TATA DOCOMO launches 5 New GPRS Packs
- Category: TATA DoCoMo
- Tuesday, 12 January 2010 13:09
- by Puneet Jain
TATA DOCOMO has announced the launch of ‘GPRS on Demand’ via 5 comprehensive GPRS Packs . TATA DOCOMO GPRS Packs include a Daily Pack for Rs. 5 with a 10 MB download limit and validity till midnight on the day of recharge and a Monthly Pack for Rs. 48 with a 30 day validity along with Free 100MB Data limit during the Day and free 2GB Data limit during the Night.In a ‘first of its kind’ step, TATA DOCOMO is offering value by way of the quantum of data bundled via Day and Night data usage combined with a never before rate of just 1 paisa/20 Kb post the consumption of the free usage, within the validity period.
The 5 GPRS Packs are detailed in the table below:
| PACK | Day free (7am to 11pm) | Night free usage (11pm to 7am) |
Validity Days | Post Free usage with validity left |
| 95 | 200 | 4GB | 30 | 50p/1MB |
| 48 | 100 | 2GB | 30 | 50p/1MB |
| 33 | 50 | 1GB | 15 | 50p/1MB |
| 15 | 30 | 500MB | 3 | 50p/1MB |
| 5 | 10MB | 12 Mid Night | 50p/1MB | |
The above mentioned GPRS Packs will only be available to TATA DOCOMO subscribers on TATA DOCOMO home and roaming networks. Furthermore they are applicable on DOCOMO INTERNET APN only.
The GPRS Packs can be activated via multiple access modes i.e. SMS, Special EVD and Paper.
-To pull internet settings please sms "INTERNET" to 52270 and save them as default settings on your mobile
-To get Recharge Instruction for all packs: Call 12526(toll free) OR Dial *135*<pin># OK
-To activate the Rs. 5 Daily Pass, SMS "GPRS" to 121
The GPRS Packs can be activated via multiple access modes i.e. SMS, Special EVD and Paper.
-To pull internet settings please sms "INTERNET" to 52270 and save them as default settings on your mobile
-To get Recharge Instruction for all packs: Call 12526(toll free) OR Dial *135*<pin># OK
-To activate the Rs. 5 Daily Pass, SMS "GPRS" to 121
Get TATA DOCOMO Post Pay connection at your Doorstep. Dial 1800-266-0000
- Category: TATA DoCoMo
- Tuesday, 12 January 2010 10:26
- by Puneet Jain
Tata DOCOMO has launched “Postpay @ your doorstep”, an initiative where Tata DOCOMO would assist potential customers with their queries on new post pay connections. To avail this service, you just need to call the toll-free number 1800 266 0000 where you would be guided by Tata DOCOMO representatives. The representatives are trained to make use of scientific tools like Bill Plan Calculator that would help suggest the best value plan, customized to the needs of the customer, based on their usage amount and usage pattern.The customer once decided on a postpay plan, the call center executives sends a representative to collect the documents from customer’s location and deliver the SIM card whenever and wherever he desires.
Tata DOCOMO has also recently launched its new “Diet Plan” with the claim that with these plans the customers’ bills would go from “fat” to “fit”, an assured savings due to its aggressive per sec plans. As part of the new plans, at 299 rental customer can get 36000 local seconds free (600 mins), and all local and STD calls @ 1p/sec.
Tata DOCOMO has also recently launched its new “Diet Plan” with the claim that with these plans the customers’ bills would go from “fat” to “fit”, an assured savings due to its aggressive per sec plans. As part of the new plans, at 299 rental customer can get 36000 local seconds free (600 mins), and all local and STD calls @ 1p/sec.
TATA DOCOMO launches DOCOMICS
- Category: TATA DoCoMo
- Thursday, 07 January 2010 12:16
- by Puneet Jain
Tata DOCOMO has partnered with NTT DOCOMO to offer world renowned Manga and Marvel comics to Tata DOCOMO customers in India. DOCOMICS is a continuation to Tata DOCOMO’s recently announced unique industry first m-Comics service ,wherein customers could read Full Comics Books, along with special effects like character vibration, sounds, zooming text bubbles, and above all downloads smoothly on a 2.5 Edge Network.
Docomics will provide readers with various Marvel titles like Spider-Man, X-Men, Civil War and Japanese Manga titles like GEOBREEDERS, TAMAHAGANE, AQUA PLANET CHRONICLE, Silent Mobius Complete Edition, SHINESMAN, Old Friend.
As an introductory offer Tata DOCOMO customers will be charged only Rs 15 per comic chapter and there will be no data charges in home network.
DOCOMICS is the service brand for reading mobile comics through a viewer application. You can view the content frame by frame and can also download the same from WAP site or through the application.
Tata Docomo introduces "BuddyNet", local On-net @ 1 paise/6 seconds, STD @ 1 paise/2 seconds
- Category: TATA DoCoMo
- Tuesday, 05 January 2010 16:42
- by Mihir Patil
Tata Docomo has come up with a new scheme in all circles which allows all subscribers registered to "BuddyNet" service to make local Docomo to Docomo calls for as low as 1 paise/6 seconds 24x7 without any limit and all STD Docomo calls for 1 paise/ 2 seconds without any limit.As an inaugural offer the subsrciption is waived off for a month for existing customers and new customers will get a waiver of 2 months if they are registering for this service.After the given period subscriber will be charged Rs 7/week and there is no limit for the number of buddies you can connect with.
You also get 50 sms free for inviting your friends. You can either subscribe this service from internet from www.tatadocomo.com or send an sms in following format: JOIN to 121.
This is a good service for those who have many friends on Tata Docomo network.The effective call charge will be 10 paise/minute for local calls and 30 paise/minute for STD calls with a effective monthly rental of 30 Rs/month(7 Rs/week).
Tata Docomo introduces three new "Juice ups" for Mumbai and Maharashtra
- Category: TATA DoCoMo
- Monday, 28 December 2009 22:22
- by Mihir Patil
Tata Docomo has launched three new addon packs for subscribers in Mumbai,Maharashtra & Goa suddenly after Aircel started offering 1 paise/2 seconds for all local calls.In this race to become the numero uno operator of both these circles Tata Docomo has come up with packs which offers all local mobile calls to Tata network between 11 pm to 7 am and on Sundays at just 1 paise/6 seconds,all local calls to any network at 1 paise/2 seconds and 15,000 STD seconds for any network priced at 29,49 and 140 Rs respectively.The above said vouchers comes with a limited validity of 60 days for STD pack and 30 days for both local and On-net calls.Following are the details for the above three vouchers:
Now lets compare these offers with the offers launched by rival companies:
1.All local calls @ 1 paise/2 seconds:
Tata Docomo is the third company in Mumbai and second in Maharashtra to offer such scheme,other two companies being Aircel and MTS. Aircel is offering same scheme with a recharge of Rs 45 valid for a month. MTS is offering same scheme with a recharge of Rs 149 valid for 6 months with a talktime of 149 minutes but MTS is a CDMA operator so people will be lot more reluctant to switch. Tata Docomo is offering this scheme priced at Rs 49 valid for a month but the chances of people going for this scheme is more because of the network which is better than Aircel in both these circles.
2.On-net calls:
Recently Airtel started offering all local airtel calls between 11 pm to 6 am @ Rs 1/20 minutes with a recharge of Rs 23 valid for 30 days. Reliance started offering local and STD Reliance calls at 20 paise/min with RC 27 and RC 77 respectively valid for 30 days. Aircel started offering 5 lakh seconds free valid for a year. Tata Docomo is offering Docomo to Docomo 5 lakh local seconds valid for a year as well as Docomo to Tata network(Docomo,Tata Indicom and Virgin) at 1 paise/6 seconds between 11 pm to 7 am and also on Sundays with a recharge of Rs 29 valid for 30 days. All these schemes are good for people having maximum people on their network.Reliance somehow wins the race because they are already offering calls and sms's at cheaper rate so the people going for Reliance are more and same might be the chances for this scheme plus they offer calls at same rate 24x7 unlike 11 pm to 6 am of Airtel and 11 pm to 7 am of Tata Docomo.
3.STD rates:
Reliance is providing all STD calls to any network @ 1 Rs/3 minutes with a recharge of Rs 41 so the tariff rate applicable is 33 paise/minute which is valid for Lifetime. Tata Docomo is offering 15,000 seconds which if calculated will become 250 minutes.This voucher is priced @ Rs 140 so the tariff rate applicable is 56 paise/minute which is valid for 60 days. Reliance clearly wins the race in this segment also.
Now if we sum up the things being offered by all operators in this lucrative market, Reliance and Tata Docomo are the only operators which show true promise to challenge the big operators like Airtel, Vodafone and !dea. Aircel has also shown some commitment by offering competitive tariff in both these circles. What do you think? Share your views.
TATA DOCOMO Dive In Stores exclusively previewing HTC HD2
- Category: TATA DoCoMo
- Wednesday, 09 December 2009 18:36
- by Puneet Jain
TATA DOCOMO has announced that it will preview HTC HD2 exclusively across the TATA DOCOMO Dive-In Stores in India.This exclusive preview will be held from the 8th of December to the 14th of December. Subsequently, the sale of the HTC HD2 handset will start from the 15th of December and there will be 7 days of sales exclusivity, wherein the handset can be purchased only from a TATA DOCOMO Dive In Store.
Key Features of the HTC HD2
- Super Slim - Pencil thin silhouette , only 11 mm
- 1 GHz Snapdragon processor
- 4.3-Inch biggest Touch sensitive screen
- First capacitive screen ( FULL TOUCH ) in Windows Phone
- 5.0MP+Auto Focus+ Dual Flash lights
- Bluetooth 2.1 + EDR
- GPS
- Wi-Fi Enabled
- Never get lost with friends with social networks (Facebook, Twitter, Flicker)
TATA DOCOMO launches BlackBerry Curve 8520
- Category: TATA DoCoMo
- Saturday, 28 November 2009 17:46
- by Puneet Jain
TATA DOCOMO, the GSM brand of Tata Teleservices Limited, and Research In Motion (RIM) unveiled the BlackBerry CurveTM 8520 smartphone priced at Rs. 14990.Announcing the launch of the BlackBerry Curve 8520 Mr. Pradeep Dwivedi, Senior Vice President, Tata Teleservices Limited, said “TATA DOCOMO recently rolled out its BlackBerry solution and has received an enthusiastic response. When we launched our BlackBerry services, we had promised our subscribers that we would bring them the best products and services.Living up to that brand promise, we are launching the stylish new BlackBerry Curve8520 smartphone for our customers. The major attraction of the BlackBerry Curve 8520 is that it brings the exceptional BlackBerry smartphone experience within the reach of a larger population.”
Features of BlackBerry Curve 8520
| Feature | BlackBerry 8520 |
| Wireless email/Organizer/Browser/Phone | Yes |
| Camera | Yes |
| Video recording | Yes |
| Media Player | Yes |
| SMS/MMS | Yes |
| GPS | No |
| Length/ Width/ Depth/ Weight | 4.429"/ 2.36"/ 0.54"/ 106g |
| Trackball/Trackwheel/Trackpad | Trackpad |
| Keyboard | QWERTY |
| Built-in speakerphone | Yes |
| Bluetooth | Yes |
| Color display | High resolution 320x240 |
| Standby time / Talk Time | 17 Days / 4.5 Hrs |
| Flash memory / microSD card | 256 MB / Yes |
| Wi-Fi | Yes |
| Works on 900/1800/850/1900/900/1800/GPRS/EDGE Network | Yes |
Tata Docomo Introduces Docomo to Docomo Free Calling Voucher In Maharashtra
- Category: TATA DoCoMo
- Thursday, 26 November 2009 22:56
- by Mihir Patil
Tata Docomo,after the successful launch of Per second roaming tariff has come up with a new voucher which offers free Tata Docomo to Tata Docomo calling for a year.This tariff can be clubbed with your existing connection.This offer has come at a time when MTS,a CDMA player who has been aggressive enough to offer schemes like MTS-MTS unlimited for as low as Rs.99 for a month is planning to launch its services in Mumbai and Maharashtra.This scheme of Tata Docomo may not be welcomed by all types of subcribers as there are many odds.Following are the tariff details:-
Amount- 99/- electronic special recharge
Validity- 1 year
Rates- 5,00,000 seconds Tata Docomo to Tata Docomo calling free.
Rates- 5,00,000 seconds Tata Docomo to Tata Docomo calling free.
Every month 695 minutes will be added to customer's promotional balance for a year.Deduction will be as per per second tariff.Customer has to use the allotted 695 minutes in a month else they will be lapsed.
We say:- 695 minutes per month is not useful for those who prefer long duration calls.On an average a customer gets 23 minutes/day which is way lower than expected but the pricing at which it comes for and the validity of 1 year is something which short call duration lovers would be interested in.All in all a good offer but would have been great had the free minutes been more.
Tata DOCOMO Inaugurates its first Unique Experience Centre in Mumbai
- Category: TATA DoCoMo
- Friday, 20 November 2009 12:41
- by Puneet Jain
TATA DOCOMO has announced the inauguration of its first unique Experience Centre in the city of Mumbai. The Experience Centre is not just a retail outlet, but high-end destination where a consumer can come and interact with services and experience what the future holds. It will also showcase a whole new world of Value Added Services allowing visitors to explore the latest in telecom technology and gadgets.Its located at Hill Road, Bandra,. It allows visitors to explore the digital future on their own terms and to be ahead of the curve by getting a firsthand experience. The store was inaugurated by Dr. Mukund Rajan, Managing Director, Tata Teleservices (Maharashtra) Limited and Soha Ali Khan.
Speaking on the occasion Mr. Abdul Khan, Head-Tata DoCoMo Marketing and Advisor to the MD, Tata Teleservices (Maharashtra) Limited, said: "Our intent is to create a unique TATA DOCOMO experience showcasing the mobility of the future. It is a unique and revolutionary concept which offers a relaxing and an interactive environment for our consumers. We are focused on ensuring that our customers get a first hand feel of the brand TATA DOCOMO in Mumbai – a brand that has created waves in the Indian telecom arena with its distinctive proposition and positioning.”
TATA DOCOMO Launches GSM Mobile Services in UP East and UP West
- Category: TATA DoCoMo
- Monday, 16 November 2009 23:21
- by Puneet Jain
TATA DOCOMO, the GSM brand of Tata Teleservices Limited, today announced the commercial launch of its operations in the UP East and UP West telecom circles. TATA DOCOMO is already present in Tamil Nadu, Kerala, Orissa, Karnataka, Andhra Pradesh, Mumbai, Rest of Maharashtra, Madhya Pradesh-Chhattisgarh, Haryana, Kolkata, Jharkhand-Bihar and Punjab.TATA DOCOMO also announced “Pay-for-what-you-use” model, with a pulse of one second, and a pricing of 1 paisa per second. The company’s pan-India service rollout, which was kicked off in end-June, will be completed this year itself.
“We are focusing strongly on network superiority, coverage and service offerings. Our network footprint is the largest among all telecom operators in the UP East and UP West telecom circles, at the time of launch. We have already made large investments in Uttar Pradesh, and further expansion in this financial year itself is on the anvil,” Mr Anjan Patole, TATA DOCOMO’s Chief Operating Officer for UP East, said.
“TATA DOCOMO will unveil a portfolio of Value-Added Services that will reinvent mobile telephony in India, with products and services like diet-sms, Free Voicemail, Timed SMS Service, Free Missed Call Alerts, Call-me Tunes, etc—all of them customized to liberate and refresh our subscribers,” Mr Mrinal Roy, TATA DOCOMO’s Chief Operating Officer for UP West, said.