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A tribute to the Father of Indian Telecom

Rohan Kamath — Mon, 07 Jul 2008 10:35:09 +0000

Six Years ago, on 6th July itself India lost one of the Pioneers of Indian Business. We are talking about Mr. Dhirubhai Ambani. A dream that converted into the mission of his company, and thanks to this dream we now see international players now wanting to enter the Indian market. The Rs. 500 phone, which was a revolution in India’s Telecom History, was this man’s step to getting a phone in every Indian’s hands.

The exploitative raj of players then was broken by Reliance by launching varied plans, which set up new benchmarks in India. Today, we see Reliance reaching out to every nook and corner of India and the dream being realised as we read this post. We Salute this man and his contibution to the market through his dream.

Thanking Him…

TeleGyaan Team.

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The cheaper version of Blackberry services

Rohan Kamath — Sun, 29 Jun 2008 12:58:03 +0000

The Blackberry allows you to access your email when on the move. This would need an expensive phone and the connection which might dig a hole in your pocket. How about doing the same thing without GPRS or any other mode of connectivity. This has been made possible by India based software solutions company named NetCore Solutions. This company has announced the launch of its email services on mobile phones without activating GPRS service.

This service would be available to users at an annual subscription amount of Rs.250- Rs.1000 depending on the usage. The service can support GMail for the time being and the rest would be available soon. In simple words the user would recieve the email in the form of an SMS, i.e. the email would get converted to an SMS and the same would reach the user. How’s that for innovation??

What’s your take on this topic?? Share your Gyaan on TeleGyaan Forums.

Presenting Tele Gyaan Forums

Kunal Gangar — Sun, 03 Feb 2008 14:19:34 +0000

We at Tele Gyaan are proud to announce an extension to our blog. The place is Tele Gyaan Forums and there you can post your suggestions, queries, complaints about your operators or anything that comes under this sun.

Give yourself a heads up and register yourself pronto! We are waiting for you.

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We just upgraded ourselves!!!!!!

Rohan Kamath — Sun, 20 Jan 2008 15:20:58 +0000

With the number of readers adding up each week and the content increasing, we @ TeleGyaan thought that you needed a change. And here we are with a new look and some cool new stuff. We will have polls running through and also some cool new plans shaping up in the coming month.

So watch out for this space and keep visiting. As a first initiative, we at our end would want to know your needs. Share your thoughts with us. But for the moment, enjoy the browsing experience and do not forget to participate in the poll “Rate Our Makeover”.

- TeleGyaan Team

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Exclusive: GPRS Faceoff

Rohan Kamath — Thu, 17 Jan 2008 15:43:51 +0000

Being connected to the Internet through your mobile phone is a great idea, especially when you are on the move or away from home. Operators have tried to pull in many users based on this proposition and have managed o succeed. What we did was a comparative study of the operators providing such service to users.

Note: This study is done as per the rates applicable in Mumbai circle.

Airtel Mobile Office:

This service comes for a flat fee of Rs.399 and provides 100 MB of free surfing.

Trump GPRS:

The operator offers a choice when it comes to choosing a service. Here are the choices.

Vodafone Mobile Connect:

Here Vodafone offers two options for its users. The first one offers 500MB usage for Rs.499 and 5paise/10kb i.e. Rs.5 per MB after that. The second option comes at a price of Rs.199 with charges being Rs.5 per MB.

Tata Indicom Internet through Mobile:

Tata Indicom too provides multiple options ranging from monthly to yearly plans. Here they are:

BPL Mobile:

This operator seems to be offering rent-free GPRS. We really can’t comment if it is applicable for PC connection or not. But the charges provided are @ Rs.5/MB. On the same page the charges for the service are given as Rs.499. No other information provided.

Our Verdict:

The Trump plan clearly emerges as a winner among its competition. Even in the unlimited plan the operator has a clear advantage over the others.

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Cool numbers up for sale on Orkut

Rohan Kamath — Mon, 07 Jan 2008 13:30:39 +0000

Orkut is a great place to find your friends and lost ones. But this Social Networking Site is becoming a hub for other things too. Take for instance a community, which sells cool numbers for amounts ranging from as low as Rs.300 to not so affordable amounts of Rs.8000. The numbers that are up for sale are quite interesting, some of which are 999 555 4433, 9895 880 880, etc.

With about 150 plus members, people with good numbers are lining up to auction them off. So if you are one of those who want to flaunt mobile numbers, this is the place to be. Go grab your number.

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Now Yahoo oneSearch on SMS

Kunal Gangar — Mon, 22 Oct 2007 10:18:03 +0000

After Google launching the SMS based search service a few days back, it is Yahoo India who follows the same suit. The search results are retrieved in the form of SMS so anyone without a GPRS connection can also use the search service.

A user has to send the query to 58242. Eg: “iPod” to 58242.

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Google Search via Google SMS

Kunal Gangar — Wed, 10 Oct 2007 07:13:36 +0000

Seeing the potential of SMS-based services, Google India has launched Google Search on SMS for mobile users who does not have an internet enabled phone. Users trying to search something must send their search queries (for instance, “weather Mumbai”) to 54664 (5GOOG). Not so good news for the users would be that searching on Google via SMS would cost you premium SMS charges.

Currently, it is being offered by select operators – Aircel, Airtel, BPL, BSNL, Reliance.

More info here.

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This “ICE” could save your life

Rohan Kamath — Fri, 21 Sep 2007 16:31:36 +0000

We have articles on plans, schemes, offers, promotions and what not. And we thought of having something new for our readers. This one is fresh and may prove to be of great help to you. It’s a concept called ICE or “In Case of Emergency”. I personally didn’t know about this concept until I received a mail from my colleague, with a subject that read “Important Information – Must forward”. And I must say it is one piece of information, which could save your life.

Imagine a situation where one of us meets with an accident. If you are admitted to a hospital, the person who helped you get to the hospital or the doctor would want to contact your family, from your cellphone as it is the only thing available to them. In such a case people would have no time to check all your contacts. Thus to have easy recognition of family numbers on your cellphones, this concept comes to the rescue. The solution is simple and effective. What you can do is store the numbers of your family members or other numbers whom you want to contact during such a crisis by the name of ICE. Multiple numbers could be stored by using numbers after them for example: ICE1, ICE2, etc.

This concept just needs to be passed on to people and thus lives could be saved by informing near and dear ones in time. So please do pass on the message, as anyone of us could happen to be in such a situation.

Matrix gives you the best deal

Rohan Kamath — Mon, 03 Sep 2007 04:31:48 +0000

You must have heard of less famous service provider known as Matrix. If yes, then here’s some more gyaan on it. There was a request made by one of our readers to review the Matrix International calling plan, and thats when I came across this scheme. The scheme is the best I came across. It would be the best for you too, if majority of your calls are to Hutch numbers.

So here it goes. This plan named the 299M plan charges a rent of Rs. 299 and has a standard call rate to all other networks and Fixed lines @ Re.1. The great deal out here is that there is 1,000 minutes free to Hutch numbers and also send a whopping 1,000 SMSes to the same network. As for the SMS charges on other networks, they are charged Re.1

For more details, click here.

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A tribute to the Father of Indian Telecom

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Google Search via Google SMS

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