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Vodafone (Kerala) launches Onam and Ramadan Offers

Vodafone has announced the launch of two special offers - Onam offer & Ramadan offer -for its subscribers in Kerala on the occasion of Onam and Ramdan.

Onam special bonus card is available at Rs. 86. It is valid for 30 days. This bonus cards offers Vodafone to Vodafone calls at 30p/min, Free 300 local vodafone to vodafone night minutes, 68 local Vodafone to Vodafone minutes. This pack also offers calls to Kuwait, Bahrain, Saudi Arabia and UAE at 12 p/second (Qatar and Oman at 17p/second).

To activate this pack dial 121 or *555*86# from you vodafone number. This recharge is also available from retail outlets.

Additionally, subscribers can choose Onam special songs to set as ringtones and caller tunes at Rs.15 for 90 days . Onam Songs can also dedicated friends and family  by dialing 567410, a special Onam number, charged at Rs. 6 per minute.

On the occasion of Ramadan, Vodafone offers full talk time on a recharge of Rs 786 which allows subscribers to make calls to the Gulf at 12p/sec (Oman and Qatar at 17 p/second). This offer is valid for 30 days from the day of recharge. Customers can  dial the Special Ramadan Number 5674786 and download devotional songs as their caller tunes and ringtones at Rs 6 per minute.

Uninor extends Dynamic Pricing plan to all STD calls in UP East

Uninor’s UP East subscribers can now make calls at 20-48 p/min as Uninor has announced the extension of its Dynamic Pricing plan to all STD calls in UP East.  This discount is not just applicable on local but STD calls too - from Uninor to any operator.

Dynamic Pricing on STD calls is available on recharge of Rs. 28 with the validity of 90 days & Local calls is available on recharge of Rs 48 with the validity of 1 year.

All those who do not know what is Dynamic Pricing, here is what it is :
Dynamic Pricing offers discounts that change with location and time. Every cell phone tower broadcasts a different discount. This discount is always visible on the screens of all mobile phones in that area. So discounts change as a customer moves from the coverage of one tower to the next. At the same location, the discount changes every hour.

Tata DOCOMO launches ‘Free Air Time Rollover’ plan for Postpay subscribers

TATA DOCOMO has launched yet another first in the industry; ‘Free Air Time Rollover’  (FAT) offer for its potential postpay customers. Under this offer customers can roll over their current unused free air time to next month. The roll over of free air time for a period of 6 months. The Free Air Time roll over plan is available under the 20 options of  Diet 299 and Diet 499 plans.

If customers are unable to use the complete FAT Rollover offered in the plan in one month, the same is carried forward to next month along with the regular monthly FAT Rollover. The cumulative FAT Rollover will be available for a period of 6 months. Post the sixth month; the cumulative un-utilized FAT Rollover will be forfeited.

To know more TATA DOCOMO's new ‘Free Air Time Rollover’  (FAT) offer click here

Idea Cellular introduces new Student Pack in UP West

IDEA Cellular has launched a ‘Student Pack’ for UP West telecom circle. It comes loaded with Tariff & VAS benefits.  The new Idea Student Pack offers Local Idea calling within the group, at just 15 paise per minute for 1 year, however the 1st minute of the day would be charged at Re.1. The new pack also allows the students to send free 100 SMS’ nationally or locally everyday, for a period of 3 months however the first SMS of the day will be charged at Re. 1.

All other Local and STD calls will be charged at 50 paise per minute. SMS beyond the free 100 SMS will also be charged at just 50 paise per SMS.

IDEA Cellular's Student Pack is also offering up to 50 MB of GPRS usage free for first 30 days. Students will also get Rs.5 worth of Talktime free every month, for the first three months.

The new Idea Pack can be availed by new Idea prepaid subscribers by doing a recharge of Rs. 48. The new student pack is available at all retail outlets, My Idea Showrooms and Idea Points in UP West circle.

Tata DOCOMO launches 'Nepal Calling Pack'

Tata DOCOMO has introduced Nepal Calling Pack - ‘STV 32’. The ‘Nepal Calling Pack’ has been exclusively launched for prepaid Tata DOCOMO customers in Kolkata and Rest of West Bengal.

Tata DOCOMO Nepal Calling Pack - ‘STV 32’ is available at Rs.32. It offers 11 paisa per second tariff for 30 days from the day of recharge. Customers can call at same rate of 11p/sec to any landline and fixed-line numbers in Nepal, after recharging with Nepal Calling Pack.

Nokia’s Ovi Life Tools launched on Bharti Airtel’s mobile service

Nokia Ovi Life Tools are now available for Bharti Airtel subscribers. Nokia and Bharti Airtel joined hands to launch Ovi Life Tools service targeted at providing Airtel’s mobile customers with access to relevant content on agriculture, education and entertainment. The partnership between Nokia  and Airtel will let the Indian users access to information available in a simple icon based, graphically rich user interface.

Airtel users will be able to activate Ovi Life Tools on their mobiles and can subscribe to Ovi Life Tools starting at Rs 10 per pack.

This service is available on a range of Nokia handsets including the entry level devices and is available in 11 Indian languages including Hindi, Gujarati, Tamil, Telugu, Bengali, Oriya, Assamese, Marathi, Malayalam, Kannada and Punjabi in addition to English.

Ovi Life tools on Airtel includes :

• Agriculture Services : Personalised agriculture related information, weather updates, crop advisory and market prices of produce.
• Education Services : Learn English, General Knowledge and Exam preperation modules covering State and Central Boards
• Entertainment Services : Download wallpapers, ringtones, RBT, games, jokes, news  etc.

Reliance Mobile introduces Braille Bill Service for visually impaired

TATA Indicom launches ‘Call-n-Tweet’ service

TATA Indicom subscribers can now Tweet on Voice. This ‘Call-n-Tweet’ service will enable Tata Indicom subscribers to update their Twitter status by posting Voice Tweets (short audio snippets) from their mobile without logging on the internet.

To use this service TATA Indicom subsribers need to sign up at callntweet.com by using their twitter account details. Once registration is complete users can Voice tweet by dialing 50007. The subscribers pay a price of Re 0.80 for sending a voice tweet from their mobile.

The Call-n-Tweet service on Tata Teleservices network had been sourced from Kirusa.

Mauj Mobile acquires Mobango social mobile application store

Mauj Mobile, People Group's Mobile VAS company has announced that it has acquired UK based Mobango, one of the world’s largest independent mobile application and User Generated content store.

With the advent of 3G and availability of feature rich smart phones at low prices in India Mauj expects consumption of data-based services to increase significantly. This deal will allow Mauj to provide its partners, in India and abroad, a wider array of applications and content for their customers whilst further consolidating its foothold in the telecom managed services space.

Mobango has customers worldwide across all geographies with a big proportion of customers also from India.  All downloads on Mobango are free for its end consumers. Mobango has served over 750 million downloads and currently generates in excess of 300 million downloads per annum to their customers.  Mobango has one of the largest developer communities in the world who upload a large number of mobile applications to its store every single day.

Commenting on this development, Mr. Anupam Mittal, Founder and CEO, People Group said, “Mauj was founded with a vision of providing compelling content and applications over the mobile internet. Mobango's acquisition is another step in that direction. Mobango is a pioneer of the rapidly growing Pay Per Download (PPD) business model and is one of the world's largest independent app-store, so we are obviously very excited to round off our Applications, Content & Communities offering.”

Mr. Fabio Pezzoti, Founder Mobango said, "We are delighted to have concluded the transaction with Mauj Mobile, a leading Mobile VAS company in the fastest growing telecom market in the world.  With Mauj and Mobango coming together, customers and partners of both the companies will benefit through a broader choice of products and services.”