India Broadband

Indian mobile service providers Bharti Airtel and Reliance Communications have both announced their reduced roaming tariffs.

These two companies have also announced the scrapped rental rates for roaming services. These announcements are to meet the recently released guidelines issued by the Telecom Regulatory Authority of India last month.

Bharti Airtel said that they have now slashed roaming charges by 56%. They have also now waived off the roaming rental of Rs 49 per month.

In addition, their local calls while roaming will be charged at Rs 1.40 per minute. STD calls would be charged at a fixed 2.40 per minute. Incoming calls on roaming would cost Rs 1.75 per minute.

Sanjay Kapoor, joint president (mobile services), Bharti Airtel added on these new announcements: “We now usher in an era of simplified roaming tariffs wherein all Airtel mobile users will benefit from our seamless network and have the opportunity to make calls while traveling anywhere in India.”

Reliance on the other hand has announced that they are reducing their roaming charges by up to 44% on its pre-paid connections. They have not been charging any roaming fees from their customers.

Question sent to so called Reliance Technical Team:
I am planning to go for reliance broadnet. Since login is needed to access internet every time, how can I configure wireless network with reliance broadnet?

Answer By Reliance Technical Team:
“Dear customer,

Greetings of the day!

With reference to your mail regarding broadband connection with wireless router, we regret to inform your that at present there is no functionality to process this request, whenever we launch the same, you would be notified through relevant media channels.

With reference your mail, we would like to inform you that the ADSL Modem is in Bridge Mode and there is no facility to access the web interface of ADSL Modem.

For additional product and service related information you may contact us through any of the following means:

Phone:
*377 from any Reliance fixed phone
1800 22 7773 from any MTNL / BSNL phone
022-3033 7777 from any phone
Email: broadband@relianceada.com
(Working hours between 9 am to 9 pm)
Fax: 022-30337878.
Website: Reliance Communications.

Yours sincerely,
Broadband Customer Care
Reliance Communications”

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Gimme a break.
I’m pretty sure that this is not the case,its just that the Reliance Technical Support seems Incompetent to answer this question, so this seems a lame reply to me.

What do you think about this????

Anil Ambani’s Reliance Communications has said that they are collaborating with the US based Internet giants Yahoo! to bring the ability to communicate with their friends and relatives through mobile Yahoo! Messenger.

This service would be offered to all their customers throughout the country.

This Reliance’s Mobile Instant Messenger would be Yahoo’s first Wireless Village compliant implementation in Asia. This instant messaging solution has been developed by ACL Wireless for Reliance and Yahoo.

Reliance Communications would thus become the sole telecom service provider in the world to offer MIM across Java, BREW and WAP phones on a mobile operator network.

The subscribers to this service would get offline messages by SMS from their buddies on the Yahoo! Messenger service.