new idea to impress the major chunk of GSM customers in India. The phone priced at Rs.1699 has got all major benefits including FM radio, MP4 support, 1.3 MP camera and 600 rupees voice and SMS benefits from MTS.

Airtel 60 and 110 Full Talk Time offer

     Bharti Airtel has come up with couple of area segmented full talktime offer to impress its customers. One side operators are increasing tariffs and other side they are giving full talk time offers to curb own customers porting out to other operators.

In Kerala circle wide, Airtel is operating 110 full talk time offer open to all customers is part of this initiative. In rural areas they are even operating 60 full talk time offer, as of now it is open in both Palakkad and Alappuzha districts and it may be extended to couple of other districts also.