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TRAI releases Consumers’ Handbook on Telecommunications

by varma May 19, 2012
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Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (TRAI) has released a consumers’ handbook on Telecommunications for consumers and the consumer organizations to make them aware of various regulatory measures taken by TRAI, so that consumers can effectively safeguard their rights and privileges. The Handbook is written in a simple consumer friendly language for easy understanding by all. “Protecting the interest of consumers of telecommunication services is one of the primary tasks of the Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (TRAI). TRAI has, from time to time, issued several Regulations, Direction and Orders on consumer protection, complaint redressal system, quality of service, metering and

Airtel Brings in Affordable 3G Tariffs for Mobile Customers

by varma May 18, 2012
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Bharti Airtel, India’s leading telecom provider announced the launch of all new range of affordable, cheap and easy to understand tariff plans for its 3G services, across pan India customer base. With the new 3G tariff plans, on Rs 10 recharge prepaid customers will get 30 MB data usage for 1 day and the highest plan costing Rs 1500 which provides 10GB of data usage for 30days. Airtel has also introduced Smartbytes additional data usage packs for its postpaid Airtel 3G mobile customers, thus becoming the first in the market to offer customers with the choice of subscribing to incremental

Anonymous Takes Down Supreme Court, AICC & DOT Websites in Response to Website Block

by varma May 17, 2012
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According to various sources and tweets, Anonymous India hacker group, has taken down Supreme Court website (supremecourtofindia.nic.in), AICC – official Indian congress website (aicc.org.in) and DOT (dot.gov.in) websites on regards of  Internet censorship. As we are writing this all the websites seems to be back online, without any noticeable issues. We think this hacking attempt on Indian Govt sites are done in response to latest DOT and Court order to block Torrent based websites in India in the ISP level. Hacking down Supreme court website seems to be getting negative impact on the hackers group, as Honble Supreme court seems

BSNL Revise 2G and 3G Data Usage Charges For Postpaid Mobile Customers

by varma May 16, 2012
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To make the mobile internet usage in the country more affordable, Govt owned telecom operator Bharat Sanchar Nigam Limited (BSNL), has reduced its 2G and 3G data usage charges for its postpaid mobile customers pan India. BSNL has slashed the data charges for postpaid customers upto 75%, previously the 2G and 3G data charges where 4 paisa/10 KB which is now reduced to a more affordable low rate of 1paisa/10 KB. Dy. General Manager(T&C) in a circular to CGMs of all Telecom Circles/ Telephone Districts said “Now, it has been decided by the Competent Authority to revise the data usage