mobile operators

The first cell phone connection that I took was a prepaid connection from Idea mobile (formerly bpl mobile) from the birla group. That was because most of my students(from IT field) were having idea connection, even though airtel was the most popular network at that time.

That connection was mainly for my father's usage when he had to go to the hospital for treatment for diabetic related problems.

Then after some time, my brother took a connection from airtel. He was just going through the various options and set up caller tunes. He just used it for 1 month and realised that it was a waste of money and then cancelled it off by calling the customer service centre.

The idea connection was put to a lot of use for std calls by me for calling my fiancee. There were some nice schemes like std call of 3 minutes for one rupee or so for 1 month etc.

When we travel to Tamil nadu (roaming) the idea connection usually shifts to aircel network. There are some parts of the highway, where there is no connectivity .

Then after some time my brother took a bsnl connection and a cell phone with the capacity to handle dual simcards. He would charge it with a special recharge which would give him a lot of free calls on the bsnl network.

I also took up a bsnl prepaid connection based on the pyari jodi plan which gives me free calls to my landline number. The network coverage also seems to be better than idea network while roaming.

I usually go for recharge with full talktime via the flexi route . Some ladies do not like this because they have to leave their cell phone numbers at the shop. Idea had a nice recharge coupon at Rs. 125/- which gives full talktime.

Recently I took up a virgin mobile connection which gave an offer of 25 ps per call(per minute) even for std calls. There seems to be some tieup with tata docomo.


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mobile cell phones vs landline

In the old days, the only telecom company in India was BSNL, the government controlled entity.
There was no mobile network. Only landlines were present. Getting a telephone connection was a long process. You applied for a connection and waited for something like months before you got a telephone alloted to you.

But now with the arrival of cell phone companies , getting a phone connection is a lot easier. You just go to a phone shop (or even some other general stores) with a passport size photo and copies of identification documents like voter id etc, and you can buy a sim card which is usually activated then itself on receipt of the identification documents by the shop keeper.

some of the networks in kerala are idea ( earlier bpl mobile or escotel ? ) , bsnl cellone, airtel, tata indicom

ideacellular.com

bsnl.co.in

airtel.in

tataindicom.com

There have been problems with call congestion on certain networks during peak usage hours. There are also complaints about billing on post paid services of some service providers. There are also some problems with unwanted promotional messages, advertisement calls etc.

In kerala mobile phones have become very common place. Even people earning very little money like casual labourers , auto drivers etc use mobile phones (usually cheap mobile handsets with black and white display) to keep in touch with their clientele.
Some college students carry around two or three mobile phones. Students seem to be searching for the latest and hottest mobile phones. Sometimes this kind of mobile phone usage seems to develop into something like an addiction. There was even an incident when some student committed suicide apparently because his parents enforced some ban on his cell phone usage.

There also have been safety concerns on the use of mobile phones by very young children.
Some governments have banned the use of cell phones in schools and some universities like anna university in tamilnadu have banned the use of camera phones in engineering colleges during class hours.

Using a mobilephone while driving is very dangerous since the reaction time may be slower.

Some of the qualities to look for in a mobile phone seem to be ruggedness ,durability, memory, camera quality in case of a phone with camera, texting ease, should fit easily in ones pocket etc.


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