Posts Authored by jay
Andhra the biggest mobile circle
according to TRAI. Read the full report at MediaNama
Online Prepaid Recharge in India with rechargeitnow.com
Here is an application I’ve been waiting for. Rechargeitnow.com provides online recharing of mobile phones from almost all the major service providers in India. All the regions of Airtel, Idea, Vodafone, Loop, Tata Indicom, Reliance, BSNL and Virgin can be charged with the service. For Aircel the regions except Tamil Nadu, Chennai, Karnataka and Kerala [...]
Aircel Pune – call North India at 50p per minute
Aimed at the large migrant population, Aircel presents Aircel offers On-net STD to UP, UttaraKhand, Bihar, Chennai & Delh at @ 50p.
SMS Novel – Pinki Virani’s Deaf Heaven
Pinki Virani’s novel Deaf Heaven will be written as 90 SMSes and will be made available by Reliance in August. I should admit that I am a sceptic as to whether it SMS is a good method of delivering literature. But, well, we’ll wait and see.
TATA Docomo Tarrif Plans and Docomo’s strategy in India
Prepaid Starter Pack – Price: 49 Rupees, Validity: Life-time, Talk-time bundled: 25 Minutes Local Call – 1 paise/sec, Std Call: 1 paise/sec Local SMS – 60 paise/SMS after 3sms then 750sms free per dayNational SMS – 1.2 Rupee/SMS International SMS – 5 Rupees/SMS Docomo is arguably the technologically the most advanced telecom provider in the [...]
Could SMS Gupshup become Life Lines in India
Asks the Georgetown Univesity’s Global Communication Class’s group blog. The Indian Red Cross Society could have made a call for blood donors via Twitter and GupShup seconds after the Mumbai attacks. Including a link in the message could have led donors to locations in Mumbai where donations were needed. Further, these “Red Cross authenticated” messages [...]
Get Directions in Bangalore with Latlong.in
Need help locating a place in Bangalore? Want to find out how to get there? SMS to 90088 90088 Latlong SMS service that assists people in locating any place and obtain driving directions using SMS on their mobile phones. To locate a place,sms WHERE <place name> orsms WHERE <place name> NEAR <Landmark or Area> [...]
Group Chat with SMS via Gupshup
SMS Gupshup, India’s most popular SMS Service has introduced group chat. Create a group with an SMS and after that send SMSes to everyone in that group. Link
Indian mobile market keeps growing while rest falter
This is a stat to point to anyone who doubts that the future is a Chindia story – While the United kingdom lost 6 lakh customers, and just Vodafone in Turkey lost 1.24 million subscribers, total subscribers in India has increased by 130 million last quarter. [link1, link2, link3]
14 year jail term for an SMS Joke on Pakistan President
Robber: Give me all your money! Zardari: Don’t you know who I am? I am Asif Ali Zardari! Robber: Okay. Give me all my money! Totalitarians hate empowering technologies. The TOI reports that the Government of pakistan has announced that ending indecent, provocative and ill-motivated stories through e-mails and text messages was an offence under [...]
