We all know that Hutch is now Vodafone. And to extend the brand visibility and fade off the Hutch brand, Vodafone is offering a change in the operator logo to Vodafone IN to its subscribers. If you want to change the logo, SMS Vodafone to 56565 and receive the operator logo for free.
Tata Indicom in everone’s minds – Tops recall charts
Tata Teleservices claims to be the fastest growing telecom service provider in India. You would be doubtful about this statement, but it’s completely true. Tata Indicom is all set to give the biggies in the industry a run for their share of the cake. The most recent blow is the result of the market study made by market research agency Synovate. It marks Tata in numero uno position in terms of Brand Recall, Awareness and Reach.
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UPDATED: Airtel Jaya He
Airtel’s hearing us! Few weeks ago Airtel had launched Jaya He prepaid scheme. The scheme gave attractive call rates but the biggest downfall of this were that the call rates of Jaya He were only given to new subscribers and also the cost of buying a Jaya He SIM card did not include any talk time nor validity.
Realising the blunder they had made initially, Airtel is now providing the call rates of Jaya He pack to all the existing users who recharge their account with Rs. 610 denomination. The recharge carries a talk time of Rs. 350 and a validity of 30 days. For the new users who buy a new Jaya He SIM will get Rs. 400 worht of talk time which will be valid for 30 days.
Tata Indicom brings in high speed mobile internet
Tata Teleservices in association with Samsung Telecommunications India has launched a new handset called the Samsung Explore. Now you must be wondering what’s unique about this handset. This new-age phone has a mobile browser which is designed to provide mobile users a true Web experience by providing speed 3-4 times faster than GPRS, with access to all websites. Tata Teleservices promises that the quick experience this handset offers is very unique and cannot be compared to any of the existing mobile browsing services. This handset provides faster speed because it works under a CDMA network.
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Difference between a Public and Private operator
In India there’s always a fight between the Private and Public players, especially in the Telecom Sector. Here the public sectors with their low cost plans tried to rope in customers but to their disappointment could not manage to do so, at least in the urban areas. Though the public operators may be having huge number of users, they fail to keep up to the pace of the changing trends.
Just check out MTNL’s site. One would not be interested to see such a site. The interface and the look is not attractive as compared to the high end sites being made by private players such as Vodafone and Airtel. Though Public players try and pull up their socks to stay in the race, they still lag behind in providing the peripheral or supplementary services, which are demanded by users today. Let’s take a simple example of the Bill Assist, which is provided by Airtel as well as MTNL. This service assists you to chose a plan according to the number of minutes you speak every month, the end objective being to provide you a plan that could give you value for money.
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TRAI: Indian Mobile Subscribers in excess of 200 million
India is seeing a spurt in their wireless subscriber base. Last month, telecom service providers managed to add 8.31 million users taking the total figure to pass 200 million. Another good news is that teledensity (number of people owning a telephone connection out of every 100 people) is also increased to 21.20% as compared to July’s teledensity of 20.52%.
This magical figure took just a year and 3 months after it had crossed the 100 million mark in May 2006. Amongst the operators, Bharti Airtel took the major share in August to add more than 2 million subscribers.
[Via Yahoo]
This “ICE” could save your life
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.
Namaste Vodafone
The Hutch is now Vodafone campaign was successfully launched last night, with the ad being aired at the best possible time. Yes I am talking about the exciting match between India and South Africa. The company used the match to it’s advantage and the ads were rolled out. Thus we would like to welcome the Red and White Giant to India and wish it luck.
As for the ad, Vodafone has managed to have continuity in the campaign by having the Hutch dog and the animated couple in its ads. This helps customers relate to Hutch and the transition in the ad does the rest. The transition of the brand is depicted in the best manner by showing the Hutch dog, moving out of his old Pink kennel and moving to his new Red Kennel, followed by text which reads “Change is Good”.
The ad campaign has managed to capture attention and thus convey the message across to the masses. The ad is being aired extensively to bring better effectiveness and awareness. And yea, so from now on all the Hutch news will be posted in a new category known as Vodafone.
Watch one more ad after the break.
A Battery that can work as a Modem?
Ya that’s what the Tata Indicom site says. Just happened to browse through the mobile accessories being provided by Tata Indicom, and I came across this one of a kind battery, which happens to double up as a modem and can be connected to your laptop and computer and voila you’ve got internet on your desk/laptop. I know you cant believe me. But it’s true man. This is it. It’s is the thing we have been waiting for.
Isn’t that great??
It would be if it would have been true. That was just an attempt to try and remove mistakes from the websites of the operators and have some spice to the boring website of ours. So if you are a Tata Indicom customer, go ahead and ask your operator about it’s innovative and one of a kind battery!
Tata Indicom’s Cellphone Chooser
Often people prefer to stay away from CDMA connections just because of the fact that they don’t get the cellphone they want. Well it is true that one would not get the best pick, but you may get a good deal. That is what Tata Indicom is trying to do through it’s Cell Phone Selector on it’s site. This service allows you to choose the functions you want in your Cellphone and the site will do the rest for you.