BPL Mobile users can activate 10 ka Gang service to enjoy cheap calling rates within their set of 10 BPL numbers. Users can use this scheme right away by recharging their prepaid account with a e-topup of Rs. 249. A successful recharge will then allow the user to send 300 free SMSes every month to his gang members as well as calling them will cost 10 paise a minute. Rates outside the gang will be charged at:
With IPL fever gripping the nation, Mumbai operator BPL tried and seized the opportunity. With BPL supporting the Mumbai Indians, it is trying to sway all users to support the team too. This is done by providing users with free SMS and talktime minutes each time Mumbai Indians hit a six, four or take a wicket. Here is how it works out:
Subscribe by: SMS ‘mum’ to 50505
Each six hit = 6 free local SMS
Each four hit = 4 minutes of local BPL2BPL
Mumbai team wins = the above offer gets doubled
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With competition pressures rising due to new entrants and already existing competition, operators are likely to reduce prices even further. The trend setter here is BPL Mobile with its Jaadu32 recharge. Great plan, which allows you to stay connected @ 50paise. Yes that’s true, all calls and SMS at just 50 paise. Here is some information and the activation details of the same:
Reading between the lines: The conditions are that if one is already in a discounted plan and happens to recharge this one, he/she would be deactivated from the old plan and activated with Jaadu32. Lifetime subscriber at the end of tariff validity would move to his original plan and Non-lifetime subscriber at the end of tariff validity would move to base tariff plan.
Better known as a partially automated device that can play stored music at the insertion of a coin, the Jukebox has now gone mobile. BPL Mobile, launched Jukebox allowing its users to listen to approximately 10,000 songs 24×7. The service has been tagged at Rs.25 per month as subscription charge and the browsing would cost you 50 Paise during the day (9 to9) and 20 Paise in the remaining hours.
Users can also download the monotones of the songs they like @ Rs.10 per download. The service is also equipped with an automatic system, which would exclude the music you do not like, thus making browsing easy. This means the genres you like will be given top priority during listing. The system also allows you to continue sessions where you ended last time.
Overall the service is something refreshing but it is commendable on the part of service providers who have sneaked in another way to make money.
BPL’s service basket already provides Voice SMS to its customers. The company has taken a step ahead by launching the same service on an international scale. This service includes Voice Messages being sent by BPL users all across the world, whatever the time zone may be. The company will be partnering with Kirusa, which has its headquarters in New Jersey and is the leading Voice Service provider in the world.
Just to give you’ll a description of the service, the Indian customer would dial *00, followed by the international number and then record the message. To send the message, all that the user has to do is hang up and the receiver will receive the message as audio. As for the charges, they will be out soon. But BPL has, with this launch, announced that current BPL users can avail of unlimited Voice Messaging service nationally for a charge of Rs.50 per month.