Here is an application I’ve been waiting for. Rechargeitnnow.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 can be charged.

Aimed at the large migrant population, Aircel presents Aircel offers On-net STD to UP, UttaraKhand, Bihar, Chennai & Delh at @ 50p.

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.

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 day
National 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 are watching closely their joint venture with the Tatas in India. The tarrif plan makes it clear that they have understood the nature of the Indian Market.

Now waiting for their value added services, as indeed that is what DoCoMo is famous for.

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 helped potential blood donors avoid confusion given the multitude of blood donation-related tweets that emerged after the attacks.

Mumbai taught us that, during times of strife, people across India are willing to help and have stories to tell.  It’s up to humanitarian organizations such as the Red Cross to empower these citizens with the right tools to reach out and share these experiences.

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>
  or
sms WHERE <place name> NEAR <Landmark or Area>

Examples

Use keyword WHERE to find out where a place is.
For example, use:

1. WHERE tyagaraja nagar
2. WHERE gnr kalyana mantap NEAR jayanagar
3. WHERE suranjan das road
4. WHERE icici atm NEAR south end circle

Use keyword GO to get help going to a place.
For example, use:

1. GO rajajinagar entrance FROM itpl
2. GO victoria layout TO navrang cinema
3. GO hebbal flyover FROM dairy circle

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

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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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 Cyber Crime Act (CCA) and its violators could be sent behind bars for 14 years.

according to a Telecom Analysis Report from Juniper Research.