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One of India’s leading mobile service provider Tata Docomo has tied up with mobile handset maker HTC Corporation to bring HTC’s latest Android based smartphone HTC Desire to India at a price tag of Rs 28,900/-

HTC Desire will be available from HTC Stores all over India from this week.

HTC Desire comes with 3.7-inch AMOLED display , 1-GHz Qualcomm Snapdragon processor, 576MB, 5 megapixel camera and all major smartphone features.

Additionally HTC Desire owners in India get an exclusive offer from Tata Docomo – Free 500mb of internet usage for 6 months (Only for Tata Docomo postpaid customers).

HTC Desire Features

• 3.7 inches (94mm) Touch-sensitive screen with pinch-to-zoom capability, 480 X 800 WVGA
• Android 2.1 (Éclair) with HTC Sense
• 5 megapixel color camera with Face detection, auto focus and geotagging
• 3G : Up to 7.2Mbps download and 2mbps upload speed
• GPRS, EDGE and Wi-Fi wireless LAN
• Bluetooth 2.1 with enhanced data rate, FTP, OPP
• Facebook Integration, Friend Stream and HTC Peep for tweeting
• Facebook, Flickr and Twitter Photo Sharing
• 512MB ROM, 576MB RAM, microSD support up to 32GB
• Digital Compass, proximity sensor, ambient light sensor and G Sensor
• 1400 mAh batter : up to 400 mins talk time and 340 hours standby time
• HTC Footprints, Internal GPS Antenna and Google Maps

HTC Desire Price in India : Rs 28,900/-

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Telecom Industry in India is witnessing dramatic changes as major service providers are launching attractive and unbelievable plans to increase their share in this world’s most competitive market. Here we compare cheapest prepaid plans (plans without any monthly commitments or additional boosters).

Reliance : Reliance’s Simply Reliance is a very attractive scheme which offers 3 packs.

Simply Reliance Pay per Second : Rs 61 recharge with 1 year validity – all local and STD calls at 1p/sec and all SMS at 50p.

Simply Reliance Pay Per Minute : Rs 51 recharge with lifetime validity – all local/STD calls at 50p/minute and all sms at 50p.

Simply Reliance Pay per Call : Rs 41 with life time validity – all local and std calls at Re 1/ 3min. Local SMS at Re 1 and National SMS at Rs 1.50

Apart from this Reliance offers attractive 1p/SMS packs.

Airtel : Airtel freedom pack offers one second billing with a one time recharge of Rs 22.

Local and STD rates at 1 paisa per second for Airtel numbers and 1.2 paisa per second (72p/minute) for other landline and mobile numbers.

Local SMS at 50p, national at Rs1.5 and International at Rs 3.

BSNL : In Bharat Sanchar Nigam Limited’s General option you have to pay 1paisa per second for all local and national numbers and 1.2p/second for other numbers.

Local SMS at 0.50, national at 0.60 and International at Rs 5.

Tata Docomo : All local and STD calls at 1p/sec. Local SMS at 60p, national at Rs 1.6 and international at Rs 5.00.

Vodaphone : In Vodaphone Ticket Plan you can move to one second billing with a yearly commitment of Rs 65. All local and national vodaphone numbers at 1p/sec and other numbers at 1.2p/sec

In Vodaphone Travel plan all vodaphone numbers at 50p/minute and other numbers at 60p/minute with an yearly recharge of Rs 64.

Local SMS at 1, National at 1.5 and International at Rs 5.

MTS : All local MTS numbers at 35p/minute and other mobiles at 70p/minute. All STD calls at Rs1.40 per minute. Local and national SMS at 50p and International SMS at Rs5.

Tata Indicom : Chutti 49 pack – all local calls at Re 1 and STD at 1.50. In Pay Per Call plan all local calls at Re 1 and STD at Rs 3 for 10 minutes and in Celebration plan all local and STD at 60 paisa/minute (Rs 99 initial recharge in both plans). In Pay per call plan local and national SMS at 50p and international at Rs 5.

Idea : As per the Nimidangal plan (first time recharge of Rs 37) all local calls at 40p/min and all STD calls at 50p/minute. local/national SMS at 50p and international at Rs 5.

In the Nodigal Plan all local and STD calls at 1paisa/second.

Uninor : Talklonger at 29/min – All local calls at 29 paisa/minute and STD at 49p/minute with a call setup charge of 39 paisa. Local SMS at 10p (promotional) and national at Rs 1.49.

Callmore at 29/min – same as talklonger except Rs 2 daily rental instead of call setup charge.

Now let us compare these plans. Suppose you make two calls of 15 minutes duration (local and STD) and another two calls of 30 seconds duration.

Summary

If you make lots of long duration calls then Reliance Pay Per Call and Tata Indicom Pay per Call are ideal for you. Even Idea and uninor will help you to save money in this class.

If you make many short calls (less than 1 minute) then ideal option is Reliance Pay Per Second or Tata Docomo or Idea (1p/sec plan).

Overall reliance is a clear winner with its superb Simply Reliance Offer which offers wide variety of options to suite all class of subscribers and additionally it offers 1p/sec SMS with SMS boosters. Uninor, Tata Indocom and Idea are also offer value for money in both local and STD calls.

* All rates mentioned above are Prepaid tariff rates for Chennai/Tamil Nadu circle (as on 9th Dec 2009). Most of the plans are available in all circles in India either in the same name or a different name. Please refer the respective site or contact the service provider for more info.

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Uninor, a joint venture between Indian real estate major Unitech and Norwegian telecom group Telenor launched its GSM operations in India.

Uninor launched GSM services in 7 telecom circles simultaneously – Kerala, Karnataka, Tamil Nadu, Andhra Pradesh, UP East, UP West and Bihar including Jharkhand.

Unitech is a leading player in Indian real estate market and Telenor is the 6th largest telecom player in the world with 17.2 crore subscribers in 12 countries.

Uninor announced a very attractive call rates which is going to start another tariff war in Indian telecom sector which is already witnessed dramatic price cuts in the recent months after Tata Docomo’s 1paisa/second scheme and Reliance Communication’s Simply Reliance Plan.

Uninor rates are as low as 29 paisa for local calls and 49 paisa for STD calls.

Uninor Tariff Plans

Talklonger at 29p/min : In this subscriber has to pay a call setup charge of 39 paisa. For people to make less number of calls and talk more.

Callmore at 29p/min : In this plan you have to pay Daily Rs 2 rental to keep the low calling rates. For people who make more calls and talk less.

All other rates are same for both schemes like

Local Calls : 29 paisa/minute

STD Calls : 49 paisa/minute

Local SMS at 10 paisa(promotional offer) and National SMS at Rs 1.49.

Starter Kit is available at Rs 49 with lifetime validity (till 24-Jan-2028) and a talk time of Rs 5.

At present Uninor does not offer per second billing as pulse rate is 60 seconds.

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On November 27th Reliance Communications, led by Anil Ambani announced 3 new hot SMS packages.

These new plans are  going to start another tariff war in the text message segment like Tata Docomo’s Pay per second scheme and 1paisa per second schemes started a tariff war in the mobile voice segment which forced  even major players to cut the tariff  drastically and move to pay per second schemes.

Rcom’s new SMS tariff plans are add-on plans comes as an add-on pack and applicable in both segment (CDMA and GSM) and available to both prepaid and postpaid customers.

Scheme 1 : Recharge with Rs 11 every month and send SMS at 1 paisa

Scheme 2 :Recharge with Rs 25 every month and avail 500 free SMS/day

Scheme 3 : One time recharge of Rs 14 and rental of Re 1 everyday to avail 500 free SMS/day

This is definitely going to create some ripples in the text segment as rates are too high (for some providers it is Re 1 or more per SMS)  when the actual cost to the operator  is a fraction of a paisa for sending an SMS.

On November 20th, Bharti Airtel Ltd slashed its roaming charges by around 60% for both incoming and outgoing.

As more and more players enter Indian telecom market customers are benefited as these companies come up with unprecedented offers to attract new customers as well as to keep existing customers.

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