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Shah Rukh Khan in Airtel Super Lifetime Prepaid Ad

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Mobiles in India: The next future?

I don’t like to be optimistic. Like every “big” story, there are loads of failures to dampen your interest in the “revolution”. For one simple reason. Even if the potential is there, it is not touching our lives at all. … Continue reading

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Indian Telecom:Myth

One in every third prepaid subscriber is fake. If this isn’t “chilling”, it ought not to be to you dear readers because I have been asserting here that the valuations of these companies have been artificially bloated. Of course, it … Continue reading

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Reliance: Updates

Reliance has huge investments lined up for the next 6 months. The planned wireline is being “final touches”; the prepaid service is on course and has been confirmed. I wonder as to why the marketing idiots are hell bent on … Continue reading

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Reliance WebWorld Express: A horrific tale

The telecom operators don’t get it, do they? Coming at the heels of a frustrated customer of Hutch there’s another personal experience with Reliance. Reliance Info is one of the largest pan India CDMA players. Yet, they don’t gurantee adequate … Continue reading

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Incoming myths

Last year saw flurry of actvity to allow “incoming for life”. The first salve was fired up by Tata’s with their offer of free incoming for 2 years. Bundled with a crappy handset, it did notch up some aquisitions. The … Continue reading

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GSM-Confusions galore!

If we need proof enough about the growing market of GSM mobiles, you just have to check out the various “plans”. Each one seems to be tempting than the other; all kinds of charges thrown in; free this and free … Continue reading

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