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| Wednesday, August 26, 2009 |
| Reliance BharatNet + Grameen VAS - Rural initiatives |
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Reliance Communications, part of the Anil Dhirubhai Ambani Group (ADAG), sees a huge potential for its products in the rural market. The company has announced a slew of initiatives like BharatNet, Grameen VAS and M2M to increase its presence in the rural segment.
BharatNet is a high-speed wireless Internet service that will cover 20,000 rural locations. It will offer speeds of approximately 153 kbps. The service will be available across rural India, excluding metros and top 100 cities, at a weekly tariff of Rs 98 per week with download up to 350 MB.
Grameen VAS, a mobile phone based offering, will offer several specialised services such as Mandi Bhav (market price), agriculture and animal husbandry updates, weather forecast, local information, and news in multiple Indian languages. The service is priced at Rs 15 a month.
The M2M solutions include mobile applications that will help automation, surveillance, remote monitoring and data gathering.
The company stated that investments in the rural initiatives would be marginal and would not impact other initiatives. |
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| Tuesday, August 18, 2009 |
| MTNL Triband Rates Drop - Compete with Airtel |
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State owned Telecom, MTNL good in the wireline and broadband business has taken the later business very seriously after we criticized its Wireless and 3G operations and sent it to the management. In direct response to our critic is what we feel, MTNL launched a broadband price war with Bharti Airtel.
Here is comparison of various UNLIMITED Data Transfer Broadband Plans of MTNL and Airtel Broadband.
Speed - 512 Kbps
MTNL Triband - Rs 999
Airtel - Rs 1099 + Free Calling Value Worth Rs. 100
Speed 1 Mbps
MTNL Triband - Rs 1599
Airtel - Rs 1699 + Free Calling Value Worth Rs. 100 + Free Gaming + Free Anti Virus
Speed 2 Mbps
MTNL Triband - Rs 3999
Airtel - Rs 2999 + Free Calling Value Worth Rs. 300 + Free Gaming + Free Anti Virus
Speed 4 Mbps
MTNL Triband - Rs 9,999
Airtel doesn't offer the same.
Airtel, Tata, Reliance and other private players have data transfer limit even for UNLIMITED Plans under fair usage policy [This is not authorized by TRAI nor DoT nor Government and is totally unfair]. MTNL doesn't have any such policy and if you are a bdnwidth HOG, you can ty MTNL and let us know your review. |
| Published on Tuesday, August 18, 2009 at 7:44 PM |
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| Comparison of Tata Photon+ - Reliance NetConnect Broadband+ |
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Tata Photon+ and Reliance Netconnect Broadband+ are wireless based broadband services better than their predecessor technologies Wimax and have been gaining lot of traction. Both are offering very similar plans at almost the same rates. Therefore, the distinguishing factor will be "Quality of Service and Support".
Here is a comparison of various Tata Photon+ plans - Life, Power Surf, Use n Pay, Super Surf etc and Reliance Netconnect Broadband+ Plans - City, Night Pay as you go etc
We would like to hear from you as a customer about
Quality of Service
Support
Broadband Speed using Bandwidth Meter
from both of these service providers. |
| Published on at 10:54 AM |
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| Monday, August 10, 2009 |
| Airtel wireless data card in Delhi |
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Bharti Airtel, the leading Indian private sector telecom services provider, has launched its wireless data card for prepaid users in Delhi and the national capital region (NCR).
The data card will offer Internet connectivity for laptops and other computing devices while on the move. When on national roaming the data card can also work on all the partner networks of Airtel. Further when it is on international roaming, the data card is compatible with GSM network
The prepaid data card is being offered at a monthly rental of Rs.348 where downloading of up to 500 MB is free per month.
Bharti Airtel has operational presence in India and Sri Lanka and an aggregate of over 105.20 million customers as of end of June 2009. The company offers mobile, telemedia and enterprise services. |
| Published on Monday, August 10, 2009 at 1:19 PM |
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| Wednesday, August 05, 2009 |
| Tata Photon + Reliance NetConnect have 5 Lakh Customers |
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Tata Photon+ and Reliance NetConnect Broadband+ internet service on EVDO technology has reached customer base close to 500,000 according to Qualcomm, the technology provider which supplies the necessary USB dongles for the same. The company is expecting to ship another 1,000,000 USB Dongles within the next 12 months as demand has been steady. Not a bad start according to us.
Mr. Singh President of Qualcomm India said,
3G dongle prices have already moved from $50 to $40 and we are working towards making i available at $25. We are really glad that operators like Airtel and Vodafone haven't raised the issue as Tata Photon+ and Reliance NetConnect Broadband+ are 3G services using the underlying 2G infrastructure. |
| Published on Wednesday, August 05, 2009 at 6:27 PM |
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