TATA Docomo introduced 2 new packs

    TATA Docomo on this Monday launched 2 new packs for all new and existing customers of Tata Docomo GSM. One is for reduced onnet and local call rates and the second one is for reduced STD call rates.

I.   FRC 24 offers local docomo to docom calls at 10 paise per minute and all other local calls at 30 paise per minute (billing is per second, so the billing pattern will be 1p/6sec for local on net and 1p/2sec for other local calls) valid for 30 days.

Telecom Updates Exclusive : No more VAS related compalints from TATA Docomo

     TATA Docomo who had come up with many of the new initiatives in the past, has come up with yet another initiative to reduce VAS related complaints very effectively. The new initiative is called TPCG - Third Party Consent Gateway, which will take a second consent from the customers who have selected any VAS service so that the unauthorized activation of this services can be completely avoided.

    This new development has come up post TRAIs intervention on the same, as the VAS related complaints from the customers of all operators have gone up in the past one year and operators are considering it as an easy revenue building platform. The charges collected from various VAS services are upfront revenue addition and the cost to provide the services are much lesser comapred to other services.

Steep decrease in Roaming Tariffs - Good news for roamers

      The latest news in telecom industry is Operators reducing roaming tariffs post TRAI's intervention on the same. All operators including the incumbent operators have reduced roaming tariffs during the last one week.

One side they have reduced base tariff to 0.75paise per incoming calls while in roaming and the other side they have introduced special tariff vouchers which will allow customers to receive calls completely free.

STV's for one day will cost only Rs.5 and for 30 days it varies from Rs.70 to Rs.80 depending on the operator and circle.

Anyway it is considered to be the first leap and the aspired complete free incoming calls can be expected in the nearest future and the word "ROAMING" will be in history. Let us wait for "one nation one tariff".

Airtel Jodi Pack : Talk to your Jodi for the lowest tariff

     With Bharti Airtel today announced the launch of Jodi pack, it has again kick started the era of Jodi pack which allows customers to talk to their jodi for the lowest tariff available. It is available in two different dominations as mentioned in the table, that is FRC 53 with inbuilt 46 TT and 205 with 200 TT with all additional benefits as mentioned in the table.

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.

SC asks Voda and Idea to stop acquiring fresh customers in 3G circles where they don't have 3G license

Followed by Airtel, SC asked Vodafone and Idea also to stop activating fresh 3G connection where they do not have 3G license.

These 3 operators (Airtel, Idea and Voda) were mutually sharing the spectrum in many of the circles. So that they all can acquire 3G customers in all circles evenif they donot own spectrum in all circles. DOT suddenly realised that this is against the breach and asked 3 of them to stop 3G services wherever they do not hold license.

But 3 of them approached HC and obtained a stay order for this order from DOT. But now with the order from SC, operators doesn't have any options left other than to stop operations in the circles where they do not own licenses.

Airtel 3G cannot activate new customers in 7 circles till further Notice

As per the supreme court order Airtel 3G cannot acquire fresh customers till the final order from the court.

As per the latest order from DOT, Airtel, Idea and Vodafone have been asked to stop 3G services from circles wherever they donot have 3G licences and have been giving services through ICR (Intra circle roaming - Sharing the service from other operator who got license in one particular circle)

As per this verdict Airtel has to stop acquiring customers from Haryana, Kolkata, Uttar Pradesh East, Maharashtra and Goa, Gujarat, Kerala and Madhya Pradesh & Chattigarh with immediate effect.

Airtel, Idea and Voda increase STD Tariffs

30 paise per minute STD calling is history!!! as the so called Tridents (Airtel, Idea and Voda) have decided to increse it to 35 paisa per minute from the existing 30 paisa.

This applicable with effect from 10th April 2013.

Exclusive: MTS unlimited Local and STD Calling with 249 & 449 FRC

      India's only pure CDMA operator MTS has announced an amazing offer for all customers fall under their low utilization sites. Its a never before offer and none of the other operators have ever tried this daring scheme for their customers.

Here are the offer details

BSNL Existing postpay plans and benefits

BSNL Existing postpay plans and benefits.

POSTPAID PLANS
Sl No.	Particulars / services	Details			Plan-99	Plan-175	Plan-225	Plan325	Plan525	Plan725	Plan1500
1	Registration/Activation Fees, if any				100	100	100	100	100	100	100
2	One Time charge, if any	Plan enrolment			Nil	Nil	Nil	Nil	Nil	Nil	Nil
		Advance rental/other charges			Nil	Nil	Nil	Nil	Nil	Nil	Nil
3	Security Deposit( Refundable), if any	Local			500	500	500	500	500	500	500
		STD			500	500	500	500	500	500	500
		ISD			2000	2000	2000	2000	2000	2000	2000
		International roaming			5000	5000	5000	5000	5000	5000	5000
		Others			Nil	Nil	Nil	Nil	Nil	Nil	Nil
4	Monthly Rental/Minimum billing amount				99	175	225	325	525	725	1500
5	Free/discounted calls/SMS/data transfer if allowed	Local			75min	100Rs	9000sec	250Rs	425Rs.	Unlimited	Unlimited
		STD			75min		3000sec			1500min	Unlimited
		ISD			Nil	Nil	Nil	Nil	Nil	Nil	Nil
		SMS			100Nos	125Nos	150Nos	40Rs	40Rs	500 Nos	2000 Nos
		Data			Nil	100MB	200MB	250MB	500MB	6GB	6GB
6	Monthly usage discount /discounts				Nil	Nil	Nil	Nil	Nil	Nil	Nil
7	Pulse Rate				60sec	60sec	1sec	15sec	15sec	60sec	60sec
8	Billing Period/Cycle				Monthly	Monthly	Monthly	Monthly	Monthly	Monthly	Monthly
9	Call charges
a	Local	Voice
		on net			0.49	0.30	0.01	0.30	0.30	0.00	0.00
		off net			0.59	0.50	0.012	0.50	0.40	0.40	0.20
b	STD	Voice
		on net			0.59	0.50	0.012	0.50	0.50	0.40	0.00
		off net			0.59	0.50	0.012	0.50	0.50	0.50	0.30
c	ISD	For Country wise ISD tariff rates, visit www.bsnl.co.in
10	SMS	Local Onnet/Offnet			0.49	0.50	0.40	0.50	0.30	0/.3	0/.3
		National			0.49	0.50	0.60	0.50	0.50	0.40	0.40
		International			5.00	5.00	5.00	5.00	5.00	5.00	5.00
11	Data	Home			1ps/10KB	1ps/10KB	1ps/10KB	1ps/10KB	1ps/10KB	1ps/10KB	1ps/10KB
		Roaming			1ps/10KB	1ps/10KB	1ps/10KB	1ps/10KB	1ps/10KB	1ps/10KB	1ps/10KB
12	Charges while Roaming-National(in Rs./min)
		Local outgoing			1.00	1.00	0.012	0.50	0.50	0.50	0.30
		STD outgoing			1.00	1.00	0.012	0.50	0.50	0.50	0.30
		Incoming			1.00	1.00	0.010	0.50	0.50	0.50	0.00
		SMS(Local/STD/ISD)			1/1/5	1/1/5	.80/.80/5	.80/.80/5	.80/.80/5	.80/.80/5	.80/.80/5