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.

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 world. Consumers and Competitors [...]

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 could have [...]

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.
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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 the [...]

Mobile messaging revenue to cross 100 billion dollars by 2013

according to a Telecom Analysis Report from Juniper Research.

Student Power pack from BSNL

BSNL has introduced a scheme called the Student Power Pack with intra-circle call rates of 49 paise and 2000 free SMSes in a year.

Motorola India customer care number

1800 11 1211 (toll free from MTNL/BSNL) - or - [City code] + 39026686 (local charges apply)

Mobile number for identification

Mobile number could become identification number in India.
“We are working with the government of India so that mobile number can be used as ID number of a person,” said Alcatel-Lucent India president Vivek Mohan.
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Bharti Airtel CEO sells entire stake worth 3.13 crore

in the open market.
Traditionally, one of the  indicators used to examine the management’s confidence in the future prospects of a public company was how much shares the senior management owned.
Does it still hold? Seems so judging by the price change in Bharti Airtel’s stock.