India adds 10.81 million mobile subscribers last month
Indian telecom industry continues to shine as the country saw an addition of 10.81 million mobile subscribers in December 2008.
This was higher than 10.35 mobile subscribers which were added in November last year.
These figures were revealed by TRAI.
With this, the country now has around [...]
9010100100: Number to SMS to call police in Hyderabad
Hyderabad police has launched a new service which would enable the city residents to call them by sending a SMS message.
This SMS message has to be delivered to this number: 9010100100.
The service unlike calling 100 is not free as the user would have to pay for the [...]
7.7 million new mobile customers in India last month
Indian mobile market continues to see the boom it has been seeing since the last couple of years.
India saw addition of 7.7 million new mobile subscribers in the month of October.
This is a record of its kind.
With this the country now has 241.4 million GSM mobile [...]
National Do Not Call violators getting disconnected
Indian telecom regulatory body TRAI has announced that more than 10,000 telephone connections of telemarketers have been disconnected for violating the National Do Not Call registry.
These call centers made calls to mobile numbers which were listed on the DNC registry.
Most of the connections disconnected in this drive belonged to [...]
Onmobile Global and Airtel collaborates to provide data retrieval service
India mobile service provider Airtel has announced that they are now collaborating with Onmobile Global.
The two companies would now provide a data retrieval service to the Airtel customers allowing them to get their data from stolen or lost mobile phones.
However, the service would only support [...]
Bharti Airtel outsourcing voice and back office operations to Firstsource Solutions
India’s leading private telecom operator Bharti Airtel has announced that they have signed on an outsourcing deal with Firstsource Solutions.
Firstsource Solutions would now be offering voice and back office operations to its 66 million mobile customers.
The two companies did not [...]
Airtel launches Dial a Postpaid offer
Indian mobile service provider Airtel has announced the launch of their Dial a Postpaid service for customers.
The company said that the users can now get a plan for Rs. 400 a month. The plan would enable the user to make local calls at 50 paisa, all STD calls at Rs [...]
MTNL providing lost mobile tracking facility
State owned mobile service provider MTNL has announced their latest service which would help their customers track their lost or stolen mobile phones.
The service requires software named which is required to be downloaded and installed on the mobile phone.
Micro Technologies is the company behind this mobile application. A company representative [...]
Vodafone launches Filmi Connection and Filmi Recharge schemes
Indian telecom operator Vodafone has announced the launch of two new schemes for movie fans.
These two new packages are named Filmi Connection and Filmi Recharge.
These packages are available to new postpaid and prepaid customers. Existing prepaid customers can also pick one of them.
The company said that they would [...]
LG India offers mobile phone theft insurance
LG Electronics is one of the several mobile phone makers who are aiming to become a major player in the Indian market.
The company has now said that they are now providing mobile theft insurance for its customers.
To provide this new service they are collaborating with United India Insurance Company.
LG [...]
