RCom Introduces India's first user generated caller tune service

RCom users can activate the service by calling 56694400 or can avail it by logging into the operator's website.

Reliance Communications has introduced India's first user generated caller tune service that allows customers to record content via the 'Tune Maker' platform and then set it as their own caller tune. Subscribers can also post their creations on RCom's website for other subscribers' use.

RCom has partnered with Hyderabad based Altruist Technologies to create pan-India infrastructure for the new services.

According to Anil Pande, head, VAS, Reliance Communications, "UGC (user generated content) has seen exponential growth over the last few years. India being a multilingual country, voice is an important part of UGC."

Adding further, he said, "The service allows voice based content of users' choice to be shared and set as their caller tune. The technology support offered by Altruist enables to edit, link, and create content posted by customer, besides activating it as caller tune."

Mobile phone subscribers in India rises to 811.59 million

India’s mobile phone subscribers base has touched 811.59 million in March with the addition of 20.21 million connections, official data shows.

According to the Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (TRAI), the wireless user base grew 2.55 percent, from 791.38 million in February.

While the share of urban subscribers declined to 66.30 percent from 66.36 percent, the share of rural subscribers increased from 33.64 percent to 33.70 percent, the report said Friday.

With this, the total number of telephone subscriber base touched 846.32 million, registering a growth of 2.43 percent.

Overall teledensity in India reached 70.89.

However, according to the report, of the total 811.59 million wireless subscribers in March, only 573.97 million subscribers were active subscribers on the date of peak visitor location register (VLR).

VLR is a temporary database of the subscribers who have roamed into the particular area, which it serves. Each base station in the network is served by exactly one VLR, hence a subscriber cannot be present in more than one VLR at a time.

The growth in this category was led by Vodafone, which added 3.65 million users to take its subscriber base to 134.57 million users.

Reliance Communications followed next with an addition of 3.54 million new subscribers, taking its subscriber base to 135.72 million.

Telecom giant Bharti airtel added 3.2 million subscribers to take its total number of customers to 162.2 million.

Idea Cellular added 2.7 million subscribers, increasing its subscribers count to 89.5 million while Uninor added 1.21 million subscribers to have 22.79 million subscribers.

According to the data, the broadband subscriber base grew 3.51 percent from 11.47 million in February to 11.87 million in March 2011. However, the wireline segment declined marginally from 34.87 million in February to 34.73 million at the end of March. 

BSNL Yuva Rajasthan Education Plan

 

BSNL has launched a prepaid scheme in the name of "Yuva Rajasthan Education plan" which is focused towards promotion of education and targeted towards students and faculties of all the educational institutions. The plan will facilitate dissemination of IT enabled content and among students, research scholars and faculties of educational institutions of all India at an affordable price. It shall further encourage interaction amongst students and faculties enabling overall environment of education in Rajasthan boosting image of BSNL as a socially responsible corporate. The tariff plan is designed with special emphasis for data and SMS which are of specific interest for students and education community.
This plan shall make 3G service affordable and within reach of student community which otherwise was thought of elite class service till recently. The plan shall be available at an expenditure of Rs. 102 per month only with 300 SMS along with a talk value of Rs. 50 and 50 MB data download free. Any student or faculties of school, academic colleges or professional colleges and universities / Board can participate /subscribe this plan. Multilayer close user groups (College level / University or Board level / All University / Board level of Home State ) have been envisaged in this plan with differential charging in each level of the group and the members of plan shall be able to make video calls in layered group at cheap and differential charging. This prepaid plan has free voice calls within College / institute and reduced voice call rate 10 paisa per minute within University and 30 paisa per minute to the students/faculty of any university / Boards opting for this plan in Home state. Also the video call rate is very attractive @ 10 paisa per minute within college / institute, @30 paisa per minute within University / Board and @70 paisa per minute for all other calls. The other important feature of this plan is unlimited data down load from the websites of participating educational institutions / Universities.