Loop Announces Free Email Service For A Year – Loop Mail

by | posted: February 7, 2011
Earlier today, Loop Mobile announced on its website a new service called Loop Mail. It will be SMS based, so it doesn’t even require a GPRS connection. And the type of handset wouldn’t matter...
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BSNL, Reliance Emerge As Early Losers In MNP Race As Vodafone Gains The Most

by | posted: January 25, 2011
We’ve been following the ‘churn’ from Mobile Number Portability pretty closely.(here and here). BusinessLine has another article with some very interesting information about which way...
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A Look At Mobile Number Portability Before Its Pan India Launch

by | posted: January 18, 2011
January 20th could finally be the day we get Pan-India Mobile Number Portability. According to a report in Business Line – at least 5 major service providers have confirmed that they would roll out...
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Expect More Unsolicited Calls While Regulators Wrangle Over Authority

by | posted: December 23, 2010
Last month, we wrote that TRAI has issued new guidelines for unwanted calls. These guidelines proposed to do away with National Do Not Call Registry and replace it with a Customer Call Preference Regulation....
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Idea Plans To Roll Out 3G Services In Gujarat Early Next Year

by | posted: December 9, 2010
Business Standard reported that Idea Cellular is rolling out 3G services in the state of Gujarat by March next year. One of the oldest mobile operators in the state Idea has bagged 3G spectrum license...
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Mobile Number Portability’s Data Churn And How Telcos Will Implement It!

by | posted: December 7, 2010
Well, Mobile Number Portability has been here for 12 days. Ok, not here. Only in Haryana. Nevertheless, 12 days should give us a sneak peak into what trends are likely to unfold when it spreads across...
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Happy Mobile Number Portability Day? – MNP Kicks Off In Haryana

by | posted: November 25, 2010
Finally! After delays, delays, delays, delays and delays followed by some more delays, it is here. Mobile Number Portability has been launched in Haryana today. By now, I’m sure you know the drill,...
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Mobile Number Portability Delayed – Yes Again! – to 25th November

by | posted: November 1, 2010
Honestly, this is a headline that a lot of us are getting quite sick of. But it has happened again. Just a few days back, we were given hope that Mobile Number Portability will be available to subscribers...
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Pan-India Mobile Number Portability by year end?

by | posted: October 27, 2010
It seems that Mobile number Portability (MNP) has become a part of the Great Indian Tamasha and the latest news from the block is a fitting example of it. In an event organized by BSNL, the telecom minister...
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Bailout Alert – Govt. May Reduce Failing Telcos’ Pain

by | posted: September 27, 2010
Normally, you would associate ‘bailout’ with the painful recession of 2008. This one is not so much about that. Over the past 12 – 18 months, news has consistently flooded us with launches of mobile...
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No More Delay With Mobile Number Portability – Block November 1st!

by | posted: September 20, 2010
Finally! Finally! and again Finally! Phew now that felt good So after multiple delays in announcing then postponing and then announcing and postponing and some more for Mobile Number Portability the...
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Curb On Bulk SMS, National Broadband Plan, MNP Coming Soon – TRAI

by | posted: September 9, 2010
India is a country on the move. The country is moving ahead slowly but surely towards a brighter future; a future where the customer is king and all his preferences are given more priority than it is...
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Bharti Airtel Ties-Up With ip.access For Picocells – Readying For MNP?

by | posted: September 6, 2010
A few days ago, Bharti Airtel took a big step towards customer satisfaction by stopping bulks SMS services. This was great news for customers of the telecom giants as more and more mobile users around...
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Mobile Number Portability Should Be Renamed Mobile Number Postponability Yet Again!

by | posted: July 1, 2010
The much awaited Mobile Number Portability (MNP) will be delayed for what will be the 4th time in a row from June 30 to October 31. WATBlog has in the past covered various advantages and the impact of...
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Mobile Number Portability Should Be Renamed Mobile Number Postponability!

by | posted: March 31, 2010
If you have read my earlier posts on Mobile Number Portability then you for sure know how eagerly I am looking forward to the same being launched in India across circles. Part of the reason is my mobile...
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TTSL To Pay Cellphone Subscribers For Network Errants

by | posted: March 4, 2010
Tata Teleservices continues to introduce industry breaking initiatives and this time it has taken customer care services to next level. Tata Teleservices has decided to compensate its CDMA cellphone subscribers...
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