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    Vodafone India sets Guinness World Record for a 25 hour uninterrupted call

    by Arun Prabhudesai

    This is something which Vodafone should be really proud about – They have set a Guinness World Record for an uninterrupted call of 25 hours 11 minutes & 40 second. That’s an entire day and some more… The uninterrupted telephone conversation which started on March 28th, 2012 at 12

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    TRAI directive to prevent Misleading Tariff Advertisements [Details]

    by Arun Prabhudesai

    TRAI has taken a serious note of Telecom Operators presenting convoluted ways of  presenting the Tariff advertisements, which essentially are not understood clearly by a average mobile user and hence gets fleeced by the mobile operator. In this view TRAI has issued guidelines for standardization of Tariff advertisements published

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    Blackberry sets up its server in Mumbai

    by Arun Prabhudesai

    After nearly 2 years, Blackberry has finally agreed to setup its server in Mumbai, India. This controversy has had quite a effect on Blackberry’s business in India. According to the latest report by convergence catalyst, Blackberry marginally lost its market share in smartphone category.   According to the news,

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    TRAI’s new guidelines to Telecom Companies – How to publish Tariff Plans!

    by Arun Prabhudesai

    From an Indian mobile consumer point of view, last few months have been great. TRAI has been coming up quite a few directives that are pro-consumers. At the same time, for telecom companies, it is a nightmarish period – these new TRAI directives are adding to their woes on

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    Vodafone decides to disconnect mobiles inactive for 60 days!

    by Arun Prabhudesai

    According to reports appearing in media, Vodafone, the 2nd largest Telecom Operator has decided to go ahead and disconnect the services of mobile users who have not used their cellphones to make or receive calls for over 60 days. This is probably due to the fact that Department of

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    Airtel’s new innovative “Call me Back” SMS Service can be boon in tough times!

    by Arun Prabhudesai

    I am sure you have heard this phrase often – “Arre yaar mujhe missed call de de sirf” – Missed call phenomenon is rampant in India and it is for a reason. It helps millions of people in India communicate for free. It is also something that Telecom Operators

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    Tata unifies all CDMA, GSM and Photon consumers on brand Tata Docomo!

    by Arun Prabhudesai

    This is an excellent move by Tata Teleservices. According to the latest press release sent to us – Tata has decided that it will bring all their CDMA, GSM as well as Photon consumers all under one brand – Tata Docomo! Over last couple of years, Tata’s focus has

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    What’s wrong with BSNL – They have disconnected IDEA, Vodafone & others from their network!

    by Arun Prabhudesai

    Since last Saturday I am unable to make calls from my idea connection to any number on BSNL network connections. This is most likely due to the non-payment of interconnect usage charges (IUC) by Private Mobile Operators. IUC are essentially the charges paid by one operator to the other

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    Tata Launches Photon Max data card that offers 6.2 mbps speed

    by PR

    One of the biggest advantage of Data cards is its portability – however, unreliability of speeds has been a issue which plagues these data-cards as it mostly depends on the strength of the Wireless signals. Even then, most mobile executives prefer using these data cards. Till date – Data

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    India crosses 800 Million Telecom Subscribers –Adds 19m mobile users in Jan!

    by Arun Prabhudesai

    The Indian Telecom subscriber count has reached 806.13 Million by end of January 2011, thanks to unabated growth in mobile subscribers. India added 18.99 Million new Mobile subscribers in January to take the total mobile subscriber count to 771.18 Million. According to the latest report released by Telecom Regulatory

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