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Andhra the biggest mobile circle

according to TRAI. Read the full report at MediaNama

|October 12th, 2010|Category: News|Write a Comment!

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 [...]

|July 27th, 2009|Category: Apps|1 Comment, Add Yours!

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.

|July 24th, 2009|Category: News|Write a Comment!

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.

|July 24th, 2009|Category: SMS Related|1 Comment, Add Yours!

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 [...]

|July 22nd, 2009|Category: News|Write a Comment!

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 [...]

|July 22nd, 2009|Category: News|Write a Comment!

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> [...]

|July 20th, 2009|Category: Apps|Write a Comment!

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

|July 20th, 2009|Category: Free SMS|Write a Comment!

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]

|July 20th, 2009|Category: News|Write a Comment!

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 [...]

|July 20th, 2009|Category: News|Write a Comment!