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5 things your operator won’t tell you

ET has a candid piece on the fraudulent practises many operators use to make more money off the gullible user.

Operators introduce greetings SMS into the system on days like Diwali, Friendship day etc. to induce users to forward them
Ignorance of premium pricing for VAS services leads to inflated bills
Within-network offers won’t neccessarily work cheaper for [...]

End of Cablewalla Raj

My latest post on Technology Walla.
Even if DTH only manages to reach the projected 25% penetration of cable homes in 5 years, it would have gained a major victory for the consumer. DTH gives the consumer an alternative to the cable operator, an option which he did not have before.

Happy Independence Day

India is celebrating its 59th Independence Day today. Wishing all of you a great 15th August. Jai Hind!

Helion invests $2.2 million in JiGrahak

After content aggregators, Indian mobile payment companies are attracting VC funding.
Helion Venture Partners has announced an investment of $2.2 million in Bangalore-based mobile commerce company JiGrahak.
JiGrahak’s product NGPay is a free downloadable mobile application which enables users to book flight tickets, buy movies tickets, to buy goods and services, and make payment through mobile [...]

Sunday Humour

Santa & Banta got tired of mobiles.
So they decide to use pigeons.
One day a pigeon reaches Banta without message.
Angry Banta calls Santa and asks for an explanation.
Santa says “Oye, this was a missed call yaar!”

Mobile Monday Mumbai - August Event

The second event of Mobile Monday Mumbai will be on the topic “Mobile User Generated Content” and will be hosted at the office of Mouthshut.com.
Faisal Farooqui of MouthShut.com, Krishna Durbha of Reliance Communications and Karan Grover of Nokia will be leading the discussions.
Check out MoMo Mumbai’s website for more details and registration info.

Technology Walla

Starting today, I will be writing the India dispatch on CNET Asia on my blog Technology Walla.
The blog is focused on the technology trends / IT lifestyle (non-enterprise, more personal tech) in India. Read the first post - Yuva India! Viva India!
Other tech bloggers under the banner of Regional Dispatches are: Matsushita Shuji - [...]

Hutch Hadtal

Mobile product retailers in Mumbai have been on strike since a month, protesting against a cut in by mobile operators.
For over a month now, retailers have not been selling recharge vouchers and new connections of Hutch, Airtel and BPL in most areas of Mumbai. They were protesting against reduction in commission from 3.25% to 2.36%. [...]

MoMo Mumbai - Event report

Have posted the event report of Mobile Monday Mumbai held on July 3rd.
Also, a list of participants along with the presentations, pictures, audio and video.

IDC Mobile Service Usage & Satisfaction Survey 2006

According to IDC’s Mobile Service Usage and Satisfaction Survey 2006, only Spice Telecom fares above the 95% overall customer satisfaction benchmark set by TRAI.
The good news is that industry average of satisfaction score for all the telecom players has gone up by two percentage points over last year.
As many as 28 per cent of users [...]

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