Simply Reliance

The " Simply Reliance Plan" is working its way up in the telecom industry. With its non-puzzling call rates,people are showing an inclination towards it.

The 50 paise per minute has relieved consumers whose time is wasted just thinking about the ever increasing plans every month .Reliance has offered the scheme to both its GSM and CDMA users.




The consumers now need to pay just 50 paise for all outgoing,STD and roaming calls on any network. Moreover this scheme is available for all Reliance prepaid and postpaid users.Reliance network is spread throughout India covering 600,000 villages and 24,000 towns. It is the first ever plan in India to have call rates as easy as 50p/min for all calls at all networks for GSM and CDMA platforms.

The plan is available to both new and existing customers using prepaid services by purchasing a one time tariff voucher for Rs. 48 with life time validity.Postpaid users can get the new plan by paying Rs 99 as subscription fee.

The 50p/min call rates hold for:

* All local and STD calls
* Calls to any network
* to any platform whether GSM or CDMA
* All roaming calls whether incoming or outgoing
* Anytime during the day or night.
* All sms whether local or national
* no monthly charges for prepaid users.

Mr. Anil Dhirubhai Ambani,Chirman of the Reliance Communications said looking at the overwhelming response," “Reliance pioneered the mobile revolution making calls cheaper than a postcard in 2005. In another game changing move today, Reliance brings a billion Indians closer to each other, with one single rate for all local and STD calls, to any mobile or landline network, anytime, anywhere in India, without any conditions or restrictions. Once again, Reliance has set new standards, offering unbelievable and never-before savings to a billion Indians.”

BSNL Mahrashtra Goa customers elated

India’s renouned telecom service provider Bharat Sanchar Nigam Ltd (BSNL) had made its Mahrashtra Goa pre-paid customers elated with another exciting tariff plan by launching 5 new “MAHA MAGIC” plans. BSNL “Magic” tariff plans for its prepaid mobile customers with lower Local and STD calls on the basis of a daily rental, dubbed “Maha Magic plans”. BSNL launched a total of 5 “Maha Magic Plans” with different tariff structures.




“MAHA MAGIC 1″ – Local calls @ 50 p/min to BSNL network Under this scheme, daily Re.1 will be deducted from the customer’s balance & this will allow them to make local calls within the BSNL Network (Landline, WLL, Mobile) at a rate of 50 paisa/minute. All STD call will be charged at Re.1. To activate the plan SMS “ACT 1″ to 53733. “MAHA MAGIC 1.5″ – Local calls @ 20 p/min BSNL network Under this scheme, daily Rs. 1.50 will be deducted from the customer’s balance & would be allowed to make local BSNL network calls (Landline, WLL, Mobile) to any network at a rate of 20 paisa per minute. To activate the plan SMS “ACT 1.5″ to 53733.

“MAHA MAGIC 2″ – Local calls (All networks) within Maharashtra & Goa @ 49 p/min Under this scheme, daily Rs.2.00 will be deducted from the customer’s balance & would be allowed to make local calls to any network (Landline, WLL, Mobile) within the state at a rate of 49 paisa per minute. To activate the plan SMS “ACT 2″ to 53733.

“MAHA MAGIC 4″ – Local calls @ 1 p/min to BSNL network Under this scheme, daily Rs. 4 will be deducted from the customer’s balance & would be allowed to make local calls within BSNL Network (Landline, WLL, Mobile) at a rate of 1 paisa per minute. To activate the plan SMS “ACT 4″ to 53733.

“MAHA MAGIC 5″ – All Network local & STD calls at 50 p/min Under this scheme, daily Rs.5 will be deducted from the customer’s balance & would be allowed to make all local & STD calls to any network across India at a rate of 50 paisa per minute. To activate the plan SMS “ACT 5″ to 53733 All other call and SMS charges are as per normal Prepaid tariff plan. BSNL Maharashtra also reduces its life time pre-paid at Rs.54 with a talktime of Rs. 40.

BSNL revises many its plans

Some more tariff revisions have been announced for BSNL. The state-owned telecom operator has reduced rent of some of its post-paid mobile plans. The One India plan 299 has been merged with plan 225. Free Roaming plan 550 has been merged with plan 525. Subscribers of plan 299 and plan 550 will be migrated by default to plan 225 and plan 525 respectively. Tariff under plan 490 has been rationalized and fixed monthly charge has been reduced from Rs.490 to Rs.425.



Some new talk plans in place of existing ones for its post-paid customers have also been introduced.

BSNL has replaced some of its existing plans like Plan-299, Plan-490 and Plan-550 with three new plans, offering lower tariff and reduced call rates, BSNL said in a statement.It has also launched an unlimited night calling facility with its Plan-525 and Plan-999, while free GPRS would be made available for higher tariff options like Plan-725 and Plan-999.

The telecom major is also offering a rebate of two month’s fixed monthly charges under the annual payment option. Under SMS-Power Plan, messaging rates have been reduced by 75 per cent for local SMSs and by 50 per cent for national ones.

Reliance Mobile unique contest amidst ICC Trophy

Reliance Mobile, the ‘Global Partner’ for the ICC Champions Trophy South Africa 2009, today announced various consumer initiatives as part of its partnership for the tournament scheduled to begin next month.




These initiatives were announced during the Reliance Mobile Trophy Preview for the ICC Champions Trophy. This marked the beginning of Reliance Mobile’s Trophy Preview in India before the tournament commences in South Africa on September 22nd, 2009. The ICC Champions Trophy will be handed over to the winning team of the 2009 edition of the tournament.

The ICC Champions Trophy is even more exciting for cricket fans and
Reliance customers throughout India with this contest.

Commenting on Reliance Mobile’s association with ICC Champions Trophy, South Africa 2009, Akshay Kumar, Senior Executive Vice President, Reliance Communications said, “ We are initiating various
consumer-friendly promotions and initiatives for our customers and channel partners based on the ICC Champions Trophy, South Africa 2009.”




Leveraging its association with ICC to benefit customers, Reliance Mobile is planning to organize interactive contests on R-World as part of its ICC Champions Trophy South Africa 2009 initiative. The company plans to organize this contest across various platforms of R-World including CRBT, Voice Portal, SMS etc. Those wishing to participate in this unique contest will have the freedom to choose their platform as per their preference & ease of using a platform. The contest will be launched across both GSM and CDMA networks.

For instance, on Voice Portal, a subscriber will be able to dial a particular multimodal number, subscribe to the Cricket Score subscription services post which he will have to answer a skill- based question. Select winners of the contest could win a trip to South Africa.

Moreover, Reliance Mobile will go Live with all ICC Champions Trophy,South Africa 2009 matches through its R-World VAS platform. Reliance Mobile subscribers will be able to catch all the excitement of this tournament on their handsets. Reliance Mobile will also provide subscribers an option to have match scores and expert commentary on the matches as their caller-tune.

Effectively, it is in one location with two world-class venues at The Wanderers and Centurion. It is a short, sharp event with just the top eight-ranked ODI teams taking part in international competition. The event is all about prestige. It features the best players competing for a major ICC title with more prize money on offer than ever before with a total of US$4million at stake.

Airtel Special 5 Plan

This was surely coming from the countries largest mobile operator, Airtel. Ever since TATA Indicom was launched with all ‘first of its kind’ rates in India, other mobile operators should have been on their feet.




Airtel now announces ‘Special 5‘ offer where you can call any 5 Airtel numbers for incredible rates. This offer looks similar to the one which BSNL has for its customers. But it’s interesting to see Airtel jump into such offers, prior to which Airtel has seemingly high rates compared to other networks but was relying hugely on its Network quality.

Under this ‘Special 5′ offer you can not only call local Airtel numbers but also add any Airtel STD numbers. However, the charges for local and STD calls differ but are still far lower than any offer Airtel introduced ever so far.As the name may suggest that you can add up to 5 Airtel numbers in your ‘Special 5′ numbers list. Calls to local Airtel number in that list of 5 will be charged at 20 p/min and calls to STD numbers will be charged at 50 p/min.

This offer is all about giving you freedom to contact your friends and family. Previously in F & F offer, only local calls could be added but now you can even add STD numbers.And there will be a registration charges of Rs.5 per each number and a daily rental of Rs.1/each number (as per Airtel customer care) in majority of States in India like AP, WB, Assam, Bihar, North Eastern
States, UP, Punjab, Delhi, HP.

If you reside in Tamilnadu, you have even less rentals at only 20paise per number per day for local numbers and 50 paise per day per number for STD numbers. So in this case if you have 3 local number and 2 STD airtel numbers in your Special 5 Group, you need to pay a daily rental
of Rs.1.60.

All you have to do to activate this offer call 12141 and add your list
of ‘Special 5′ numbers.