Published on
30th Mar 2008 in
Indian Telecom, Mobiles, Tata Indicom and Telecom News.
Tags: Department of Telecom, Funny, India, Internet, Tata, Tata Teleservices, Tatas, Virgin, Virgin India, Virgin India Mobile, Virgin India sucks, Virgin Sucks.
Why would a company choose it’s name as “Virgin”; I have no clue. The unholy alliance between Tatas and Virgin came through and got a sanction from Department of Telecom. They are legally bound to stay together; unless Virgin decides to act funny and kick Tatas below the belt, literally.
I am opposed to the deal because it means that the telecom companies are entering the country via “brand tie ups”. What avoids AT&T or for that matter any other company buying undisclosed stock and shares and entering in the country in the name of brand building?
I have never liked the limeys and been always fearful of their intentions. This is reverse colonisation in the garb of globalisation. Instead of hailing this as the next big thing in Telecom industry, Tatas ought to be ashamed to have sold their “assets” for a fistful of pounds.
Virgin sucks. Their PR disasters are well known. They have not been able to issue a denial nor actively court the media. It wouldn’t be out of place to mention that unless they actively engage the bloggers (who are potential customers), they wouldn’t get their dues. Further, most of the Gen X generation would probably search Internet before they settle in for this service.
A company that cannot clarify it’s intentions before the launch cannot be relied on providing decent after sales service.
This is just the worst form of advertising being done by Bharti Airtel. These guys need to think about the message they are conveying to the end customer.
Sam noticed the Xbox 360 videogame controller in the graphic… So perhaps the company is trying to say… Play videogames online on Airtel Broadband and you would have a life. Otherwise, you ought to be ashamed of it!
So far, I have not had user reviews. A Google search with search line “virgin mobile sucks” reveals a lot. (hat tip: A reader on this blog)
The blog posts are in top 10 of the search results. Not a very flattering way to start the mobile business in India. Google would store this for posterity.
Continue reading ‘Virgin India Mobile: Now in Google Search’
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I thought I would post this interesting observation by a member of the India Broadband Forum. The user tried asking for support by sending an email.
But the message was not delivered coz apparently the support email id had no space left on the MTNL servers.
He ended up getting this message:
Recipient address: triband.helpdesk@ims-ms-daemon
Original address: triband.helpdesk@mtnl.net.in
Reason: Over quota
I have had an excellent review of this handset; my sibling was using this handset for the past 1 year and reported no loss of functionality with it. It has a brilliant colour screen which makes it readbale in full daylight.
I wouldn’t go in the technical specifications; what got me interested was that it comes with Opera Mini preloaded. Unfortunately, my current service provider, Vodafone, has one of the lousiest GPRS access with sky high rates for access. This makes it unviable in the present context.
It would be worthwhile to shift to Reliance GSM, as and when they launch and when the number portability kicks in. It doesn’t get better than this, isnt it? You get to retain your number and expect to look in for a better service.
