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Speedtest.Net Results with MTS India EVDO

2012-02-10T07:58:00.002+05:30

On my last post I explained why some people are getting slow speed on EVDO. Currently I am using MTS EVDO and see the speedtest.net results, tested with different servers across the world.

It also says why I am so supportive with MTS India & its data services. I am lucky that MTS offers internet packs for voice customers in Kolkata & WB.

Some people simply are not getting high speed with MTS as they are not properly informed regarding
the coverage, FUP and the difference between 1X and EVDO.

Why Some EVDO Users Having Pathetic Experience?

2012-02-08T12:20:00.000+05:30

Being a telecom enthusiast I visit different forums and come across a fact that most tata photon+, reliance netconnect+, mts mblaze and bsnl evdo customers had a bad experience! Even when I bought MTS MBlaze and made a review on telecomtalk.info I found many comments such as it is pathetic and even some people told that it is a paid review! :O

Lucky that, I did not have any bad experience with EVDO services till date as I used MTS & Reliance.
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Today I find that Qualcomm website underwent some makeover and during browsing over the pages I find this figure over there.

The image explains why some people experience pathetic speeds. Earlier I had feeling that many people are not aware of the FUP and after the initial bursts on EVDO, their usage shifts to 1X - 153kbps.

But now this image says while a user goes to the boundary of an end-BTS, his speed goes to 400kbps or less, depending upon network congestion - in reality his speed may goes down to 200kbps or around which is near to 20-25kBps download speed.

In India EVDO based HSD services are very popular and serves more people than 3G does. Next time if you buy a EVDO based HSD services you must have a demo at the place where you will use it most of the time.

I Am Bored With Socializing Over Internet

2012-02-05T13:37:00.000+05:30

Recently I came across an article on The Telegraph UK - saying teens and young people are getting bored with social networking. I feel it is true for me also. I am in the age group of 19-25 years and I am professionally a medical student and a telecom writer. For both of my professional interest I feel best places to gain knowledge is not facebook, rather I experience that traditional forums are working best for me.

At a point I feel email is the best option to be connected with friends and sometimes chat on GMail! works good for me. Most importantly I can able
to search the old messages and chats on GMail. Twitter is another way to be in touch with my friends of telecomtalk.info. But still I had to be on facebook as most of my school friends, relatives and some ;) friends are there and posted status, uploads pic and poke me regarding many stuffs. I often do not find anything interesting about facebook.

Orkut is recently turned dead for me, but I can not delete it now. I insist to say 'recently died' because I was a great follower of BSNL Broadband & EVDO ** community over Orkut. There was another awesome community of Opera Browser which was inactive from almost 2 years, and I was an active member of Bengali Slangs (actual community & rebel community) which migrated to facebook. There was another very good community called Full Movie Downloads ** where members posted all new releases on bittorrent.

Interestingly The Telegraph India published a story today - teenagers are slowly migrating to twitter. Well the story explains that on facebook anyone be it their parents, parents' friends, teachers and relatives are turning into their friend list and all it takes invasion of their privacy. In India teenagers' parents are in most of the cases, are not that tech savvy so problem does not exist.

** These are active community still serving its members!

ISP List of India

2012-01-29T11:44:00.001+05:30

This is my humble effort to list Indian internet service providers with their respective websites and coverage area. I am doing this because this list excludes those companies having license and not operational.

Regarding coverage area, I can not enlist the exact locations covered by the ISP if it cover many states, but for city based ISPs I will mention the city names.

BSNL - Pan India
MTNL - Delhi & Mumbai
Reliance Wireline Broadband - Pan India
Tata Indicom Broadband - Pan India
Airtel Broadband - Pan India
Beam Broadband - Hyderabad (AP)
Sify Broadband - Pan India
Wi5 Broadband - AP, Guj, Har, Pun, Puduchery, Raj, TN, Karnataka
SPiDiGo - Ahmedabad (Guj)
Tikona Broadband - Pan India
ACT Broadband - Bangalore
RailWire - Bangalore
Triple Play Broadband - Gurgaon
SITI Broadband
Vasai Cable Broadband
Rajan Net - Mumbai
Neon Broadband
You Broadband - Ahmedabad, Bangalore, Chennai, Gurgaon, Hyderabad, Mumbai, Navi Mumbai, Pune, Surat, Thane, Vadodara, Vishakapatnam
Hathw@y
Spectra Net
O-zone - Wifi Only
DEN Networks - Delhi and Kanpur
Five Network - Mumbai
Asianet Dataline - Kerala
Nivyah - Guj, MH, Punjab, Daman
InfoTel Communication - TN
IOL Netcom - Mumbai and Kolkata
Ortel Communication - Orissa, Kolkata
Alliance Broadband - Kolkata
1and1 Broadband - Thane
Pace-Net
Bangalore Broadband Network Pvt Ltd (BBNL)
Skytel Broadband - Hyderabad

For Kolkata users, please visit - Kolkata ISP List

Note that this list is not complete, and will be updated. I wish my readers inform me about local operators. So when you inform by comments please include the coverage city/state and website.

Aparajita Tumi - Review

2012-01-21T23:18:00.001+05:30

Ever since I came to know about Aparajita Tumi (The Unvanquished) I get excited very much.

The reasons are pretty obvious - it is Aniruddha Roy Chowdhury's 3rd film after Antaheen. I liked Antaheen - it was a very smart, yet very much Kolkata feel; the treatment with the characters were so good. Secondly Aparajita Tumi is based on a novel by Sunil Gangopadhyay – 'Dui Nari Hate Tarabari'.

Third reason is the cast of the film; Aparajita Tumi is starring by Prosenjit Chatterjee, Padmapriya Janakiraman, Kamalinee Mukherjee, Chandan Roy Sanyal, Indraneil Sengupta, Tanusree Shankar, Kalyan Ray and guest appearance by Soumitra Chatterjee. In recent time Prosenjit is doing justice to his acting abilities, and I am a fan of Chandan Roy Sanyal since Kaminay. And the music and intriguing trailer made me high on expections.

But expectations fall from the high. This is probably Aniruddha's most weak film among his three films. It is not up to the mark.

No doubt he is a genius to deal with the complicated relationships on the reel, as we have seen in his first two films. The characters in Aparajita Tumi may be left with some space of developments. You may find the mild similarity with Kabhi Alvida Na Kahena but Aparajita Tumi is much mature and better handled. At the end I feel there is some sparks are missing in the film.

Well the film is itself not so bad, every actor did their parts very well. Prosenjit as usual is great. Padmapriya as Kuhu is mis-identified by Mahi Gill by me; there are strong resemblance between them.

I am not going to tell the story of the film, it is already there on the official site of the film. Read the synopsis here.

For the music by Shantanu Moitra, and the cinematography by Ranjan Palit - specially the aerial shots and other shots are done with Hollywood type maturity. With the ease of beautifully shot the film turns into a poetry. A bit slow but the film gives the glimpse of NRI Bangalis including our Kolkata origins and Dhaka origins.

Facebook page - http://www.facebook.com/AparajitaTumi

PS: some dialogues are excellent to follow!

মদ খাওয়া বউকে নিয়ে গাড়ি চালিয়ে বাড়ি ফিরবো এতো আমার স্বপ্ন ।

শূন্যস্থান is a part of life.

Life কে নিয়ে মস্করা করি আমি আর করতো William Shakespeare.

>>>This is newly released film, do not ask for Aparajita Tumi [2012]- DVD Rip in comments!<<<

Support to Stop SOPA/PIPA

2012-01-18T09:30:00.006+05:30

Congrats India for Completing One Year Without Polio

2012-01-15T09:33:00.000+05:30

In the midst of huge political unrest (Lokpal & corruption) and Govt's decision to control social networking sites an advance was made in India.

You should not miss this milestone achieved by India - A complete year without new Polio cases!

It is great news to share, also being a medical professional. Well there are still some samples to be examined, if these goes negative WHO will declare India, once noted as world's epicentre of polio, has stopped indigenous transmission of wild poliovirus.

Currently there are 3 major countries - Afghanistan, Nigeria and Pakistan contributes most of the new polio cases.

Read more on Times of India, Asian Correspondent, NDTV.

My P2P Connections

2012-01-08T22:00:00.001+05:30

World of movies opened wide to me, when I got in touch with uTorrents! Torrent does not mean piracy all the time and for the people of this 3rd world countries like us torrent is a boon to taste the world cinema.

This is my favourite list of torrent sites and other sites which serves movies, music & other stuffs, in short these are my most browsed p2p connections.

Desi p2p sites: [private tracker = you must maintain the RATIO]
BWT
Ex-Desi [Den of DDR]
DesiTorrents - I recently jointed there, but BWT is best!

TamilTorrents are also there, but often these torrents are
available on public tracker too. Also I download less these south Indian stuffs, mostly collected from my friend. For south Indian releases on TPB - check NRSADRI

Other p2p sites like DesiDhamal, DesiBBRG & others have no future, also zero forum activity, mostly porn postings and nothing new to be offered by them.

Top Uploaders on public tracker - SaM (1337x), DDR (ExtraTorrent), xRG

Special Mention: BT aka BanglaTorrents. It is a great source of Bengali stuffs, including movies, audio, ebooks.
TPB Uploader - Robin5555 but after initial enthusiasm he stopped uploading new stuffs for some days.

Foreign stuffs are easily available via Torrentz, Btjunkie. You never need a private tracker for this.

700 XVID AVI - FXG, NOiR
600 MB or more MKV - YIFY

With the rise of MKV format, rippers can provide 720p hi-res video at 500MB also, so if you do not watch movies on DVD player, go for MKV ones. When you start HD watching, you will never step down to basic 640 x 480 AVI. In that way the days of aXXo or FXG are ended, already FXG stopped uploading new movies on his TPB or 1337X account. NOiR continues the old flame of 700 MB Xvid films, while YiFY is seemed to be a new aXXo with his as small as 600 MB 720p rips.

Via file hosting sites: I usually avoid them due to disconnection nature of my DSL broadband and wireless 3G/EVDO broadband.

BD aka Bengali Download - a honest effort to bring bengali stuffs online, they are also trying torrent way with opentorrents. Only thing I do not like that they created a VIP zone, which requires active forum life or payment. I believe when you are creating stuffs to share, there should not be any restriction. And no one is urging you to share stuffs, so do not expect anything from them. People will greet you once they are happy with your stuffs.
Mediafirefimly - includes hindi/south Indian/hollywood stuffs in small size. 400MB mkv rips

I generally download audio(music album, singles) over direct download. Mp3hungama has a wide collection. Songs.pk is also good, but I do not like their naming and tagging system. Mp3yug.com is my old choice, though the site is down now. DjMaza.com is my top destination for bollywood music, while loveukolkata.net ; musicjagat.com, musicjalsha.com is for bengali audio. In BD there is also vast collection of bengali audio.

For bengali ebook, there was a site boirboi.blogspot.com (then boirboi.net and later pathagar.net, now granthagar.co.cc). Currently the site turns into a paid avatar and delinked all old users. There is a rise of another site: natunpathagar.blogspot.com Amarboi.com is another great site to grab bengali ebooks. Old bengali ebook fav doridro.com has almost been finished with no new stuffs.

Happy New Year 2012

2012-01-01T02:18:00.003+05:30

This image was captured at Dhobi Ghat, Barrackpore.

# অদ্ভুত প্রেম পত্র #

2011-12-29T22:26:00.000+05:30

Recently ফেসবুক এর newsfeed একটা দারুণ '# অদ্ভুত প্রেম পত্র #' পড়লাম এক fb বন্ধুর পোস্টে**। Share না করে পারলাম না!

ক্লাস ৬ এর মেয়ে লিখেছে ক্লাস ৮ এর ছেলেকে :

বরাবর
আল-আমিন
গোল্লার মোড় , জনতা হাউজিং

জনাব ,
আমি তোমাকে ভালবাসি !
আমি চাই তুমিও আমাকে ভালবাসবে না হলে তুমি যে লুকিয়ে বিড়ি টান তা তোমার আম্মুকে আমি বলে দেব !
আর তুমি কারেন্ট চলে গেলে খেলতে আস না কেন ?
তুমি না আসলে আমার খেলতে ভাললাগে না !
আর তুমি বস্তির ছেলেদের সাথে মার্বেল খেল কেন ?
আর যেন খেলতে না দেখি !
তুমি আমাকে অনেক ভালবাসবা , আমায় মাঝে মাঝে এটা ওটা কিনেদিবা !
আর মাসুম এর মতো হাত কাটবা আর সেখানে আমার নাম লিখবা , আমি যখন স্কুলে যাব আমার জন্য দাড়িয়ে থাকবা !
আমার খুব ফুসকা খাইতে ভাল লাগে তুমি আমায় খাওয়াবা ! আর আমি যে তোমায় ভালবাসি এই কথাটা কাওকে বলবা না বলবা যেতুমি আমায় অনেক ভালবাসো তবে আমি তোমায় পাত্তা দিই না !
আমি যা বলছি তা করবা না হলে কিন্তু তুমি যে বিড়ি টান তা কিন্তু আমি তোমার আম্মুকে বলে দেব !!

ইতি তোমার স্নেহের তানিয়া :P

**privacy এর কারণে বন্ধুটির নাম দিলাম শুধু - Amit Das
ফেসবুক এ এই রকম বহু জিনিস চোখে পড়ে কিন্তু বেশির ভাগ পোস্টই পরে আর খুঁজে পাওয়া যায় না।

The Dark Knight Rises - Hi-Res Pic

2011-12-27T19:08:00.001+05:30

The Man behind the Bat &
The batman :)

Photo Credit: superherohype.com

Flipkart is NOT Cheap, Others Offer Cheaper than it

2011-12-13T01:47:00.003+05:30

Flipkart is not that cheap!

When I came to know about Letsbuy.com and its coupons, I find Letsbuy is way cheaper than Flipkart. Later I also find that electronics are cheaper on Letsbuy, even if the product is at same price, Letsbuy is offering some value-for-money gifts (like Nikon P500 gets 16GB memory card on Letsbuy).

But still for books I thought Flipkart gives me ultimate deal. As COD is withdrawn from many cities by Flipkart, it has now no speciality for me.

Worst part is other online sellers are selling books at lower price than Flipkart. I recently mailed to my friends regarding the high pricing by Flipkart with an example of Desperate Dubai - Flipkart @Rs 224, Tradus.in @Rs 212, and Infibeam.com @ Rs 179.

Just now I opened flipkart and choose a random book - Ohh Yes, I Am Single..! ..And So Is My Girlfriend! (Paperback) by Durjoy Datta, Neeti Rustagi

Flipkart - Rs 65

Tradus.in - Rs 62
Indiaplaza.in - Rs 60
Infibeam.com - Rs 50

I think no need of more examples. Flipkart may be offering some books at best competitive price than others. So conclusion is always browse other sites along with Flipkart and choose the cheapest option. I had buy with all the 4 sites and no bad experience till date. It seems Infibeam is rising (recently they tied up with ABP group to sell all Ananda Publishers' Bengali book).

For electronics Letsbuy is awesome, but do not forget to check Timtara.com and Koovs.com along with the above mentioned sites.

Top Sites for Online Shopping

Flipkart, Letsbuy, Infibeam, Indiaplaza, Timtara, Tradus, Adexmart
Koovs, Snapdeal,

Special mention is Adexmart - it offers awesome prices on e-stuffs!

Reliance Infotel - My Thoughts

2011-12-12T14:39:00.000+05:30

Reliance Industries owned Infotel Broadband is going to roll out 4th Generation services on LTE platform and plans to offer data as low as Rs 10/GB, as reported by Economics Times. The report also tells that RIL will also bundle the data with multiple devices. Entry level tablets will be major device for Infotel's LTE offerings and it may cost as low as Rs 3500/ ~$70 (Just remember Aakash - the $35 tablet).

But this report has nothing new, all these stuffs are already said on ET. RIL is keeping all of its BWA plans under hood and no one can have it. Even their employees are also very secretive regarding BWA launch. Interestingly this latest 2-page report by ET creates a storm among telecom portals - Medianama & goBroadband makes a follow up story.

MoneyControl published a report on October 3, 2011 saying it can be Operation Vijay for Reliance as Mukesh Ambani re-enters telecom space. But this story also does not have the substance to make us cheerful. All stories on media are based on rumor or market speculation.

But only story that caught my brain is by Forbes India, says Reliance Juggernaut On The Move. Again! The story depicts the entry of RIL in telecom space as battle of Titans - 'The first time Mukesh Ambani disrupted Indian telecom, Sunil Mittal survived, even emerged stronger. Can he pull it off a second time?'

Anyway shifting the focus of the story to Infotel's offering of 4G data at Rs 10 per GiB. goBroadband man Chetan explains that this is not impossible and Infotel can really offer 4G data at Rs10/GB.

Reliance Infotel will hit current broadband players (wired and wireless)

Infotel LTE will not only hit current 3G and EVDO players but also hit wired players badly. With 1Mbps plans with 25GB FUP it can easily score better than BSNL Broadband. Only way out is to deploy Fiber optics (Refer to Beam's Fiber plans). Cable players will see the same fate of BSNL.
Currently for data EVDO players are widely accepted (Though I find many people complaining against Reliance/Tata/MTS/BSNL's EVDO). Smaller wireless players using MIMO like Tikona and many very local players will be in big trouble for sure.

With price point Reliance will try to grab many users and not only that with exchange offer with old devices (ADSL modem, EVDO/3G dongles) they can kill others' business too.

Infotel Will Focus in Urband Areas

With 2300 Mhz spectrum, I do not think he can go beyond urban and semi-urban area. As no deal has been finalised with vendors or the deals are not in public I can not think more on this. But if Govt allows Reliance to enter into auction of 700 MHz BWA spectrum, Infotel will enter into rural areas.

Expected Tariffs & Devices

It is expected Infotel will have all kind of arsenals to win the people's heart along with price war. Tablets, dongles, even desktop and laptops may be bundled. I am expecting multi-mode dongles (LTE, HSPA, EVDO, 1X, EDGE/GPRS).
Tariffs is hard to predict, but Rs 10/GB is certainly not on lower tier plans.

But I think about current 2G(EDGE/GPRS/1X) and 3G (HSPA/EVDO) players - what can they do if Reliance Infotel shatters a tariff war on them? Unlimited 2G at Rs 50 and 3G data tariffs lowered down atleast 200% ? Only time can tell that.

Voice over LTE (VoLTE) is Happening or not

With no proper policy of VoIP I do not think VoLTE is happening soon. Also VoLTE is still in testing phase. Infotel may tie up with RCom to offer voice services or buy out a 2G player. Potential prey is Videocon.

Update: Business-Standard comes up with an update, that RIL is planning to tie up with cable operators who have extensive fiber network across the country. Following order to digitalise the cable TV sector, cable operators & MSO (multi system operators) has put fiber of more than 1 lakh Km over the country. The report also says the launch is delayed and expected happening in Mid 2012.

My Take: Someone willing to launch India's fastest broadband thought to be smart keeping aside the cable operators, and at the end he turns out to be a big zero. However the fact is RIL with tie up with MSO & cable operators may go in advanced rural areas very easily. It also says that RIL does not depend upon one backbone player, as I predicted.

Update 2: The Hindu Business Line reports Broadband players may get additional microwave spectrum for backhaul.

Update 3: Voice&Data explains the delay of LTE roll out, read more.

Timeline of Infotel Broadband

Indian Govt conducted BWA Spectrum Auction in June, 2010 & Infotel Broadband, promoted by Nahata was the only pan India BWA spectrum winner among 11 participants. Reliance WiMax who also participated in the auction, left in the midway. Infotel owns the 20 MHz spectrum in 2.3 GHz band in all 22 circles of the country.

Infotel Gets Pan India BWA spectrum - June 11, 2010

RIL buys out Infotel - June 11, 2010

RIL Gears Up for BWA Launch - April 19, 2011

RIL To Enter Security Business, Joins with Siemens - Sep 19,2011

RIL and RCom Shakes Hands for 4G Roll out - Nov 3, 2011

RIL Buys Stakes in e-Edu farm - Nov 8, 2011

RIL has pact with Disney UTV for contents on 4G platform.

Mukesh Ambani & Indian Telecom

If you look into history, Mukesh Ambani was the pioneer of CDMA technology in India with his Reliance Infocomm. Reliance India Mobile with its best-value-for-money offer (dubbed as Monsoon Hungama) reached the hands of thousands of Indian with the tagline- ‘Kar Lo Duniya Mutthi Mein’.

In 2006 the Ambani brothers split, and Reliance group is divided between Mukesh and Anil Ambani. Anil Ambani owns the telecom asset and renamed it as Reliance Communications.

In May 2010 the Ambani brothers entered into an “environment of harmony” agreement that virtually allowed their groups to enter any business they desired, ending a previous non-compete agreement. This allows Mukesh’s Reliance Industries to enter into Telecom Space.

Google+ Comes With Photo Importer from Orkut

2011-12-10T22:52:00.000+05:30

I am not a regular Google+ users, mostly because I get info from twitter stream and keep in touch with friends & relatives who are mostly on facebook.

Today I uploaded some photo for Google Photography Contest and find this option to import photos from Orkut to Google+ - You can directly visit this page: http://www.orkut.co.in/AlbumsExport

It is a nice feature but it also tells the fact in coming days (may be in 2013 or 2014) Orkut may vanish from web world.

µTorrent+ - Paid Version of uTorrent

2011-12-09T21:56:00.002+05:30

µTorrent plus
This is the latest offering from BitTorrent, and yes it is paid. Thankfully our all time favourite lightweight bittorrent client - uTorrent will always be free of cost.

We must recall the fact that BitTorrent bought uTorrent in 2006. Following this the basic uTorrent installer size increases with new updates. BitTorrent client also started using uTorrent core and significantly reduced the installer size. And there are some unnecessary features are also added with uTorrent, which I personally do not like. To me uTorrent is the simplest application I have ever met on Windows platform.

For Indians, uTorrent is a boon to have the all foreign media stuffs easily. Now desi stuffs are also widely available over torrents. Though some may stump these as piracy, being in a 3rd World Country we love to download!

This plus version includes:

Integrated BitDefender-based antivirus will scan your downloads for threats.

An integrated HD media player displays videos in their full high-definition glory.
If the file you’ve found isn’t in a convenient format, then uTorrent Plus will quickly transcode it to something else. Initial support for the MPEG-4, H.264, Theora, and VP8 video codecs, and MP3, AAC and AC-3 audio codecs should make it easy to convert the file to something Apple, Android or just generally mobile device-friendly.
And if you’re away from home then you’ll be able to use the uTorrent Remote Web service to remotely access and download any file from your home torrent library (once you’ve set the feature up, anyway).

More details of uTorrent plus.

Videocon GSM Mobile Services in Kolkata

2011-11-29T18:41:00.000+05:30

So Videocon GSM services are now in Kolkata. Their network is live for months over my area [405 833]. There is no news comes as official that Videocon enters in Kolkata. Though as per COAI data they are already West Bengal and have some subscribers, just like Loop has some customers in Kolkata. I am still not sure that it is a soft launch and official launch is coming in a month.

Even the retailers are not sure about the tariff or official launch. They informed me that Videocon is still searching for a distribution channel before gearing up with its GSM launch.

The new Videocon SIM is available for Rs 10 in selected stores. It includes 350 minutes of local talktime. No details of other specs are known!

BSNL Mobile CDMA is Already in Town

2011-11-28T02:05:00.003+05:30

If you check Telecomtalk's mobile codes page, you will find BSNL Mobile CDMA. The fact is BSNL was offering voice over CDMA via Fixed Wireless Phone (FWP)/Wireless Landline (WLL) with 8 digit no. BSNL has started its CDMA Mobile services in circles silently.

In Kolkata BSNL is offering Mobile services on CDMA for some time. But almost zero advertisement (except from the ones in BSNL Exchanges) makes people not aware of it.

New BSNL prepaid CDMA Mobile connection comes at just Rs 20. The RUIM comes with preloaded Rs 20 talktime in main account and 30 days validity and grace period of 15 days after the 30 days. 1X data services is also pre-activated on the mobile no.

Balance can be checked by dialing 123. The PIN of the RUIM will also be SMSed when you put it on a device (mobile/modem).

Frequently Asked Questions:

1. Is the RUIM of OMH technology?

I am not sure about it. Because when the RUIM is put on my OMH handset Samsung F219 there was no message during booting about upgrading the RUIM, which is generally showed up with non-OMH RUIM. But the BSNL-BREW and UIM-Toolkit both are disabled, and shows the message of upgrading RUIM to obtain data services when I clicked on BSNL-BREW. One explanation from my side: BSNL launched CDMA mobile services but did not develop BREW platform for its CDMA mobile customers.

2. What does it cost? What is the tariff of BSNL CDMA?

BSNL Prepaid CDMA RUIM comes at Rs 20. It includes Rs 20 talktime in main balance and validity of 30 days, with grace period of 15 days. To get 6 months validity you have to recharge Rs 110, and for 1 year validity Rs 221 is to be recharged.

BSNL CDMA to other local 90p/min
BSNL CDMA to SMS 60p/min
Data charge 5p/100kB [on 1X].

BSNL does activate data on CDMA RUIM, but only with 1X. They told me that EVDO is only activated on voice-disabled RUIMs to be used on data card.

Reliance EVDO - It is Cool & Fast

2011-11-24T13:38:00.003+05:30

So I started digging out EVDO/CDMA operators in my town. And see what I got with Reliance EVDO.
I was downloading stuffs via IDM and see the screenshot!

It is NetWorx graph, which is better than single IDM screenshot. Max speed was 346kBps and most of the time speed was more than 200KBps! Reliance CDMA truly rocks! :)

Well, last time I used Reliance Netconnect+ dongle and speed was merely 32kBps around, max I got 40kBps. But now Reliance truly is cool and fast!
Other operators like Tata and MTS is on the way to test! Bingo!

Update:
As during night hours, the network gets faster but invites frequent disconnection issues, bad for non-resumeable downloads. Try to download via torrents, as it will not give any issue.

Today (28 November, 2011) I am using Reliance EVDO again at night and it is MIXED response. Speed is not that higher. Avg Speed 80-100kBps! But today no disconnection issue! Later speed was increased to 150+ kBps on uTorrent. This time I made a speedtest.net test! See the result!

A long period of downloading & browsing gives me this graph by NetWorx:

Kolkata Mobile Operators [Updated 21 Nov, 2011]

2011-11-21T13:26:00.000+05:30

This is my final list of 2G & 3G mobile operators commercially available in Kolkata metro telecom district. I arranged them under main mother company and CDMA/GSM brand wise. I also added Videocon and Loop, but till date their commercial services are not available, though their networks are very much alive over Kolkata for more than 3 months.

I added colors to the table to understand the 3G operators and who are offering 3G via intra-circle roaming agreements. EVDO offering by CDMA players are also added in the chart.

Note that currently there are 2 operators can offer 4G services in Kolkata - Airtel and Infotel (Reliance Industries).

Company	Mobile Brands under GSM wing	Mobile Brands under CDMA wing

Vodafone Essar	Vodafone
Bharti	Airtel
Reliance Communications	Reliance GSM (earlier Reliance Smart)	Reliance CDMA
Tata Teleservices	Tata Docomo Virgin Mobile GSM T24	Tata Docomo CDMA (Earlier Tata Indicom) Virgin Mobile CDMA*
BSNL	BSNL Mobile	BSNL CDMA
Idea Cellular	Idea
Unitech Wireless	Uninor
Sistema Shyam Teleservices		MTS India
Aircel	Aircel
Videocon
Loop Mobile

	Red/Blue = 3G operators Brown = offers 3G using Blue operator’s spectrum	* discontinued [details] Purple = offers EVDO too.

Simply MTS Can Not Leave Voice Market

2011-11-16T12:20:00.001+05:30

Recently I posted a story on Telecomtalk.info with a title of MTS Plans to Shut Down Voice Services, Our Take, as it was hinted by Cheenu Seshadri, Chief Operating Officer-South & West Region at MTS in an interview with Light Reading.

Last year he also had another interview with the Hindu, where he expressed his love for data, as he quotes: 'Our strategy is data, data and data'.

Whoops! we know that data is the future, but right now you can not ignore voice. Though I explained on the post why, I am making it here simple and point wise to better understanding.

1. Even 4G player Reliance Infotel is looking for voice partners, so leaving voice can be suicidal. Even in rural areas there are hugh scope of market tapping, with CDMA 800 MHz spectrum MTS can reach the rural masses with cheapest handsets and special rural plans.

2. Data services from MTS (MBlaze) is still costly, so they can not have more users like they have on voice segment.

3. With less subscribers they can not have more spectrum. Currently they have only 2.5 MHz spectrum. With more subscribers they can have upto 5 MHz spectrum without any pay. Read more Economics Times that SSTL asks for more spectrum in certain circles.

4. With 2.5 MHz spectrum, they can offer maximum 9.8 Mbit/s downlink with EVDO Revision B- Phase II rollout. But if they can have 5 MHz (= 4 x 1.25 MHz carrier) spectrum they can offer 19.6 Mbit/s (4.9Mbit/s x 4) which can beat the 3G GSM players very very badly as their advertisement of 21 Mbit/s is just a bullshit!

5. India favours GSM for voice and CDMA for data - that is why CDMA is eroding. In some circles MTS can go for no-voice & only-data services. But frankly it simply harms the users. And it also hits the fact that CDMA does not offer much freedom like GSM does. One RUIM of MTS if can be used on mobile or modem or tablet/laptop for voice/sms/data will be the best thing!

So to turn into a data-only provider is not just distant future, it is distant dream! The thoughts of Cheenu can be very personal which is ground-&-sky different from company's policy!

Later on Telecomtalk the story had been edited few times, and final title ends in - 'MTS Remains Committed To Its Data Focused Voice Enabled Strategy' as I got the mail from MTS Team with some quick facts supporting company's vision of data-focused, voice-enabled servcies.

TechTree Reviews Ra.One, Rockstar, Kunal Guha's Review System Unscientific

2011-11-16T01:09:00.001+05:30

Long waited SRK film Ra.One came to cinemas in Diwali 2011. With its promos it did not impress me. But I had to see this crap because of my family who wanted some celebration of Diwali+Weekend!

I watched it, but can not digest it at all! It is a super crap! That time I liked to have some expert comments! So I googled it! Taran Adarsh gave it good marks - that is kind of well gesture to SRK, and some kind of paid review as I thought.

I also found Kunal Guha's blog on Yahoo!, who covers the film reviews on Yahoo! He gave it 'NOT EVEN ONE'. That is the truth of Ra.One it can not be tolerated by any people except SRK and SRK's dumbhead family & people from his production house!

But the most important & surprising thing is I find even Technology site TechTree did a review of Ra.One!!!!

Today I find they also covered a review of Rockstar !! I checked how they rate. They rate the film with some categories: Plot, Performances, Visuals, Sound, and Mojo. And at the end they make a overall marking with the film. Read the excellent review of Rockstar on DNAIndia.

My point is this is the way to rate a film or anything. Break down the points and make a over all impression by averaging the total score! This is also proves why Kunal Guha's review is unscientific! :P I agree that his review writings are good read. He rates the film as he likes or dislikes. So watch out his reviews when you are going to watch a film with mixed review! Otherwise skip it!

Update: TechTree did a review of The Adventures of Tintin!

'Sorry, we don't sell belts for waist size larger than 40'

2011-11-06T13:18:00.002+05:30

Be Slim, Otherwise You can't buy cloths from online shops!

Recently I came into an online shopping site for Men clothing & accessories. I got into it via a webad, which says Belt for men at Rs 249.
I check for the sizes they have and they have S, M, L sizes fit for waist size 28-40.

It simply says: Sorry, we don't sell belts for waist size larger than 40. :(

Oh note it, I still at 36 :P

The website: www.zovi.com - which indirectly pushes for cut down beer belly !

My Hands-On With All GSM Data Services in Kolkata

2011-11-01T00:17:00.004+05:30

With two 3G modems at hand – ZTE MF190 and Huawei E1550 I tried all available GSM players available at Kolkata circle. I did experimenting with their 2G packs and come to an conclusion that Uninor & BSNL is best at my home place, Barrackpore. I did not try my hands with 3G players, as they are costly and beyond the reach of most users.

Discalimer: This view is absolutely of mine, and based upon
my experience at Barrackpore region. You may see variation of results at place to place.

	30-day pack	My notes
Aircel	UL@Rs98	Speed is not good, d/l speed varies 4-20kBps Network Mode: EDGE, Speed Cap: 8192Mbps
Airtel	1GB@Rs98	Speed decent, though not stable Network Mode: EDGE, Speed Cap: 472kbps
BSNL	3GB@Rs98	Speed is good and stable if 3G network is chosen Network Mode: EDGE/HSDPA, Speed Cap: 240/128kbps
Idea	UL@Rs98 (FUP 3GB *)	Network sucks, speed is asusual fails to impress me. Network Mode: EDGE, Speed Cap: 256kbps
Reliance GSM	6GB@Rs99	Speed sucks despite of 3G network automatically chosen, as speed capped at 64kbps! Network Mode: EDGE/HSDPA, Speed Cap: 64kbps
Tata Docomo	4GB@Rs95 2.5GB @65	Not bad, but varies time to time. Network Mode: EDGE, Speed Cap: 128/472kbps
Uninor	6000 MB (daily 200MB)@Rs98	Speed is overall good, as it implanted daily cap and keeps the network less congested this way. Network Mode: EDGE, Speed Cap: 256kbps
Virgin GSM	4GB@Rs96	Similar to Tata Docomo. Network Mode: EDGE, Speed Cap: 472kbps
Vodafone	1GB@Rs98	Vfn GPRS just fails at my area; speed never went above 10kByte/s! Network Mode: EDGE, Speed Cap: 2048kbps

>< speed cap is seen by MDMA under QoS.

I also came to know how to unlock MTS MBlaze EVDO Modem (ZTE AC27**). As I got an EVDO modem on my hand, I will do some hands on with available CDMA players at my circle (Reliance, Tata Indicom/Docomo CDMA, Virgin Mobile CDMA, BSNL & MTS India).

I just come to know Virgin Mobile CDMA has been shut down, as in response to my mail, VMI Care informed me that no new CDMA connections will be offered in behalf of VMI. And no OMH Ruim will be provided. Check out Telecomtalk for more details.

Don't Waste Diwali Fun For Ra.One

2011-10-26T15:26:00.001+05:30

It is Diwali time!

Many stuffs to write on! But I can't ignore RaOne right now.

Diwali film is RA.One featuring that fat-brain numb SRK. Before the film release SRK made a fun of him asking everyone to watch him film (he went promoting!!).

Read more on Faking News – RaOne Fuljhuri and Ra.One Premiere show at Tihar Jail!!
There may be more stories on Fakingnews.com ! Another great pic on facebook - KlicK

One of my friends is a old time promoter of SRK films – he gave me Taran Adash’s ROreview link. I feel Taran is just flattering! I hate paid reviews!

Only person I think made justice to Ra.One is Kunal Guha. He gave it NOT EVEN ONE!

The fact is even our old time Bengali hero Prosenjit is getting great roles, eg Autograph & Baishe Srabon Shah Rukh Khan fails to make a real good film for last few years (Om Shanti Om, Rab Ne Bana Di Jodi, My Name is Khan). Even his Red Chilly film production company produces some crap films like ... I forget the name but it stars Love Aaj Kal girl Giselle Monteiro.

শারদ শুভেচ্ছা

2011-10-02T15:52:00.009+05:30

MTS offers bonus to customer care exec for convincing subscribers recharge more

2011-09-22T14:46:00.000+05:30

I am using MTS mobile since June 2009 and MTS Mblaze dongle (EVDO wireless broadband) since July 2010. MTS at Kolkata as well as in WB is going great. I don't have complain for MTS network.

I use around 120 bucks per month on MTS mobile - which includes daily Re 1 rental for 100 sms per day to any number in India. It is more than MTS's ARPU. So I am high ARPU customer!

But I seldom recharge my MBlaze connection. I just keep it alive by fulfilling their 6 month condition of minimum recharge of 200 bucks. Only plan of MBlaze that I like is Rs 295 for 10 GiB at weekends for 30 days.

Recently I got two calls from MTS asking or pushing me to recharge more.

I go the 1st call from MTS, the person on the other side is certainly an asshole. He started the convo like this: Hello Sir, I am from MTS. Why don't you like to have caller tunes services?
WTF is this! It is my opinion to take these fucking bullshit VASs and who the hell are you I should explain to?!
Whatever I told him just these things more politely and he was sounded like messed up and said: Ok Sir! and put the phone down! :)

I often get sms and calls from MTS's MBlaze section. They call me for changing my prepaid account to postpaid ones or informing me to send home services of MBlaze recharges (= they push me for recharge soon). But this time a Sumit called me and asked: Sir, when will you recharge your mblaze account. I told him that I want more data usage at cheaper price & validity can be of 7 days and as MTS has no such plans except STV295 I do not like recharge it anytime soon. He started luring me with plans which are crap with FUP of 1GB & then speed throttling. I told him I want speedy connection and MTS 1x network is already congested with voice customers. That time he started fumbling as I think he did not have this technical knowledge, and asked the same question again, when will you recharge? I told not any time soon....

After these 2 calls attended by me, I think MTS is pushing its CC execs for convincing customers for more recharges ! :)

What do you think ?

1st Online Order from Flipkart, Behind-the-Desk Story of Flipkart

2011-08-23T10:58:00.003+05:30

Recenlty I have done my 1st online shopping with Flipkart(FK). It was real good as I got the books within a week in 2 installments. I paid via Cash-On-Delivery (COD). FK use selft-delivery system for books, a person from FK will deliver the books to you and take the payment from you in cash.

Later I order a headphone which is told to be shipped via First Flight. The item will be delivered within 7 days to me.
How FK COD works:
1. place the order & it will be texted to your mobile.
2. FK will call u to confirm it (for 1st time only).
3. your FK COD status will be approved and the stuff will be shipped.
4. stuff will be delivered, and you pay on cash only to the person.

Previously my cousin introduced Indiaplaza to me, that was long time back. I registered with them, occasionally get free coupons for discounts on shopping on Indiaplaza. But frankly they are not good enough to lure me to buy something. Secondly I do not have the luxury to use credit card or online banking.

Now I feel FK is doing great job, and is a mile ahead of race with other online shopping site (OSS). It offers COD free of cost to almost every cities of India and its surroundings. I insist on 'surroundings' because most OSS do not offer COD at my place, but Flipkart does.

A good read: The Flipkart Story – All You Need To Know [Unofficially]

I checked out then-only-book-seller FK, probably middle of 2010. I bookmarked it and left. In the begining of 2011, FK had a makeover - with new logo, Flipkart starts selling other items indluding music, games, movies, computer, mobile, camera, home stuffs.

From the about us section of FK: FK was founded in 2007 and that time FK was selling only books.

Plugged.in reports that Amazon which has plans to enter India in 2012 had an acquisition plan for Flipkart.

Plugged.in got a tipster who informed that last year one of FK founders was in US to negotiate the deal. However deal could not be materalized as FK asked high buyout price. And it can be the catalyst behind FK's foray into e-commerce of all stuffs to give a good competition to Amazon when it will launch in India.

In my next story I will make a list of online sellers with attractive offers and tricks of online shopping.

Disgusting Experiences with Web Browsers

2011-08-22T03:53:00.000+05:30

For last 3 hours, I am having experience of hell with browsers installed in my laptop. Except my all time favorite Opera, all suck bigtime.

Google Chrome - fails to run! no chrome.exe found on task manager

Firefox 6 - there is no option for extension uninstall! WTF! Mozilla starts racing with Google Chrome, with version number and firefox's customization foundation extensions turn disabled due to incompatibility.

IE 9 - I hate it! no change of fucked up situation from IE 7! I shit on microsoft's this creation.

Problems With ZTE Modems and Solutions

2011-06-24T22:27:00.005+05:30

Before you read it, please be informed that never buy or recommend ZTE GSM-3G/HSPA/HSDPA/HSUPA modems. ZTE modems/data cards are good enough for EVDO/CDMA-1x devices, but not for GSM ones! For 3G/HSPA modems go for Huawei ones!

I am currently using ZTE MF190 – the similar device offered by Reliance 3G in

India

or Cell-C in

South Africa

. It is a HSUPA device – supports upto 5.76 Mbps uplink and upto 7.2 Mbps downlink.

There are many problems you may face with the device, the problems are similar to many other ZTE 3G modems. First of all ZTE modems come up with a UI/dashboard which does not support USSD.

To run USSD on ZTE modems, I tried to use AT-commands using different softwares like HyperTerminal or Putty. All tests went in vain. At last I got MDMA (www.nerve.org.za), which supports ZTE modems partially. Under QoS you can not see speed
cap set by the operator on your SIM. But with MDMA you can run USSD and can check balance easily without removing the SIM from the modem and putting it on the handset. To run MDMA you have shut down the main dashboard of the ZTE. Note that most Huawei
modems work fine with MDMA.

At this point, I would like to share another BIG BIG problem with ZTE modems. Following successful installation of the drivers, dashboard of the modem you may found the UI is not running and you can not able to connect to internet.

Error Messages you will see:

Exception EOleException in module DLL_NETCARD_R.DLL at 00054F3E

Access violation at address 00504D38 in module 'UIMain.exe'. Read of address 000052EC

EAccessViolation

The blue numbers vary from computer to computer. And UIMain.exe can be replaced by Modem.exe or Data Card.exe

Uninstall and Re-installing of the modem will not help with this problem.

There was a PDF on ZTE Australia site (http://www.zte.com.au/downloads/EOL%20exception.pdf) – but now the link is not working.

It said that you may have this problem if you enable compatibility mode. The solution is simple.

Right click on the desktop shortcut of the UI &; Click on Compatibility Tab &; Deselect the option of Run this program in compatibility mode for. You are done!

Whenever you find out this problem, please check the above thing first!

If the problem still persists, read below:

The problem is that Microsoft Jet 4.0 is not working well. So download Jet4.0 offered by ZTE Colombia - http://www.ztemobilecolombia.com/descargas/InstallMSJet40.exe

My problem was solved after installing this program.

Otherwise you can also download the following file from the microsoft page: http://download.microsoft.com/download/a/d/f/adfdf363-0b09-4f39-bf89-1b4bc234fe97/windowsxp-kb829558-x86-enu.exe Run the downloaded file and run the program again the ZTE modem and/or reinstall the software of the card.

If more problems are faced by me, will be updated here.

Some Popular China-Made Applications

2011-05-05T13:39:00.000+05:30

HaoZip - data compression app similar of WinRar or WinZip or 7-Zip

Maxthon - Browser based on IE Trident Engine/Chromium engine, available for Windows and Android OS.

Avant - IE based Windows browser. Have a Sister Orca Browser based on Mozilla's Gecko engine.

UCWeb - A mobile browser for Symbian, Android, Java & WinMo

QQ - wiki Page chat messenger

FlashGet - download manager on Windows

Xunlei - torrent client Website - http://www.xunlei.com/ No ENGLISH!!

>>> Will be Updated !

3G Avalibility in West Bengal

2011-04-21T08:40:00.001+05:30

Kolkata has 4 3G operators - BSNL, Reliance, Aircel, Vodafone while West Bengal has 5 3G operators - BSNL, Reliance, Aircel, Airtel, Vodafone.

In Kolkata all operators commercially rolled out 3G services. It is expected Airtel will enter into spectrum shareing & roaming agreement with Vodafone to offer 3G services in Kolkata. Idea Cellular already promised to give a nation-wide 3G roaming, and thus 3G services on pan India basis.

BSNL 3G Coverage (speed upto 3.6/7.2Mbps)
On April 2010 BSNL 3G was present over 44 cities of WB. Source Telecomtalk

Durgapur, Haldia, Behrampur, Asansol, Burdwan, Midnapur, Krishnagar, Diamond Harbour, Basirhat, Bangaon, Contai, Bolpur, Tamluk, Suri, Jalpaiguri, Raniganj, Ranaghat, Bishnupur, Bankura, Gangtok (Sikkim), Purulia, Habra, Balurghat, Raiganj, Coochbehar, Alipurduar, Namchi, Mangan, Gazying, Malda, Siliguri, Faraka-NTPC, Mayapur, Jaigaon, Khejuriaghat, Kalimpong, MIT Bishnupur, Singtam, Naybazar, SMIT-Majitar, Bagdogra, Chakda and Kharagpur.

Airtel 3G Coverage (speed upto 21Mbps) [Airtel has no 3G spectrum in Kolkata]
Durgapur

Reliance 3G Coverage (speed upto 28Mbps :P)
Asansol, Bankura, Brarakar, Behrampore, Burdwan, Durgapur, English Bazar, Haldiya, Jangipur, Kharagpur, Krishnagar, Nabadwip, Ranaghat, Raniganj, Siliguri

Aircel 3G Coverage (speed upto 21Mbps)
Asansol, Durgapur, Siliguri, Darjeeling and Jalpaiguri.
Aircel 3G speed test at Barrackpore
Vodafone 3G Coverage (speed upto 21Mbps)

Asansol, Bolpur, Burdwan, Durgapur, Haldia, Krishnanagar, Siliguri

Partially Updated on 10 Feb, 2012
Check out Telecomtalk's 3G Coverage Page - http://telecomtalk.info/3g-coverage-details/

Subho Nababorsho

2011-04-15T07:52:00.005+05:30

Subho Nababorsho 1418

Digest: Android of Laptop, RIP Flock, Opera 11.10

2011-04-14T21:45:00.000+05:30

For last few hours I went through some news. I like to share these:

Let Android Power Your Netbook via Tech2

I am not adding more to it. But certainly it is a good news for those are like to try Android by any means.

Flock, the social browser died, as Zynga infected it! via FavBrowser. R.I.P. Flock

Just to add, Flock was aquired by Zynga. Yeah Zynga is the company that makes Ville games. Thank god, I am now not addicted to Farmville! Zynga will deploy Flock developers to develop social games. Whatever I am never a fan of Flock or Firefox! (but I support Mozilla and its Firefox to kill IE. ) Interesting news is RockMelt (some people think it's the new face of socialism :P ) - Chromium based browser released Beta 2.

Oh damn Opera released its v11.10 of desktop legend. via Desktop Team Blog

New Opera is fast, well on my machine I experiencing it! New speed dial and new Turbo is just rocking !

Bengali Films Remade from South Indian Films

2011-04-13T01:04:00.001+05:30

Though I made the caption as 'REMADE', these days commercial bengali films are just mere scene-to-scene copy and paste from south Indian films (Tamil/Telugu/Kannada etc). Sometimes same music and location are also used.

Raj Chakraborty of Mirakkel fame is making his films which are just copy of south Indians films. * marked films are directed by him.

At the same time, bengali film industry is continuing showcasing good films like Antaheen, Autograph, Kagojer Bou, 22se Srabon etc etc ...

Sathi (2002) - Thulladha Manamum Thullum tamil, 1999 [Sathi was debut of Jeet]
*Prem Amar (2009) - 7G Rainbow Colony tamil, 2004
*Chirodini Tumi Je Amar (2008) - Kaadhal tamil, 2004
Bhalobasa Bhalobasa - Bommarillu telugu, 2006
I Love You - Nuvvostanante Nenoddantana telugu, 2005
Premer Kahini - Mungaru Male kannada, 2006
Wanted (2010) - Athadu telugu, 2005
Amanush - Kaadhal Kondein tamil, 2003
*Le Chakka (2010) - Chennai 600028 tamil, 2007
*Challenge (2009) - Bunny telugu, 2005
*Dui Prithibi (2010) - Gamyam telugu, 2008
Sedin Dekha Hoyechilo - Parugu telugu, 2008
Bolo Na Tumi Amar - Happy telugu, 2006
Fighter - Lakshyam telugu, 2007
Satru (2011) - Singam tamil, 2010
Paglu (2011) - Devadasu telugu, 2006
Romeo (2011) - Konchem Ishtam Konchem Kashtam telugu, 2009
Faande Poriya Boga Kaande Re - Maryada Ramanna telugu, 2010

100% Love (2012) - 100% Love telugu, 2011
Khokababu (2012) - Dhee telugu, 2007

It will be updated....
Thanks to my readers! Guys keep informing me via comments!

The Dark Knight Rises - Casting So Far

2011-03-20T12:21:00.002+05:30

The Dark Knight Rises, the 3rd and final installment of Christopher Nolan's Batman series is scheduled to release on summer of 2012.

On October 27, 2010, Nolan confirmed that the title of the film will be The Dark Knight Rises.

Wikipedia already made a page on the film - The Dark Knight Rises
check this page for updates!

Director - Christopher Nolan
Screenplay - David S. Goyer and Jonathan Nolan

Casting as it is expected:

Christian Bale as Batman/Bruce Wayne

Michael Caine as Alfred Pennyworth
Gary Oldman as James Gordon
Morgan Freeman as Lucius Fox
Nestor Carbonell as Mayor Anthony Garcia

Tom Hardy as Bane

Anne Hathaway as Selina Kyle/Catwoman

Joseph Gordon-Levitt as John Blake, a Gotham City beat cop assigned to special duty under the command of Commissioner Gordon. ~~[Alberto Falcone/Holiday Killer]~~

Marion Cotillard as Miranda Tate, an employee of Bruce Wayne. Miranda is a socialite and a Wayne Enterprises board member who wishes to help Wayne continue his father’s philanthropic deeds. Or she is Talia-al-Gul in disguise?

Juno Temple as a streetwise Gotham girl expected to be Holly Robinson, sidekick to Catwoman.

Josh Pence as a young Ra’s in 30 years earlier flashback

Daniel Sunjata as a ‘special forces operative’

Diego Klattenhoff as a rookie cop

Burn Gorman ?

Music by Hans Zimmer [He told music will be iconic and epic! ]

Some Rumors, which are never TRUE
Ellen Page as Poison Ivy
Eddie Murphy as the Riddler
Jack Black as Black Mask
Robin Williams as Hugo Strange

April end reports TDKR will be shot in Jodhpur India. It sparks the speculation of TDKR's plot - to include return of The League of Shadows and early days of Ra-al-Gul!
But at the same time Mission Impossible IV was shot in Mumbai (the film stars Anil Kapoor) as TOI reports. Is it MI4 or TDKR to be shot in Jodhpur?

Can you remember Rory's First Kiss the working title of The Dark Knight? The 3rd movie will also be shooting under the alternate titles 'Magnus Rex' and 'Fox Hills Green' to keep prying eyes away from the set.
I expect Nolan will change the title of the final film. TDKR is a boring title!

Aircel 3G Speed Test in Kolkata

2011-02-26T00:12:00.002+05:30

Aircel 3G speed tests are done at Barrackpore, Kolkata.

More Details http://telecomtalk.info/aircel-kolkata-3g-service-speed-test-and-review/57816/

Findings:
1. Your Aircel 2G mobile no is not automatically registered to Aircel 3G network

2. After sending START 3G to 121, my Aircel mobile can able to connect to Aircel 3G network.
3. The smartphone I used supports upto 3.6Mbps HSDPA - speedtest

4. Network is quite stable for sub-urban area, full HSPA network!
5. With Modem supporting upto 7.2Mbps HSPA - [APN aircelweb ]
On Delhi Server:

On New York Server:

File download via IDM:

India Telecommunications Companies on Twitter!

2011-02-21T23:44:00.001+05:30

Airtel
http://twitter.com/Airtel_Presence
http://twitter.com/airtelnews
http://twitter.com/airtel_in
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PSU

http://twitter.com/BSNLLiVE3G

http://twitter.com/MTNLMobile

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Others
http://twitter.com/uninor
http://twitter.com/Aircel_India
http://twitter.com/ideacellular
http://twitter.com/vodafonein
http://twitter.com/vmobi
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Reliance

http://twitter.com/reliancemobile
http://twitter.com/relianceworld
http://twitter.com/relgsm
http://twitter.com/relnetconnect
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TTSL
http://twitter.com/tatadocomo
http://twitter.com/TataWalky
http://twitter.com/ttsl ?
http://twitter.com/TataTelCustCare
http://twitter.com/indicomtata
http://twitter.com/tataphotonplus
http://twitter.com/virginmobilein
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Handset Manufacturers
http://twitter.com/NokiaIndia
http://twitter.com/Samsung_Mobiles
@lemon_mobiles
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News
http://twitter.com/ETTelecom
http://twitter.com/telecomtalk

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ISP

http://twitter.com/spectranet_in

http://twitter.com/spectranet_Ind

http://twitter.com/mgcarley (COO of Hayai)

http://twitter.com/hayai_in

Will be updated as it is brought !

Facts of BSNL Broadband (as I find)

2011-02-14T19:55:00.000+05:30

Some facts regarding BSNL Broadband , based on my experience (updated on 14.02.2011)

..... so if u r reading this one. please note I live in Kolkata . so facts are based on services at Kolkata.

BSNL Broadband is opertional under NIB-I & NIB-II . and these two National Internet Backbones have different IPs , NIB-I IPs start with 59.X.X.X and NIB II IPs look like 117.X.X.X

Watch your IP Address below :

And these two systems are managed differently, as NIB I customers can manage their BB services via http://www.dataone.in/ or http://10.240.43.216 or http://10.240.128.195 .

Where NIBII users can manage their service via http://data.bsnl.in or http://bbservice.bsnl.in (there are another IP based log In site for NIB II - I cant remember that one right now !!). NIB II users can't log in the sites for NIB I, nor do NIB I users !

NIB I is older and more stable network than NIB II , probably 'coz NIB II is more powerful in placing more users causing real time maintainace and problem occurs. All new BB customers are placed on NIB II.

~~BSNL BB has~~ ~~NO Prepaid plans~~ - all plans are Postpaid along with Land line - ADSL technology is used, and in this technology upto 8Mbps bandwidth can be offered. Check the tariffs here
Update: BSNL launched Prepaid plans now - official page

MY Plan - the plan i opted now is 'Home 500C' - ~~I think this plan is best for a home~~, offers free calls and night unlilmited net surfing !

Details of Home 500C plan
Monthly Rental Rs 500/- (+10% S.T.)
Free Calls 175 @ One India Tariff
Free Data transfer 1.5 GB[post free usage ~~60p/MB~~ 20p/MB*]
Night UL Data transfer : 2-8 AM

Best Plan is now Home 500C+
Monthly Rental Rs 600/- (+10% S.T.)
Free Calls 250 @ One India Tariff
Free Data transfer 2.5 GB [post free usage ~~50p/MB~~ 20p/MB for 1st 5GB extra usage, then 10p/MB*]
Night UL Data transfer : 2-8 AM

*update from http://telecomtalk.info/bsnl-renovate-its-broadband-plans-intros-new-unlimited-plan/54045/

and I am on NIB-II.
A general Misconception : BSNL counts 1GB as 1024 MB, so 1.5GB= 1536 MB, 2.5GB= 2560MB . so use upto limit, if u calculate 1GB as 1000MB, u r loosing (24 MB X 0.90p)= Rs. 21.6 or (36 MB X 0.80p) = Rs 28.8 or (60MB X 0.80p)= Rs 48.
well I am happy with this plan .... but Why Should I say BSNL sucks :x

come to next part .....

1. BSNL Broaband Customer Care on phone is worst as their mobile CC. if they ask u they will call back they never will, but 1st time i waited for the sexy voice ;) nd she never call me back :(

2. during 1st 3-5 days of a month u can nt view ur usage details - i mean data usage will not be updated regualrly.

3. after 5th day, u will find some peculiar problems upto 12th of the month! like:
* when u r dialing to connect it will show 'connecting through Wan miniport PPPoE'
* verifying ur username and passwrd for a long time
* or it may ended up it showing 'phone line is busy'
* if u can connect, ur net activity becomes totally inactive after a few seconds, or may be disconnected automatically. well u like reconnect it and will see 'connecting through Wan miniport PPPoE' . to connect again , u may need to restart modem, wait for ADSL light blinking or even may need to restart ur PC as well . then wait for few minutes to connect to net again for fe minutes - hmm in 5-7minutes u need to do all ur online work !
* during this time data.bsnl.in will not open and ask to u to contact administrators. ;-o
I advice everyone to take this as BSNL's funny side, what if you keep downloading every night, so give a sleep to your fav PC !!

4. well u r near to bsnl office, as i am. i went ot their office during 1st months. their answer is same: regular maintainance !

5. if u took modem from bsnl n it screwed u down, get ready lost 7 days for getting a new one frm them. - well this picture is changing , as per my area news, u can get back a new modem within 3days!

6. and often they fail to measure ur data transfer during last hours of the month, so if u r using ur remaining free usage during last hours of a month, make sure dnt cross the limit, they will make it in ur next month's bill.

Still bsnl gives 2Mbps net connection wth 6hrs/day unlimited, if u r clever enough can hack other a/c to be online 24 hrs (provided ur line is not port-binded!). or 20min xtra unlimited evryday. even u don't need to be awake every night to start downld , i do it with windows schedule, nircmd and some batch files (.bat) - this complete schduling in my case includes disconnecting @ 1.58AM, connect @2.02AM, startinf utorrent & IDM, reconnecting if any time net disconnects , shut down machine @8.00AM.

[~~Do NOT ask me here how to hack or how to use 20 min xtra free - i will tell that on another blog!~~ The flaw is rectified, no free usage after 8am ]

after talking to my friends i find what people really need now - 2Mbps UL plan. and some people ask for 12-7AM night UL plans - but i think 2-8AM is good, atleast bandwidth is quite free and most people dont knw how to utilize night hours sleeping in their beds .

.... well i am hearing some rumors of 12-7am night UL and upgradation to 4mbps and slashing of BB tariffs for a long time. can't say they r false. as i got them from bsnl officials. but when these r going to implement god knows ...

well thats all ..... happy poila baishakhi '১৪১৬' to all ....
Rudro !

Read my MTS Mblaze - Wireless broadband review on Telecomtalk: http://telecomtalk.info/mts-mblaze-review/44242/

Disclaimer of this post: The facts could be changed with out any notice and may be different w.r.t. circle, area, exchange etc parameters.

MVNO in India - Are Virgin & T24 Really MVNO?

2011-02-08T09:44:00.001+05:30

MVNO [Read more on Wikipedia] in India is not active. Though often we mistook Virgin Mobile India & T24 as MVNO on TTSL's CDMA & GSM network.

Actually that's not true, pan India MVNO license is priced Rs 85crore. Neither VMI & T24 is taken this license.
Rather both of them are products from Tata Teleservices (TTSL).

VMI (www.virginmobile.in) is TTSL's youth focused brand, here TTSL uses Virgin brand name for its own product.
T24 or Talk24 (www.t24mobile.com) is also TTSL's product specially for Future grp customers. T24 is a kind of royality program from Future Grp.

Reliance 3G Speed Test

2011-01-30T12:05:00.003+05:30

Reliance Speed test in Barrackpore, Kolkata, West Bengal
Mumbai

London

Tokyo

Also check out Reliance SIM Kit - specially made for promoting 3G services:

Reliance sells unlocked Data Cards: http://www.rcom.co.in/Rcom/personal/3G/HTML/DataCards.html (You can have drivers of the 3G data cards)

Reliance USSD Code
*367# main balance/validity/promo tt
*367*1# promo min/r2r onnet loc min/std min

*367*2# All loc min/r2r loc min
*367*3# all sms/loc sms/all r2r gsm std min

Reliance GSM vs Reliance Smart - Both are same!

2011-01-29T14:18:00.000+05:30

If you are confused about Reliance GSM and Reliance Smart GSM services, this map will help you.

Note that both are now under GSM services from Reliance Communications.

Though offerings are same on both, there is a difference in APN to access GPRS.

in R-GSM APN is 'rcomnet'
in Smart APN is 'smartnet'

Check where you are and choose your APN if you are using Reliance GPRS/3G Data services.

Reliance 2G GPRS Pack - http://www.rcom.co.in/Rcom/rworld/mobilenet/plans.html

2010 & 2011's Bengali Films To Watch

2011-01-25T16:43:00.001+05:30

Bangla cinema er market 2010 theke hotat tunge utheche ... besi kotha na bole 2010 er cinema gulo r ekta list kore dilam :
Mainstream movie gulo dhorlam na, sudhu jegulo ektu onyo rokom chilo seguloi list e thaklo ... kichu 2011 er cinema r naam o thaklo ....

The Japanese Wife

Byomkesh Bakshi
Shukno Lanka
Autograph
Moner Manush
Gorosthane Sabdhan
Arekti Premer Golpo
Laboratory

Tara - Amra noi, Ora noi, Tara

Mahanagar@Kolkata
Clerk
033
Natobor Not Out
Banshiwala
Sthaniya Sangbad

** Bold gulo amar dekha! :)

Wiki list of 2010 Bengali- Kolkata films - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bengali_films_of_2010

2011 er kichu cinema:
Bedeni
Iti Mrinalini
Bye Bye Bangkok
Takhan Teish
Jio Kaka
Egaro

Wiki list of 2010 Bengali- Kolkata films - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bengali_films_of_2011

Internet Service Providers (ISP) of Kolkata

2010-12-15T10:42:00.003+05:30

Wired Internet:

BSNL - Dial up (obsolete)
BSNL Broadband
Sify Broadband & high speed Internet
Tata Indicom Broadband
Reliance Broadband

Airtel Broadband
Meghbela Broadband
Wishnet Broadband
Alliance Broadband
SpeedNet Broadband
Ortel Broadband - call 033-40016891
Siti Broadband
Get Network
Manthan Broadband

Wireless Internet

ISPs offering Wireless Internet on 2.4Ghz Spectrum
Tikona Digital Networks
Meghbela Broadband
BlinkNet
Sky Vision Broadband
A1Diginet = www.a1diginet.in , www.a1diginet.co.cc

WiMAX
[right now none of them offering WiMAX to new users]
BSNL
Reliance
Tata Communications

4G - LTE
Infotel
Airtel

CDMA: via USB dongle
BSNL: 1x (upto 153.6kbps) & EVDO (upto 3.1Mbps)
Tata Photon/Virgin vLink (upto 153.6kbps) and Photon+/Virgin vFlash (upto 3.1Mbps)
Reliance Netconnect Broadband (upto 153.6kbps) and Netconnect Broadband+ (upto 3.1Mbps)
MTS MBrowse (upto 153.6kbps) & MTS MBlaze (upto 3.1Mbps)
* CDMA Internet services also available on mobile if handset supports.

GPRS/EDGE: (upto 236kbps) [via Mobiles/USB dongles]
Aircel
Airtel
BSNL
Idea
Reliance
Tata Docomo/Virgin Mobile/T24
Uninor
Vodafone

3G GSM - upto 3.6Mbps in most areas
BSNL
Reliance
Aircel
Vodafone
Idea via Vodafone
Airtel via Vodafone

Consumer Tech Gadgets - Made In India

2010-08-21T07:29:00.001+05:30

India is going great, as we find some of indigenous gadgets are coming soon which could change the scenario in gadget market. Most of them are on pre-order stage or coming soon phase before commercial roll out.

Notion Ink's Adam - http://www.notionink.in/

probably will show a upper cut to iPad when released! Specs are highly appealing! Coming at the end of 2010 as developers undergo some problems.

Olive Telecom's OlivePad - http://www.olivetelecom.in/laptop/olivepad/

India's first 3G tablet as it is quoted, website tells price will be Sub 25,000 inclusive of memory card
Coming at end of August 2010.

Infibeam's Phi - http://www.infibeam.com/Phi
comes Windows and Android flavor. Releasing August 30, 8GB version priced Rs 14,999

Tvara Tech’s Tablet - www.tvaratech.com

Government’s $35 tablet under Sakshat project
NDTV Video link

EC Media's Wink - http://www.thewinkstore.com/ereader/index

Wink XTS 2GB comes at Rs. 11490, shipping starts from September 1, 2010
It has WiFi but no 2G/3G connectivity!

Tablets will rock in coming days. Read more about tablets of 2010 - Link

Apart from these stuffs, mobile handset market sees growth of some desi companies like Micromaxx, Karbonn, Lava, Spice. But they are not critically acclaimed. Spice is bringing Android tablet in October 2010.

[Endhiran] Robot 2010 HINDI MP3 SONGS

2010-08-17T01:29:00.000+05:30

Aish-Rajinikanth starred sci-fi Endhiran [robot] comin wth hindi version
Music director AR Rahman
128kbps - 7 songs 30MB
ALL SONGS IS RARED AND MADE UPLOADED IN ONE PACK to ZIDDU
http://www.ziddu.com/download/11244698/Robot.rar.html
MY PERSONAL FAV: Track 01 and 02

Epic Browser - Browser for India

2010-07-18T12:24:00.002+05:30

Epic Browser lands on 15th July, 2010...

The Epic Browser is the first-ever web browser for India and the first product from Bangalore based software company Hidden Reflex. Alok Bhardwaj is the CEO and Founder of Hidden Reflex.
The main reason to bring Epic browser is to create the most secure, most productive and most “Indian” browsing experience of any web browser!

Epic Browser's salient points: [italics are my comments]

based upon Mozilla Firefox and so on Gecko Engine.
dubbed as the first web browser from India.
includes antivirus (claims to be world's first antivirus browser) - additional download of 25MB. AV is backed by ESET, maker of NOD32 Security products.
Default theme is Firefox Persona which is further added with some many Indianisms.
Default Skin and appeance (screenshot below) is found to be very dark. I don't like it. But with Epic you can change the wallpaper (like Opera Browser) and can make your custom theme with Header and Footer of your choice. You can see their is no Epic icon at left upper corner to save space.

Epic has a sidebar at left side, on its FAQ it is clearly mentioned that you can not replace it to right or bottom ! :(
Epic Write : as they claim it a fully featured Word Processor, I don't find it is great to handle .txt, .doc, .html and .htm. But it is great if you want to write in Indian languages, I tried with Bengali and experience is good enough - can be saved as text or html file. I don't think it's an alternative to Opera's Notes, Epic Write is more complex and for Indic language support.
See its buttons: click on it for full size

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Amit Trivedi is Back in B-Town with 'Aisha'

2010-07-14T07:04:00.003+05:30

edi

I started liking his music after I heard DeV.D soundtracks - which was termed as 'Baap of all genres'
Amit Trivedi [Wikipedia] is back in town with Aisha and Anurag Kashyap's Udaan.

I did not get time to listen Udaan's songs, but listened Aisha's, and getting crazy with these! :)

My top two songs with lyrics>>>>

Song Name: Suno Aisha

Tum ho kamaal, tum bemisaal, tum lajawab ho aisha
Aisi haseen ho, jis ko choo lo usko haseen kar do
Tum sochti ho duniya mein koi bhi kyun kharaab ho aisha
Tum chahati ho tum koi rang har zindagi mein bhar do, bhar do

Nikli ho likhne kismat ki seekhi apni hi dhun mein tum aisha
Yeh shauk kya hai, yeh zid hai kaisi, itna bata do humko
Suljaane mein tum aur bhi uljane, hoti ho jo ghum aisha
Apni bhi koi uljan ko door kar ke dikha do humko
Suno aisha, itna to tum bhi samjho
Aisha, tum chahe jitna chaho
Aisha, tum jitni koshish karo lo
Aisha, tum sa na hoga koi

Baaton mein ho aa jaati, ho jaati ho jazbaati
Soche samjhe bin ke mohabbat ki hai raah kya
Pal mein ho ke deewani, karti ho tum mannmaani
Tum kahe duniya vuniya ki koi parwah kya
Aisha jise kehte hain, ek hai woh lakhon mein
Dil mein jaake rukti hai woh, aati hai jo aankhon mein
Magar aisha, itna to tum bhi samjho
Aisha, tum chahe jitna chaho
Aisha, tum jitni koshish karo lo
Aisha, tum sa na hoga koi

Suno aisha, itna to tum bhi samjho
Aisha, tum chahe jitna chaho
Aisha, tum jitni koshish karo lo
Aisha, tum sa na hoga koi
Suno aisha, itna to tum bhi samjho
Aisha, tum chahe jitna chaho
Aisha, tum jitni koshish karo lo
Aisha, tum sa na hoga koi

Song Name: Gal Mitthi Mitthi

Gal mitthi mitthi bol, das kaano vich gol
Bajne de taashe dhol, masti mein tu vi dol
Mann de naina tu khol
Chahat ke moti rol
Dil hunda ae anmol, jedo lashke na tol
Aa sohni tenu chaand ki main choodi pehrawa
Mainu kar de ishaara te main dholi lai aanwa
Gal mitthi mitthi bol, das kaano vich gol
Bajne de taashe dhol, masti mein tu vi dol

Jaan le vatheriyan do, jaise na koi ho fida
Tera ang sharara jaise maare lishkara sohniye
Dekhan ta dil dhadke, tann mein agan bhadke
Surat aisi mannmoni kitta dasta tu hai sohni heeriye
Gal mitthi mitthi bol, das kaano vich gol
Bajne de taashe dhol, masti mein tu vi dol
Mann de naina tu khol
Chahat ke moti rol
Dil hunda ae anmol, jedo lashke na tol
Aa sohni tenu chaand ki main choodi pehrawa
Mainu kar de ishaara te main dholi lai aanwa

Chahne wala hoon tera, dekh le dard zara
Tu jo vekhe ik nazar kara lakhan da shukar sohniye
Dekh to tu keh ke mujhe, jaan bhi de dunga tujhe
Tera aisa hoon deewana, tune ab tak yeh na jaana heeriye
Gal mitthi mitthi bol, das kaano vich gol
Bajne de taashe dhol, masti mein tu vi dol
Mann de naina tu khol
Chahat ke moti rol
Dil hunda ae anmol, jedo lashke na tol
Aa sohni tenu chaand ki main choodi pehrawa
Mainu kar de ishaara te main dholi lai aanwa
Gal mitthi mitthi bol, gal mitthi mitthi bol

Indian Users Slowing Moving to Facebook!

2010-06-26T20:22:00.000+05:30

If you check recent trends.... orkut users of India are gradually moving to facebook. facebook is going to be face of India's social networking. ( i am not considering twitter , and other Indian SNSs like zapak, bigadda, ibibo, indyarocks etc)Why ? I asked myself and my friends and find out following points in favor of facebook:

1. Facebook has differential approach to pc users, mobile users, sms users (specially for 3rd world countries), different mobile handset users (specific handset settings like iPhone)
2. community of orkut can be accessed via m.orkut.com while m.facebook.com is more advanced
3. as fb offers devilery of sms updates to most of Indian carriers it gains more popularity than orkut.
4. new orkut theme - that sucks completely/
6. people get bored with orkut.

7. fb apps like farmville, mafia wars are better than orkut apps
8. u can manage fb via sms - not paying Rs 3/SMS !
9. u can reply, upload photos via mail to fb
10. Indian carriers like fb - RCOM and Videocon offering free fb access via 0.facebook.com; Tata Docomo offering free fb BuddyNet users; Uninor also offering free fb access without any pack.
11. most handsets ranging from Nokia to local Micromax, Lava etc have dedicated fb button of special app for easy access.
12. u can update status which remains live even if u update new status, and people can comment on it!

Add more points why Orkut users migrating to Facebook! Comment on guys!

Raavan is based on Joker's appearance in The Dark Knight or what?!

2010-06-24T16:56:00.001+05:30

Check the similarity!

What Manirantam wanted to make -Raavan's Beera is nothing but an anti hero like Joker in The dark knight ! but no integrity of the storyline of Raavan makes the film a flop!

Fix 12gn6id2.exe

2010-06-24T05:50:00.003+05:30

Recently my PC got infected with 12gn6id2.exe

Symptoms:
Drives are opening a new explorer when double clicked.
Hidden files can't be seen after enabling it! :(

Best solution found on: http://hotzone-it.blogspot.com/2010/05/how-to-remove-12gn6id2exe.html

If you get confused on the site what to download : http://www.mediafire.com/?1zom424yzm4
But I recommend you to visit the site and download updated(if any) virus removal tool !

How to use the downloaded 'PeeTechFix-Win32.PSW.OnlineGames 2.0.7_AVDB-098.zip' >>>

extract, read the 'read me.txt' and go on!
use this app on SAFE MODE otherwise malware remains persistant!
Restart after the tool has done the work!
Machine will be fine! :)
and delete the '12gn6id2.exe' and 'autorun.inf' from each drive !

Uninor Kolkata Prepaid Plan

2010-06-03T01:39:00.118+05:30

So at last Uninor [ wikipedia ] launched its services in Kolkata and West Bengal on 1st June through a press conference.

On Tuesday, June 1st, 2010 Uninor rolled out its operations simultaneously in five circles — West Bengal, Kolkata, Maharashtra and Goa, Mumbai and Gujarat — and is gearing up to roll out services in Punjab, Haryana, Himachal Pradesh and Madhya Pradesh in the next phase of expansion. Press Release (pdf).

Uninor has licence for operations over 22 circles of India, but still they did not receive spectrum for Delhi and major cities in North East. Security checking also causes delay to launching over India for Uninor.

Uninor is looking at around 8% market share in the country by 2018, achieve cash flow positive in five years and EBITDA breakeven in three years.

Uninor connections (only prepaid at the moment) will be available at over 11,000 points of sale through about 35 distributors and at 16 exclusive shops in Kolkata. This, according to Uninor's executive vice president, Kolkata Hub, Akash Das, is the largest ever launch distribution in the city achieved by any GSM operator in India. For customer, it means a Uninor connection is available right next door -- at a supermarket, a kirana shop, chemist, local mobile outlet, an exclusive Uninor shop.

“Uninor’s network is brand new with the most modern equipment and the very latest IT systems. It’s a congestion free network powered by the latest technology anyone can deploy today. For customers, this will mean superior voice quality, less call drops, maximum first attempt dials and a much better experience overall on our network,” said Rajiv Bawa, Executive Vice-President, Corporate Affairs, Uninor.

Uninor is the brand name of GSM services of Unitech Wireless, a Telenor-Unitech company. Telenor is a Norway-based global telecom company having presence all over the globe, noted to be present in Bangladesh and Pakistan. In Bangladesh Telenor offers services under brand name of Grameenphone, and in Pakistan it is branded as Telenor Pakistan. Unitech is India's real estate major.

Uninor while debuts in India, came with some bullshit plan - 29p/local min and 49p/STD min with per call 39p call setup charge or daily rental Rs2 ! People starts saying Uninor a global telecom company has no taste for local. As this plan failed miserably, though there are always some people who tries new operator, Uninor comes with '24x7 Changing Discount Plan' or DP. This tariff model is already tested in Bangladesh.

24x7 Changing Discount Plan - Uninor Page

Price Rs 48,
Talktime Rs 10
Customer will enjoy this DP facility for 365 days.
Local calls 50p/min and you can get 5- 60% discount, based upon location and time of calling. Not applicable when roaming.
STD calls - 50p/min
SMS local and STD - 25p

Uninor's innovative dynamic pricing called ‘24x7 badalta discount scheme:

Uninor will offer call discounts that will change from 5% to 60% with location and with time – with each cell phone tower broadcasting a different discount. At the same location, the discount will change every hour.

This means, if you are in an area where the tower is less utilized, you would get more discount for call initiated from that tower. If you are in an area where the local tower connected with your mobile is more busy, you would get less discount. The discount offer in particular area will flash on your mobile. Suppose you are in area “A”, your mobile phone screen will show: “40% discount”, and if you are in area “B”, it will show “5% discount”. If you dial a call from area “A” and continuing that call if you move ahead to area “B”, you will be charged discounted rate of area “A”. If the tower of your area is utilized more at 18:00 hour, you will get less discount in that hour at that place, but if in same area, at same place, the same tower is less utilized at suppose 23:00 hours, then you will get higher discount at that time. This scheme will be applicable to all local calls.

Discounts are calculated by an intelligent ‘Discount Engine’ that relies on state-of-the-art IT systems to continuously monitor traffic at every tower in the network. Applicable discounts based on real time network traffic at every individual tower are broadcast to all mobile phone screens under the coverage of that tower. The system also ensures that the discount at which a call is originated is maintained through the duration of the call – even if the customer moves from the coverage of that tower to the next.

Under the ‘24X7 Badalta Discount Plan (DP)’, customers will be able to avail a discount on their calls that ranges from 5% to as much as 60%, depending on their location and time at which they call – so simply by crossing a street, at the next local station or 1 hour later at the same location. This discount will be applicable on a standard base call rate of 50 paisa per minute for any local call, Uninor-to-Uninor or Uninor-to-any other operator. This means a 1-minute local call could cost as low as 20 paisa and never more than 50 paisa. [Source: DeshGujarat]

Uninor Kolkata launch ( Rediff coverage )

I would like to take Uninor connection to test how good is their network and specially to taste this Discount plan.

Start up kit comes at Rs 49 includes SIM with lifetime validity* and basic 'Uninor 60' plan which is offering all local and STD calls and SMS @60p and MMS @Rs 5 and GPRS @ 10p/10kb.

You can also manage your fancy mobile number selecting last 5 digit of your uninor mobile number.

I found Retailers are selling Uninor connection with DP @ just Rs 70 which includes Rs 65 talktime.

* Uninor sim-cards come with Real Life time validity which means that to continue receiving incoming calls you need not recharge it compulsorily as other operators have that clause of “Recharge with Rs.200 in every 6 months” to continue with Lifetime validity.

UNINOR SMS PACKS for Kolkata

Rs 7 all Uninor to Uninor SMS at 1 paisa per SMS. All SMS messages from Uninor to any other network locally and nationally will be charged at 11 paise per SMS. valid for 30 days.
Rs 13 1,00,000 FREE Uninor to Uninor local SMS. All other local & national SMS will be available at 11p. Post 1 lakh sms, local uninor SMS will be available at 1p per SMS. The STV and its benefits are valid for 30 days. But when I called Uninor care, he said 1 lakh local SMS to any network comes with Rs 13 pack. may be this is for Kolkata.
* As I do facebook via SMS, only local SMS pack will not help me! :(
Rs 16 After first two paid smses at 50p each (Local or National), 100 Local and STD SMS will be FREE, post free usage customer will be charged at 50p/sms. valid for 30 days.

Uninor's first recharge coupons FRC offering extra talktime like Rs 50 recharge offers Rs 55 talktime.
Full talk value on ATM recharge.
Uninor Recharge Table - click here

Talk Unlimited Plan - Uninor Page

[ As I talked to Uninor Care ( 90620 90620 ) on 2nd June, 2010 they did not confirm these packs in Kolkata and WB. ]

Rs 37, Get Uninor to Uninor 2000 local free minutes; local onnet beyond free limit, other local and all STD @49p/min for 30 days.
Rs 38, Get Uninor to Uninor 12,0000 local free seconds; local onnet beyond free limit, other local and all STD @1p/sec for 30 days.
Rs 197, Get Uninor to Uninor 2000 local free minutes, 700 local minutes to other networks; beyond free limit local and all STD @49p/min for 30 days.
Rs 198, Get Uninor to Uninor 12,0000 local free seconds; 700 local minutes to other networks; beyond free limit local and all STD @1p/sec for 30 days.

GPRS - pre-activated on every Uninor connection. NOT AVAILABLE IN KOLKATA AT PRESENT, BUT COMING SOON. Uninor GPRS Page
Base plan offering free unlimited browsing on Facebook, Twitter and Linkedin. Charge on other sites 10p/10kb.

MyConnect 9 - Rs 9/- offers 60 MB for 3 days. 10p/10kb after free usage limit.
MyConnect 90 - Rs 90/- offers 3GB for 30 days. 10p/10kb after free usage limit.

Uninor on Twitter and Facebook.

As per news from Financial Chronicle, David Meneghello, executive vice president (Marketing) told, “We have a state-of-the-art Telenor VAS Lab in Kuala Lumpur. This is like our Asian VAS Lab... working on developing India-centric VAS.”

Just Added: I called Uninor care from my MTS connection, as I could not laid my hands on Uninor SIM. The customer care executive gave me a no. to use in Uninor store for having extra privilege. So I am eager to visit a Uninor store very soon. I am planning to take a Uninor connection with fancy number.

Kolkata Office
Unitech Wireless (East) Pvt. Ltd.
Asyst Park, 6th. Floor,Block GN, Plot-EP 37/1,Sector v,
Salt Lake City, Kolkata - 700 091care@uninor.in

Customer Service Head
Unitech Wireless (Tamil Nadu) Pvt. Ltd
Ground Floor, Masterpiece,
Sector 54, DLF Golf Course Road, (opp Hotel Ibis),
Gurgaon 122002, Haryana, India
Phone 0124-3329000

Read More: How “intelligent” is Uninor’s “Location Based Plan”?
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2010-05-25T07:23:00.001+05:30

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Directed by - Aparna Sen
Written by - Kunal Basu (story)
Starring - Rahul Bose,Raima Sen,Moushumi Chatterjee,Chigusa Takaku , Raima Sen
Music by Sagar Desai
Editing- Rabiranjan Maitra
Release date(s) 9 April 2010
Runtime- 105minutes
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2010-05-21T14:46:00.000+05:30

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Free Social Networking offering from Indian mobile operators

2010-05-19T06:20:00.001+05:30

So Indian mobile operators start a new war - competition is now to offer free access to social networking sites.

Tata Docomo - via Buddynet
Uninor - Free browsing on facebook, Orkut & twitter
Reliance via 0.facebook.com - TelecomTalk Link
Videocon via 0.facebook.com - as per fb sponsered link

This free give away is already in wireless data market when MTS MBlaze starts offering free browsing on Yahoo, Wikipedia, Cricinfo, MakeMyTrip.

India - Mobile Operators

2010-05-16T07:11:00.002+05:30

These is the list of Indian Mobile operators, but instead of putting just their names, I am writing the brands available in market.

GSM Brands
Airtel - website
BSNL (3G)
MTNL (3G)
Aircel
Idea Cellular - website
Tata Docomo - website , twitter , facebook
Reliance GSM / Reliance SMART GSM Services

Uninor website twitter facebook
Loop Mobile - web
S Tel - web
Etisalat DB : Cheers Mobile
Videocon Mobile Services - web
Virgin Mobile [MVNO; Tata Docomo-Virgin Group] - web
Vodafone - web
Talk24 [MVNO;Tata Docomo-Future Group]

CDMA Brands
Reliance CDMA (EVDO)
Tata Indicom (EVDO)
MTS India (EVDO)
MTNL Garuda
Ping Mobile - web
Virgin Mobile (EVDO) [MVNO; Tata Indicom-Virgin Group] - web
BSNL CDMA(EVDO)

Tata Teleservices – Internet Offerings

2010-05-16T06:38:00.001+05:30

Yesterday I visited TTSL’s website to check their Photon+ services. But at the 1st look I got so confused !! So making a made easy for all. I counted internet offerings from Tata, omited TTML’s offerings.

Photon Pro : ADSL 2+ technology, wireline Broadband upto 18Mbps
Photon+ : CDMA EVDO technology, USB Modem, Wireless Broadband upto 3.1 Mbps
Photon Whiz : CDMA 1X technology, USB Modem, wireless internet upto 153kbps
Photon+ on Mobile: EVDO based high speed internet on selected handsets.
Internet from Mobile[CDMA 1X] : On-Mobile Handset internet using Tata Indicom CDMA connection
Internet through Mobile[CDMA 1X]: using your Tata Indicom CDMA handset, internet on PC/laptop
Internet through Walky[CDMA 1X] : using yourTata Walky (wireless landline) , internet on PC/laptop
Broadband from TCL [Tata Communications] : Tata Indicom Broadband
EDGE-GPRS from Tata Docomo(GSM)
GPRS from Virgin Mobile GSM
vLink from Virgin Mobile : same to Photon whiz
vFlash from Virgin Mobile: same to Photon+

Why my Wordpress Venture failed ?

2010-05-16T06:14:00.002+05:30

I am writing for hhtp://Telecomtalk.info for a time, and I found that Wordpress is better than Google Blogger services, but why I am back to bloggger again?

1. I chose a wrong time to move out and make a new blog. I am a occasional blogger, and now-a-days I prefer micoblogging, no picture, no grammar and use of SMS lingo! ... I am on facebook, i can update status on fb by sms! i am on Twitter and Google Buzz too!

2. To get binded with Wordpress, I did nt have more time.

3. I have a moderate visitor in Blogger.

So I am staying to Blogger...... all post published on Wordpress domain will be copy-paste d soon here ! :)

Uninor India - How it is going ?

2010-05-07T14:02:00.008+05:30

Uninor India - website www.uninor.in

A GSM operator in India. JV of Unitech & Telenor. has pan India licence for mobile operations.
* one of the new operator - did not enter in the league of Per second billing.

> 29p/m wth daily Rs 2 or 39p/call
>>
FLOP, coz other operators offering 1p/2sec call rate with Rs 30-45/month. And per second billing is more economical than per minute! with Call Set Up charge, for a call shorter than 1min will be charged 68p! where now standard all India calling charge is 50p/min. To my wonder Uninor has no flat plan without such complications! and note they did nt opt per second!

> blue brigrade to grab rural/suburban customers
>> GOD KNWS HOW WAS REACTION, but these things never worked great in my opinion! are bhai network nahi hai, tariff bakwaas hai, koun lega ?

> Onnet Pack 32 incl 1000 local onnet min
>> 1st GOOD STV,but few takers as base is poor! Onnet offers can be a boon if there is a good customer base, but for sure, couples try these things often ;)

> SMS PACK Rs 24 - 75 all India SMS
>> SUCKS, where Reliance offering GREAT SMS PACKS... Reliance SMS PACK DETAILS

> new customer? get prize in Kereala
>> What a CRAP! Uninor has to offer prizes to grab customers even with their so called 'innovative' tariffs!

> GPRS launch, free SNS, free for 1st few days, 3GB@Rs90
>>1st STIRS the MARKET,but hopefully n/w is poor, sharing with Reliance& speed cud be better due to less congested n/w

>‘Dynamic Pricing’ 24X7 Changing Discount Plan
>>tested n SUCCESSFUL MODEL IN BANGLADESH (GRAMEENPHONE), but COMPLICATED in India. here 1p/2s is alwz bettr than per minute billing. u can call as low as 20p/min, as much as 50p/min

>Unlimited Local Call Plans with FUP
>> GOOD PLAN but offnet pack targets HIGH ARPU users, onnet pack 37/38 is good also. and intros per second billing With these packs local onnet 1.86p/min, local offnet 23p/m - but paying Rs 200 around means targeted to HIGH ARPU users

>Real Customer Real Value Programs in Andhra Pradesh
>> for HIGH ARPU users only. kindda value programs for high APRU users!

BACK TO BLOGGER

2010-05-07T13:58:00.001+05:30

Well my honeymoon with Wordpress did not work out! ... I will explain the things when i get the time.... :)

Bye Bye Blogger

2010-01-15T23:33:00.003+05:30

So after a long time attached to Telecomtalk I feel Blogger is not so good for me! :( So Goodbye Blogger, Welcome Wordpress !

From now Visit me on : http://faltuchelekolkata.wordpress.com/

Have good time !

Rudradeep :)

mail me biswas.rudradeep@gmail.com

Happy New Year 2010

2010-01-01T07:43:00.003+05:30

First of all, Wishing all of you a very very happy new year .........

well when I am posting it, in Kolkata its 7:49AM ...... :) already spent almost 8hours of new year ! and it is not a new now ! :P !!

Uninor - Kolkata launch

2009-12-13T12:58:00.003+05:30

Kolkata is a important place for real esate group Unitech. And I guess this metro is also important for Uninor, cheapest metro over nation - Kolkata needs special care. MTS did excellent tariff offer for Kolkata. Msaver95(local @1p/2s, std 1p/s for lifetime) is only for Kolkata !!!!

Uninor Kolkata office

Unitech Wireless (Kolkata) Pvt. Ltd.
Unitech Wireless Victoria Park
Plot No 37/2, Block GN, Sector V
Saltlake Electronics Complex
Saltlake
Kolkata - 700091

Some source saying Uninor signal is ready over Sector V area of Saltlake. So I guess Uninor coming soon. But probably in January,2010 Orissa will get Uninor. Kolkata will get Uninor in February !

Per second calling - how good is it ?

2009-12-13T12:47:00.003+05:30

Recently Uninor has rolled out GSM services with no second-billing which is a Tata-Docomo-set industry norm. Uninor said per-second billing(PSB) is not for all.

yes that's right , PSB is not for all. while earlier most operators offer onnet free calling @ 20p-5p/min , such offers are withdrawn. So for those make longer calls is now paying 60p/min (1p/sec) if opted PSB. Well Tata Docomo, MTS, Aircel, Idea have come with Rs30-Rs 45 STV for local calling @ 1p/2s.

Now PSB coming with lifetime validity or 1 yr validity. But my point is not that. I am not talking on cheaper STV with longer validity. It is fact STD calling is dropped to 50p/min due to Reliance. and Over India SMS rate is also 1p/sms ! but there is not much drop in local calling. It is ranging between 60p/min - 72p/min for Airtel, Vodafone! While Tata Docomo, Aircel, Idea cuts local calls @ 1p/2s for Rs 45 per month ! that's not cheap !!!

So what do you see? there's still a place to drop local calls. As termination charge is 20p/min so I guess local calls could be 25p/min ! MTS Kolkata MSAVER95 which offers local calls @ 1p/2s (=30p/min) is alright. 'coz PSB must be costlier than PMB(per minute billing).

what do you say ?

Cheapest Tariffs in Kolkata Mobile Market

2009-12-12T17:16:00.004+05:30

Voice Calls:

option 1 for long calls - Tata Indicom PAY PER CALL @ Re1/10min ; daily rental Re1

option 2 for shorter calls & no daily rental : MTS Msaver Rs95 for all local calls@ 1p/2s , STD @1p/sec lifetime offer

option 3 for STD calling: Get Simply Reliance (gsm/cdma) plan @ 50p/min & 50p/sms (loc/std/roamin) , lifetime offer

or Virgin Mobile lifetime offer @Rs30(as I found in my area) - V2V 15p,V2O 30p [loc], std 50p roaming Re1/Rs1.50 as usual !

# local&STD calling> MTS is best as it is per second billing. but roamin charge is best on Reliance Simply50 Plan !

SMS charge:

Reliance rocks here with 1p/SMS with Rs 11 or take Rs30 pack for unlimited SMS for 1 month

MTS SMS pack for daily rental Re1, get 100 local & national SMS everyday !

GPRS PACK:

Aircel beats all - Pocket Internet @ Rs98 unlimited (PC/Mobile use)

BSNL monthly Rs 230 works well if you stay in 3G enable areas, and use 3G n/w from n/w selection from your 3G handset menu !

Reliance also comes with Rs 299 - 2 GB/month ! :)

----------------------------------------------------------------------

what is my choice?

MTS- call/sms

Aircel- mobile internet

Tariff War : How Airtel Reacts

2009-12-06T12:55:00.004+05:30

Tariff War is going on in India's wireless market and see how Airtel reacts to 'Mobile Tariff War' in recent times. (Using Kolkata circle's tariff)

In June 2009: Rs 102 STV offers all local calls @60p/min for 180 days

In September 2009: Rs 41 STV offers all local calls @50p/min for 1 yr.

In October 2009: Rs 64 STV offers all onnet local&STD calls @1p/sec and all offnet local&STD calls @1.2p/sec for 1 yr. (i.e. 60p/min onnet and 72p/min offnet !)

In November 2009: Rs 54 offers all local&STD calls @50p/min for 1 yr

In December 2009: Rs32 offers all local&STD calls @50p/min for 1 yr

So Airtel's trend is reduction in STV values & increase in tariff validity but no drastic reduction of tariff.

Airtel told that they will not response to tariff war, yes they don't. Bcz call rate/sms rate is still high on Airtel. While Reliance offers 1p/sms (local/national/on roaming) for monthly commitment of Rs11, Airtel charges Re1 for local & Rs1.50 for national sms ! But Airtel had to roll out Per-Second billing & slashed roaming rate also just to match others(Read Tata DocoMo & Reliance)! I guess if Reliance was not there, Indian Telecom market would not be like now! and Tata DocOMo did roll outPay-As-You-Use tariffs.

But see now local & STD call rate is same, so reduction in STD calls only , but local call rate still has space to be cut down ! Well MTS reached a bottom with 1p/2sec with Rs30/month and/or Rs95 for lifelong ! Termination charge is 20p/min , if it is lowered down, tariff will be more cheaper !

3G is Coming: Notes on Handset features

2009-12-04T23:34:00.003+05:30

India got the taste of 3G mobile technology from MTNL and BSNL. Both of these telcos are Govt-owned, hence PSU. While MTNL is good in Mumbai & Delhi, BSNL in Kolkata metro is not that good. So I am waiting for private players to enter 3G market, and worst part is 3G auctioning is just like Khuror Kol of Sukumar Ray, It is just not happening out !!
I am waiting for private players' 3G, reason mainly is BSNL's pathetic service in Kolkata, and in my area BSNL has no 3G coverage. And most importantly I don't have a BSNL mobile connection and neither wana take one !
However I am moving beside the topic. I am here to post on 3G standards on Mobile handsets.
Please note for GSM, data services are on different technology like this :
WAP > GPRS > EDGE > 3G UMTS(2Mbps) > 3G HSPA(3.6Mbps) > 7.2Mbps > 10.2Mbps >21Mbps
that's it , when you buy a 3G handset have a look for UMTS or HSPA.

UNINOR STARTS GSM SERVICES IN INDIA

2009-12-03T23:57:00.008+05:30

Unitech Wireless, the joint televenture of India's real estate giant Unitech Group and Norway-based world's 6th largest telecom firm Telenor rolls out its GSM service under Uninor brand in 7 circles of India. Uninor is launched in Andra Pradesh, Bihar & Jharkhand, Tamilnadu & Chennai, Karnataka, Kerala, Uttar Pradesh (East & West). "The largest single day launch in telecom history.", as quoted in Twitter by Uninor guys.

Uninor enters India as 15th telecom brand, after Vodafone, Airtel, BSNL, MTNL, Loop Mobile, Idea Cellular, Reliance CDMA, Tata Indicom, Aircel, Reliance GSM, Virgin Mobile, MTS India, Tata DoCoMo, Ping Mobile. So Uninor is India's 10th GSM operator.

Uninor prepaid SUK comes for Rs 49 with lifetime validity and Rs 5 talktime. Uninor is giving bonus on 1st recharge, for eg, Recharge with Rs 50,100,150 and get talkvalue of Rs 55,115,175.

Interestingly, Uninor does not follow the per-second billing, Tata Docomo-set industry's new norm, "Per-second billing is not the only feature that subscribers are looking at".

Uninor offers 2 plans - for those calls longer and for those who makes more calls. And these plans are quite confusing to understand.

Plan 1: TalkLonger

Local calls @ 29p/min; STD calls @49p/min

here the story is for a call you have to pay 39p extra, for eg: if you talk for 10 min, you have to pay (10X29+ 39 )p= 329p. Similar for STD calls. To be brief, you have to pay (39+29)=68p for the first minute of any call(of any duration) and from the second minute it's just 29p/min. So if your habit is to call longer, opt it !

Plan 2: CallMore

local calls @29p/min; STD calls @49p/min

here the story is Daily Rental Rs.2 is applicable. To choose this plan simply dial *222*8*1# from your uninor mobile.

SMS Rates on both Plans:

Local SMS 10p, U2U free 100 local SMS/day, while 1st offnet SMS everyday will be charged at 99p and therefore 10p. Nationa SMS is as high as Rs1.49

Points to be noted before you rushed to pick a new SIM:

No SMS pack compared to Tata DoCoMo(100 or more local & national sms free after 1st 2 charged daily)/Reliance (1p/SMS, be it local,national or you are roaming)
No cheaper Onnet calling pack
GPRS is not launched like DoCoMo came with GPRS.
#

Will I opt Uninor when it comes to Kolkata?

If uninor comes with such tariff, my answer is no! I am using MTS and Airtel now, and MTS Mcard95 gives me 1p/2s for all local calls and 1p/s STD calling for lifetime and SMSpack is worth of daily Re1 for 100 local & national SMS ! so no question about opting such tariff !

** Uninor Kolkata launch: February-March 2010

Watch the latest Uninor ads at http://www.uninor.in/TvAds/default.aspx

ADDITION #1

# From The Telegraph India - Telenor plans are basically of higher tariffs

Analysts said the tariff plans were more expensive compared with other operators.

“Although local call rates are 29 paise, there is an additional fee which takes the total cost of a call to around 70 paise per minute, which is higher than some operators who are charging 30-60 paise per minute.”

Justifying the high tariff plans, Telenor Group CEO Jon Fredrik Baksaas said, “Our target market is mid-to-high- end customers.”

Telenor is also staying away from the per-second billing plan that most operators have recently announced. “Per-second billing is not necessarily a feature customers are looking for,” he said.

(Taken from http://www.telegraphindia.com/1091204/jsp/business/story_11820485.jsp)

ADDITION #2

Now from my side something to write down

Uninor said their target is mide-to-high-end customers, I am guessing Uninor targeting mid & high ARPU users. But why high users will move to a newcomer, whether it is coming from world's 6th largest operator. Rather high-end users will stick to reliable old Airtel or Vodafone.[ in Mumbai Indicom/Idea/Loop also serves well !] Moreover Uninor doesn't intend to bid for either the 3G or broadband wireless access spectrum, expected to be auctioned in January 2010. So if you use GPRS/EDGE now, you can't get better and faster internet on mobile in future from Uninor. Earlier Uninor officials told they will not intensify tariff war, and they do so.

Uninor has targeted to achieve 8% market share by 2018 and EBITDA break-even in 3 years, and operating cash flow break-even in 5 years. So they are not aggressive with this operation.

But India's wireless market is to get more operator - pan India basis, Loop & Videocon and Etisalat & Batelco-owned Stel to be launched in some circles. While two global players yet to be launched tariff has to reduce more in some ways.

Medianama report says: "Uninor may have officially launched its services, but we get the feeling it hasn’t shown all its cards yet "

ADDITION #3

Hope this is last edit, I did visit Telenor Global website - www.Telenor.com , there is a seperate India operation section - http://www.telenor.com/en/news-and-media/in-focus/india/

On the launch of Uninor in India, the press release says:

“Ab mera number hai”

Uninor will leverage from Telenor Group’s established marketing and design framework. As in several other markets where the Telenor Group is present, the brand follows Telenor’s brand strategy, combining the global position of the Telenor Group with a distinct local identity. Uninor’s tagline is “Ab mera number hai” or “My time is now”, set to target the young and ambitious individuals.

With this high tariff how they are targeting youth ! I have nothing left to comment !

my moVies liSt

2009-12-02T11:57:00.001+05:30

hi guys this is MY MOVIE LIST.

have a look how many movies I have downloaded from net. a small no. are also ripped/re-ripped by myself also !! ...

i will edit this file regularly ! ..

http://docs.google.com/Doc?docid=0ASwGBnMoG4CpZGNxOTRqMmZfNmNzMnpqemZr&hl=en

ANTAHEEN DVDRIP -700& 1400MB RIP, BEST QUALITY

2009-11-14T23:55:00.005+05:30

So Antaheen DVDs r out for sale .... and as well DVD-Rips r also out. from DDR(Digital Desi Releaser) [I am not sure should I mention ripper's name, however on BWtorrents & Banglatorrents he is known as Debpk77] we have 2CD & 1CD rips, best of quality as usual.

Though 2CD rip (size 1400MB approx)is available only on Torrents, I have 1CD rip mediafire links:

http://www.mediafire.com/?sharekey=a08185862d6f5cd4ab1eab3e9fa335cab9c64259d50f2045

(thanks to http://bengalidownload.8.forumer.com/)

IF YOU ARE A MEMBER OF BWTORRENTS OR BANGLATORRENTS - GET ANTAHEEN 1400MB RIP FROM HERE :

BWTORRENTS LINK > http://www.bwtorrents.com/showthread.php?t=244230

BANGLATORRENTS LINK > http://www.banglatorrents.com/bangla-movies-main/15647-antaheen-dvd-rip-1400mb-divx-ac3-ddr.html

FOR SCREENSHOTS: VISIT BWTORRENTS LINK.

use jDownloader (http://jdownloader.org/home/index), to download one by one in a batch. when JD will analize the mediafire's single link which is given above,it will extract 8 segmented RAR files. Download all parts and with winRAR extract it.

~~THiS iS p2P ShAREiNG, hope nobody will ask me REGARDING THE LINK/RIP~~

Lockerz is down !

2009-10-01T09:41:00.004+05:30

Lockerz is down, as I found on Oct 1st, 2009 at 9:30 AM IST.

It says :

"Site off-line

The site is currently not available due to technical problems. Please try again later. Thank you for your understanding."

I attached a screenshot of the page as shown. Probably the site is getting ready for its out-of-beta real launch, and more stocking ! :)

In the mean time, just be informed I sent them a mail regarding some confusions. they replied very soon :

" Thank you for contacting us. Please understand that Lockerz is still in the beta/testing phase of the site. The reason that we cannot yet ship internationally is because we did not expect to have such a large amount of international members before our official launch in October. There are many rules and regulations that a company must follow when dealing with the shipment of free prizes outside of the US. Lockerz has to make sure that we comply with these regulations before we can ship legally.

We still need to determine an official list of countries that we can legally ship to. We also aren't sure yet if any members will have to pay taxes on their deliveries. All of these details will be figured out in the next couple weeks and Lockerz will post notifications on the site for our members! The announcement will be made within the next week.

We welcome international members and encourage them to begin earning PTZ and saving up for the time when we can ship internationally, which will be mid-October. Lockerz thanks you for your patience in this matter.

Thanks for being so passionate about Lockerz! "

Hope this copy-n-paste job will help you to understand and believe on Lockerz !

!DEA coming to Kolkata on 12th October ....

2009-09-30T06:52:00.003+05:30

Red dominated Mobile sector of Kolkata is going to get a new color - yellow from IDEA CELLULAR ! News published on Bengali daily, ABP confirms that !

no plan details has been unfolded till. Call their customer care 9088012345 which is live.

check out if your area is out of IDEA's yellow coverage - search in your GSM mobile for networks 405 848 is IDEA Kolkata and 405 853 is IDEA WestBengal.

so on 12/10/09 get a new IDEA connection to enjoy diwali , as you can wish to make calls cheaper !!

Lockerz ?

2009-09-30T06:07:00.003+05:30

I knew about Lockerz from Orkut's 'BSNL Broaband And EVDO/3G' community. They tagged it as 'Internet's new obsession'. So I managed to get a invitation for Lockerz . !

What is lockerz ? I am writing the things which I understand.

here you can earn points (PTZ) and then redeem goodies.
here you can earn PTZ for doing anything - watching/downloading/uploading stuffs - well that was told to me, as the site is still in its beta, most of the sections are not working out. The whole site will be live on October, 2009
sign up - get PTZ, everyday log in get PTZ, invite your friends, they join in - get PTZ, answer daily questions - get PTZ - its simple !
Shipment of goodies - still its to US only, from October 15,2009 they will start international shipments . I guess and hope shipments will be free !
At present, as on 30.09.2009 I can not redeem anything as most items are 'fresh out'. ok they are telling that they will restock soon !

From Lockerz.com : (on about Lockerz)

"Lockerz is the place to go to buy the coolest stuff at the lowest prices, watch exclusive video, discover new music, play the hottest games, hang out with your friends - and get rewarded for just about EVERYTHING you do on the site.

Our mission is to be your daily habit, not a site for your parents or grandparents looking for their long-lost friends from Kindergarten.

One other thing you'll love about Lockerz are PTZ (or "Pointz"). PTZ are Lockerz' proprietary loyalty "currency" that you earn whenever you buy, watch, play, share, invite friends, or even just show up on Lockerz. Redeem PTZ at the PTZ Place for incredible prizes, great products and dream experiences.

Too Good to Be True? Why are we doing this? To thank you for joining early. To build a Lockerz community of cool, stylish, cutting-edge people who love to buy great brands. To give you a taste of how PTZ will work when we go live this fall. And to test out different prizes and PTZ levels. That’s key. This version of PTZ Place is a test. PTZ levels will change when the full Lockerz site launches.

Lockerz is set to launch sometime in the Fall 09. Members who sign up now will get to explore and help shape the site before the launch. We hope you'll join us."

Read Lockerz's FAQ: http://www.lockerz.com/faq

Lockerz's T&Cs : http://www.lockerz.com/terms

So feeling Lockerz is exciting ~ email me : biswas.rudradeep@gmail.com to get a lockerz invitation !

শুভ বিজয়া

2009-09-28T12:33:00.000+05:30

শুভ বিজয়ার প্রীতি শুভেচ্ছা ও ভালোবাসা...

Per Second Pulse hits India

2009-09-03T07:30:00.009+05:30

So after Tata DoCoMo's Per Second Pulse hits hard to Indians, everyone is trying to follow this trend.

Aircel in Kolkata took it to new and existing customers, free of cost. (some sources telling its pan India offer )

Negative Impact: you can't enjoy any other STVs.

Tata Indicom in Mumbai, Maharashtra and Goa offers same for 60 days for Rs61 STV.

BSNL and Vodafone also introduces second pulse in some circles. BSNL is going to offer it on its all circles due to Docomo success - added maximum customers in August '09 !

already there Indicom offers day-night local calling @ 50p & 25p respectively.

Well a long time before, when Indicom was a kid in Indian Mobile Industry started same thing - I can remember my dad using Tata Indicom @ 3p/second pulse. Off course that time call rate was higher w.r.t. now. Have a look to Tata Indicom's second pulse : http://www.tata.com/company/releases/inside.aspx?artid=+ebGsrpQpwQ= , which was withdrawn later.

As Indicom withdrew it, I guessed Docomo may withdrawn it. To add to my belief, Docomo noted as Tariff could be changed as per TRAI or their wishes. Well the note is withdrawn. But fact is second pulse on its second occasion is here to stay and makes operators think about it. ! Docomo acting like a godfather, everyone is following it !

Virus Problem - how did I get rid of ?

2009-08-24T04:41:00.004+05:30

Having a virus means problem ! whether it's flu virus or computer virus ! but anyway my article is on computer virus !
recently i faced two computer viruses - one is virut on my PC, and 2nd one is sality on my friend's pc.

both of them were detected by avast! AV scanner, as most of us using avast home/pro version for basic computing. but the fact is avast is not the best AV , rather it's best AV as freeware.

win32.virut or win32.sality have some common features - corrupt the .exe files. Deleting these infected files by ur antivirus means ur system gets unstable and u r forced to format ur XP. but as th contaminated most of the '.exe's on ur machine , if u store setups of various programs and run them to install programs after u format & reinstall XP . the infection comes back !! sometimes infection returns even from System Volume Information or Recycled folder - which is a hidden folder on each partition. and avast fails. even one of my fav virus cleaner combofix did nt work out !

virus does increase the size of the .exe files - just like laying eggs by houseflies ! and avast detects it as virus.
there are viruses hidden mostly in the folder of C:/Windows or C:/windows/system32 or C:/windows/system32/drivers
try to kill it via Safemode or using Window Washer(ww), run WW for 'free space washing' for deleting virus contaminated files in System Volume Information or Recycled folder. u should take a look what is running in background - use Process explorer.

the best antivirus to get rid of such infection on ur PC, is KASPERSKY ! it can heal the files ! this is the best part, which avast can't offer ! well KAV is not free, but u can try it for 30 days and to activate trial u need active internet connection or go for piracy - get new licenses as they appear on torrent sites.

*my post was made in hurry, but the conclusion is here : use kaspersky antivirus, as it works best on a moderate resourced PC ! best part is it will heal all files and make u back to work !

UPDATE One of my friends runs a cyber cafe, and as usual his WinXP-powered computers hit by a virus attack, though I am not sure that was virus or spyware. But that disabled Kaspersky Antivirus. I also checked on Task Manager some unwanted .exe files are running from C:/Documents and Settings/User/App Data/Temp [this may be wrong as I am currently on Win7]. I told him to go format way.

But for home computers, you can check out this helpline- BleepingComputer, it offers ComboFix.exe which saves my ass many times while I was WinXP.

Kolkata Mobile Arena - a view on August

2009-08-09T13:29:00.002+05:30

[the article says my personal experience - i did not follow any database. rather try to follow the recent trend of market . ]

1st let me straight point out who are operating mobile telephony in Kolkata, Vodafone, Airtel, BSNL, Reliance (CDMA & GSM) , Aircel , Tata Indicom (cdma), Virgin Mobile (cdma), MTS India (cdma) are here.

here, vodafone owns maximum customers, USP of Vodafone is good netwrk and moderate tariff. Second is Airtel , offers services just like Vodafone; just 5-10 rupees plus minus ! but both of them r on best mobile netwrk and at the same time costlier than other !!

Aircel is getting good no. of customers coz of its Ratecutters, Aircel2Aircel calls@10p ! Oops netwrk often jammed up !

Reliance cdma & tata indicom is under risk ! Reliance cdma's jaadu pack for all loc @50p for onetime 555 and 60p all loc for Rs 444 was a big flop ! virgin is another flop story along wth indicom, here people understand what means 1st 3 calls charged and then reduced call rate - a daily rental on consumer !

Reliance Smart GSM service - hw bad its ntwrk u cant guess if u dnt use it !! it rolled out services in kolkata before aircel came in town, and still its too bad for customers, well Smart's 35p all local for a starter kit worth Rs 50 worked out, but people are moving out as soon as the offer goes offline after 1st 6months !

BSNL - another loser in landlines , airtel n tata walky worked well in PCO business ! bsnl landlines are still the best one one can have even work under powe failure. and u need bsnl broadband u need landlines, as bsnl broadband is on dsl technolgy. watever bsnl broardband is still best in kolkata & suburban as airtel/tata/reliance do not penetrate the whole kolkata pincode area. well bsnl mobile sucks in a lot of way, sms delivery, high default call rate (Rs1.40) for liftime customers, need 2 recharge a 200 recharge to maintain lifetime and withdrawal of sms pack and then reintroducing it, but retails often dnt know bsnl's offers ! and netwrk congestion is there ofcourse.

now come to latest entrant in kolkata- that's MTS India, a joint venture between Russia's Sistema & India' Shyam Gr. MTS's offers are unmatched and attractive ! they have two offers to lure kolkatans - Rs 499 & Rs 99 ! most people are attrctd to MSaver99 as it's one-time power card to offer you calls to all local mobiles(MTS, nonMTS) at just 30p/min! this is awesome offer and as days go people taking this scheme, and come to MSaver 499, this is also one-time power card to offer 100000 mins free MTS-2-MTS, as 150min/day along with 10 sms/day to all local numbers. THis 499 card is bettr than any Gang/Club offer ! if u calculate u will find upto 2027 mid u can use this talkvalue, that means MTS 2 MTS is for almost lifelong ! .... and as cdma operator they brings cheaper handsets.
MTS network on kolkata is good enough for a new operator and its customer care is also good, as per my personal experiences ! ... however there is a problem with SMS sending & receiving, may be coz of its cdma and can send 160 characters at one throw ! negative point: no data usage scheme from MTS still !!

**lowest tariff in kolkata from aircel, STV 47, offers 25p/min to all loc calls after 1st 2 min (1st min - Rs1, 2nd min 50p) everyday; it means u need to spend [47+{(.75+.25)x30}] =Rs 97 per month to get local calls at 25p/min ! so you see who is cheaper. MTS is clear winner here.

a lot of people is now using MTS along with old operator, if MTS offers stay till MNP comes in, all will be burnt out !

Now look at the future : tata docomo,gsm venture of tatas is coming soon, probbaly in august and b4 puja season in kolkata idea cellular is planned to have a grand launch here, coming december Unitech may be here !! i feel after MTS, all r late . tata docomo's USP is per second pulse, i.e. 60p/min , MTS is better here too!

there r certains rules for new operators
> cheaper tariff for 1st 2/3/6/12 months
> cheaper tariff is applicable on own &other ntwrk !

MTS follws both rules ! and if sky is the limit, MTS reaches the limit !
soon we will find docomo & idea's business strategy to beat MTS , let MNP come, tariff will b more attractive , remember 30p = $ 0.00625.

have nice calling.....

kolkata r kichu chobi

2009-07-22T02:25:00.002+05:30

twitter e recently join korechi , tarpor theke ei blogger e blog likhte ar echhe kore na. jai hok ei rokom bangla phonetics follow kore blog likhchi karon Bollu da r blog dekhe ami khub udbudhho ! thank u bhollu da . bhollu da r blog - Chinepotka

asole bangali hoe english e blog likhleo setay thik mon khule kotha bola jai na! tai thik korlam ebar theke kichu blog ei style-i likhbo, se keu comment dik ba na dik.......

by the way ami ekta Chinese handset peyechi , r chupi chupi boli etar kintu kono IMEI no nei, ar operator-o amake kono alert ba warn deyni, tai ke r khete khute fancy market e giye azad electronics er khoj kore , ei bes valo achi ........ jai hok ei handset tai ekta khub-valo-na 2MP camera ache, max resolution oti kom ,sunle tomra hasbe matro 640x480 ! jai hok seta diye ei ko din e cholte cholte bes kichu cholonto kolkata-r photo tulechi , kono tai valo noi but still worth to share.

well amar 1st foto ta holo howrah bridger foto, jodio bridge er samanyo-i dekha jachhe, foto ta tulechilam amar bondhu der paying guest er floor theke - vanga kache r janla, dhure just dekha jachhe howrah bridge. chobi ta dekhe bes valo laglo bolei tulechilam.

2nd foto ta pure fazlami ! keu keu bolbe ichore paka ! jai hok amader college eo ekta ei rokom machine ache, seta onek er mote achol . kintu ami ebong amar somo-manoshikota purno kichu sohopathi (dekhle thik bangla tai berie gelo , classmate lekhar kotha moneo aseni) ei jontro tike try kore dekhechilam. in brief 3 ti belun 5 takay mele ! ebar foto tar biboron e asi , tulechilam kakurgachir kache.. CIT road dhore ultadanga r dike hat-te thakun,je pare fire station ache - se pare ei machine tike dekhte paben, orkut eo upload korechi eta, kintu keu comment deini - sudhu school er ek sir amake scrap kore sudhu bolechen : onek somoy tola foto theke manus er mon naki bojha jai. er mane korte jaben na, even seta korar kotha vabao paap !

oh by the way ihar nam holo - JOSH SPOT

3rd foto ta holo taal gach ek paye darie, maniktola ESI hospital chottore ei taal gach tir obosthan.

4th foto ta kichu patha der nie jara kichukhon pore jobai hobe r ami-apni tar mangso (ranna kora) khabo! oboshyo oi patha gulo-i khete hobe tar kono mane nei, je jar parar bazar er kata patha kineo khete paren kono apotti nei ..

ponchom chobi ta holo - jhal muri. amra ki bari te eto kichu die jhal muri banie khan ? question ta apna kei korchi , agye haan !

6th er bangla ekta ache, kichu seta english e ki vabe likhbo seta vebei kichu ta time gelo - then caption ta ki debo vabchi hotat nam dite echhe korlo - oi je pulis jachhe .. tulechilam belgachia flyover theke amader college jete jete - r oi je amader college ta dekha jachhe (emergency building left side-e r academic ta right side e)

ok nischoi khub bore hoyechen , ei tai last . tulechilam titagarh e darie - ekta auto r foto - kolkatay sobuj r kalo auto chole - eti nil ! obosyo foto ta tolar ager rong nie matha gamai ni- pore computer e foto ta nie dekhlam nil ronger auto - sei adi o puraton color ja ami chotobela theke dekhe aschi , asole barrackpore ba titagarh ekhono kolkata hoini to !

aj ei porjontoi .... valo thakben !

tata docomo - prepaid plan - brief up

2009-06-27T03:45:00.007+05:30

this post is made to brief up tata docomo's prepaid plan

launched in TN, Kerala and Orissa

Coming to AP and Karnataka soon

prepaid starter
Rs 49 lifetime SIM comes with Rs 5 talktime
# to continue lifetime connection, minimum sum up recharge should be Rs 100 in 180 days

tariff:
local calls 1p/sec
std 2p/sec
* std 1p/sec for limited period as intro offer (all circles)

ISD tariff - http://tatadocomo.com//prepaid-isd-tariffs.aspx

sms (160 characters)
local - Rs 0.60*
national Rs 1.20
international Rs 5

* in TN after first 3 SMSs local 750 sms/day free (promo offer)

GPRS : 1p/1kb, on roaming 10p/10kb

Roaming- National Roaming

incoming/outgoing to local - Re 1/min
STD Rs 1.5/min

Free missed call alert
free voice mail service - 'ACT VM' to 121

paper top up - 10.20.50.100 ; Processing Fee[pf] is Rs 2

echarge upto rs 100, pf rs 2 is applicable; over 100rs topup no pf, eg rs 101 recharge get rs 91.6 talktime

how to recharge - *135*2* <16digit> #

VAS
24 hour Music channel: Call 543213. - 2p/sec
Caller tune - 15/song; rs 30/30day subscription, call 543215@2p/sec
VoiceChat Service: Call 543216 - 2p/sec

STVs:
Rs 25 - local docomo2docomo 1p/2sec (=30p/min) - 30days /90days (in Orissa only)
Rs 30 - 600 loc/nat sms - 30days (NOT in TN)
Rs 49 -free 500min d2d for 30days (NOT in TN.Kerala)

* Kerala intro offer - Gulf (UAE, Saudi Arabia, Bahrain, Kuwait, Yemen) @12p/sec

Instant Balance and Validity Enquiry : call 12525 or dial *111#
Customer Service 121

Before the Rain comes....

2009-06-22T00:58:00.004+05:30

this is my 1st beng-eng blog .......

amar chobi tolar sokh bohudin agei chilo, kintu digicam na hole amar moto amature er pokkhe photo tola sombhob noi, tai nikon er S210 camera ta kine bes kichu photo tulechi, tar bes kichu orkut e upload korao ache, Google earth eo ache kichu ... to blog e keno na ?

ei photo blog ta holo rain nie ... brishti asar age ...

apatato duto photo mone hochhe bes valo blog e add korar jonno ......... besi kotha r bolchi na, dekhe comment korle amar valo lagbe ...

Please comment on my photos ..........

Websites of Indian Mobile Operators

2009-06-21T22:06:00.001+05:30

Enlisting India's mobile operator's websites..........

Airtel : http://airtel.in/

Aircel : http://aircel.com/

Vodafone : http://vodafone.in/Vodafone/main.aspx

BSNL : http://bsnl.in/

MTNL : http://www.mtnl.net.in/

MTS India (Sistema- Shyam): http://www.mtsindia.in/

Tata Indicom : http://www.tataindicom.com/

Tata DoCoMo : http://tatadocomo.com/

Virgin Mobile : http://www.virginmobile.in/

Reliance Mobile : http://www.rcom.co.in/webapp/Communications/rcom/index.jsp

Idea Cellular : http://www.ideacellular.com/IDEA.portal

Loop Mobile : http://www.loopmobile.in/

Ping Mobile (HFCL) : http://pingmobile.in/

405 036 is TATA GSM, not IDEA

2009-06-14T17:35:00.002+05:30

On my 12th June post, i said IDEA CELLULAR is the next GSM operator coming to Kolkata. But in a reply to TelecomTalk.info one user says IND 036 is tata gsm as seen in his mobile. other source is http://www.42it.eu/Mobile_Systems/SMS/Coverage/India/ which also says 405 036 is Tata GSM, ie Tata DoCoMo.

SORRY for the WRONG INFORMATION :(

But strange thing is Tata Tele said their GSM service will roll in south states and then western and nothern India, they did not mention about launch in eastern zone, at the same time Indiatimes report ( http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/Kolkata-/New-players-may-lower-mobile-call-rates-from-Pujas/articleshow/4537001.cms )saying idea planned to come to kolkata in puja time.

but idea network is not ready even, it's sure the testing network active over kolkata is Tata GSM !

!DEA Coming to Kolkata

2009-06-12T22:07:00.006+05:30

MY INFO GIVEN HERE IS WRONG AS 405 036 is TATA GSM's NETWORK ACTIVE OVER KOLKATA. READ HERE 405 036 is TATA GSM, not IDEA.

After Airtel, Vodafone, Reliance (CDMA), BSNL, Tata Indicom (CDMA), Reliance Smart (GSM), Aircel , Virgin Mobile and last one MTS India (CDMA) came to Kolkata as mobile operators one after another.

Now question is who is the next ? is it Idea Cellular or Unitech Wireless or Tata-DoCoMo GSM service? But it's sure that next one is not going to be a CDMA player, next will be a GSM player, for last 3 weeks if you search network manually on your GSM phone, you will find a new one IND 036 or 405 036.

INA 31/ 404 31 - Airtel

INA COMMAND / 404 30 - Vodafone /HUTCH

INA 81 - CELLONE

INA 91/ 404 91 - AIRCEL

INA 83/ 404 83 - RELIANCE (SMART GSM SERVICE)

Though Tata-DoCoMo has been launched, I guess this new one is Idea. B'coz Idea planned to be launched in Kolkata during Durga Puja Eve to get more attention from Kolkatans.

Unitech has no news on when it will roll out its service and Tata DoCoMo will be in Kolkata end of '09 or start of '10.

So Idea Cellular will be city's 6th GSM ........ hope to get more attractive offers from it!!

Tata DoCoMo - what does it mean ?

2009-06-11T22:15:00.013+05:30

NTT DoCoMo is a leading telecom operator in Japan. ( Wiki & Official )

It bought 26% stake in Tata Tele's GSM venture under dual licence policy. Well there was a discussion about the *JV's brand name. Now it has been anounced that this new GSM operator's brand name is Tata DoCoMo. (visit the home page clicking the link)

* JV= joint venture

But do you know what does 'DoCoMo' mean really?

The name is officially an abbreviation of the phrase, "do communications over the mobile network", and is also from a phrase dokodemo, meaning "everywhere" in Japanese. {from Wiki}

Do you know how to write NTT DoCoMo in Japanese ?

株式会社エヌ・ティ・ティ・ドコモ (chances r there u can't see it properly) :) :) :p

Tata Docomo will be rolling out its services over India, Southern states get this new GSM operator 1st, then We will have it in Eastern India also. As resources saying, Kolkata can get Tata Docomo in October-December this year. Cheers, another new operator = cheaper& attractive tariffs.

3 Visitor Counters Added to RDB's Blog

2009-06-08T20:11:00.005+05:30

On 6th June,2009 i installed another visitor counter to my blog !

1st such widget i added was FEEDJIT - real traffic feed : it shows recent visitors of my blog, their arrival and departure along with their country.

2nd one is visitor counter from StatCounter : it shows total visitors of my blog.

3rd and last one is from Flag Counter ;i added this one to see country wise total visitors.

the links added here, from those u can go those sites to add such visitor counters to ur website/blog!

Opera Browser - irrelevant post

2009-06-04T02:24:00.008+05:30

I am a Opera fan !

Opera homepage : www.opera.com

Opera Orkut Active Community

Top Opera News : click

Opera-USB

Opera Community

On 28. April 2009 Opera celebrated its 15th birthday ..... Read here

i am a late wisher kiddo !

recently i got a look on a website - Browser choice for Enterprises, have a look :

these pointsystem is done by me!

All Browser related topic : FavBrowser

And its June 03, We got Opera 10 Beta 1 !!

and this is the end of the story ..... yeah i know this is my most irrelevant out-of-mind post !

just see if u like it !

MTS Kolkata - from my view

2009-05-24T17:51:00.019+05:30

So, Kolkata has 4th CDMA mobile operator launched. it's MTS India. It launched in Kolkata on 21th May, 2009.

I posted 2 articles on 'MTS launching in Kolkata' Read here :

link 1: MTS India is going to be Kolkata's 1st Phase-II Operator posted on 27th March, 2009

(Read it for details of MTS, a JV between Indian Shyam Telelink and Russian Sistema)

link 2: MTS ad in Kolkata for 1st time posted on 19th May,2009

Why am I posting the old news of MTS started service in kolkata, main reason is I took MTS connection, so i thought to post with all details of MTS. that's why this delay. in this post i am goin to discuss all things -plan details and its benefits etc etc.

MTS India - website ; Kolkata Page ; Kolkata Launch Press Release - PDF

MTS Prepaid plan (No Postpaid is there now)

* Pulse rate: 60sec

* Lifelong condition Minimum of Rs. 200 Top-Up over a period of 6 months.

This lifetime prepaid plan is cheapest with respect to any operators in Kolkata, only comparable offer comes from R-Com CDMA which needs Rs 555 Jadu pack to call all locals @ 50p/min.

But they are not selling the SIM alone (FYI none do so, Tata Indicom, Reliance Mobile CDMA or Virgin Mobile), the CDMA factor working here, so if you wana take MTS connection you have to shell out over 1000 bucks. in Kolkata they r offering 2 handsets - one Samsung and one ZTE (I bought last one 'coz ZTE set looks better than Samsung one) - no Huwaei handset comes here - Check MTS Kolkata Handset page. The Samsung superstar costs 1200/- and ZTE C339 costs 1000/- along with free SIM with lifetime validity(which costs Rs 49/- actually). Don't expect hi-fi handset at this price, so these are very basic handsets. and using a chinese GSM-CDMA dual handset, i find best voice clarity when calling.

Now come to Msavers (STVs, actually):

MSaver499 pack for local 10,00,000min free MTS 2 MTS call as 150min/day and 10SMS/day to all network
Verdict: this offer is not going to be hit among general users. but if u r too caring lover may opt for it. in that case buy 2 sets and recharge one connection with it.

MSaver 99- offers local calls to any mobile @30p/min and local landline calls @50p/min for lifetime
Verdict: i think it's going to be a hit !

both of above are introductory offer, and for limited period of time and till stocks last. so grab them, i insist to buy Msaver99. but you can recharge both !

apart from this two, Msaver 98(FREE CALLING TO MTS) offers local MTS-2-MTS free unlimited calling and MSaver 31 (SMS PACK) for Local & National 1000 SMS to all network ,both for 30days. There is another STD PACK MSaver27 to call STD @Re1/min for 30days [Note only STD tariff will change].

Recharge vouchers Visit here

[most RV(Rs 50,100,200,500) offers full talktime deducting only S.T. , but Mini Fills(Rs 20,10) deduct Rs2 as Admin Fee]

MTS Care(Kolkata)

9153155155 for Calling from other connections, 155 from MTS mobile

Fax: 9153166166

Email: 155.wb@mtsindia.in

Review: Customer Care is good, new operator so no waiting to connect Customer care executives, they are helpful and has good knowledge on MTS.

Get MTS kolkata ads: http://www.mtsindia.in/kol_advertising.html

About Network : CDMA offers better coverage

MTS network is best as per it's a new entrant. calling is smooth and in 1-try,voice is clear. even Roaming to Rest of Bengal offers same seamless network! just unbelievable! I don't know whose tower they hired !

Roaming over India is available via Tata Indicom's network.

Outgoing Calls - good and fast to connect, but problem with Airtel,Vodafone sometimes happen.

SMS : outgoing well fast, though my sms to my own Smart no, was not delivered !

Incoming SMS is delivered fast, though BSNL Bengal circle mobile takes it as STD no. ! it's normal, as it also happens in case of Aircel Bengal & BSNL Kolkata no.s ! and you can get Delivery report too.

Value Added Services VAS :

On Handset option is available.

Missed Call Alert

Its free :)

**MTS SIM was not recognized by Nokia 6275 (bought with Reliance),which works with Tata Indicom SIM card. PIN Code is asked and '12345' or '0000' is not working! though a chinese handset works well with MTS.

Conclusion: I thought if MTS came here with same plans of TN,Kerala circles it may fail to hit. But their intro plan is awesome with lifelong local mobile calling @30p/min without any power cards. In last five years, Kolkata saw new operators - Tata, R-Com GSM(Smart), Aircel, Virgin, MTS. And if you analyze the trend - for intro in a metro like kolkata new operators must offer low tariff to other network also to catch new customers to make a good customer base 'coz if you offer free min to own netwrok people will not take it. that's why Tata and virgin fails to knock the door properly, Just remind Reliance India Mobile launch - they offered price of handset converted to free recharge vouchers, but their Smart was a failure during launch due to poor network and no network sharing from other GSM operators like Airtel and Vodafone. Aircel stormed kolkata with Rs.246voucher for unlimited local calling and they made a good base snapping from BSNL, Airtel and Vodafone and then Smart's Relaunching of 35p/min all loc calls for 1st 6months of connection during pan india launch of R-GSM! MTS just followed the rule, yeah remember another thing Kolkata is 1st metro to get MTS !! so they were very serious about it and launched just in 2 months of releasing news of 'Kolkata is getting under radar of Red'. But only CDMA factor oppose them, still I don't find enough respond from GSM users,but let me wait for 1 month 'coz most shops deny to sell MTS as it's CDMA. well I am hoping !dea(GSM) will come as 25p/min local call for lifetime before durgapuja in Kolkata.

All the best,

BSNL Broadband - what we can expect from new Govt.

2009-05-21T09:52:00.003+05:30

Well Lok Sabha Election is over, and Maran may be back as Minister. This is Dayanidhi Maran who announced India will get free broadband of 2Mbps around 2012. And during his time we had BSNL upgraded broadband bandwidth 2Mbps from 256kbps and become the most affordable broadband service provider.

Well I am talking about BSNL broadband plans. At present what people want from BSNL :

Bandwidth upgradation ( uplink and downlink both stream ) :
those who are on 256kbps Unlimited plans,want speed to be increased atleast 512kbps @ same price or speed upto 2mbps. UL users are not asking for 8Mbps connection

but those who are on night UL plans ( 500, 500c,500c+ etc etc) asking fo bandwidth increase for upto 8Mbps, [ FYI BSNL has ADSL technology on which 8Mbps is maximum bandwidth], if not 4Mbps will do good.

upload speed should be increased as per download speed.

Cheaper Plans: Lower tariffs - but i think if bandwidth,free usage n more night hours is introduced , there will not be no reduction of tariff.

More free usage : that time free usage increased 2.5 times. so expecting 1GB->2.5GB,1.5GB-> 4GB,2.5GB->6GB like this.

Night free hours upto 8 hours a day - instead of 2AM - 8AM, it would be 0000-0800hrs.

Well I am listening about more bandwidth and changing night free hours for a long time from BSNL officials, but still not implemented ! hope now it will be soon implemented !

MTS ad 1st time on Kolkata

2009-05-19T07:23:00.011+05:30

MTS India is coming to Kolkata which I heard & told many times. But I did not found any advertisement from MTS India. Well they started showing their ads , the 1st one I saw was on The Telegraph dated 18th May and 2nd one i find today 19th in Anandabazar patrika. Ad saying : " Everything will change, Get Ready "

These ads are not telling its MTS India to make people curious, but of course it's MTS launching!! just see their logo:

so it's new brand of fuchka (ফুচকা), :-o , no it's MTS India. for your info, MTS is CDMA based mobile service provider. Read my early post on MTS. and it is coming with some awesome intro offers. just see MTS plans in Tamilnadu, as per sources Kolkata & WB circle will get same offer.

Tamilnadu >> 1. tariff - Click 2. Special tariff Vouchers - Click 3. Recharge Voucher - click

In short u can get lifelong 150 min free calling everyday to own network @ Rs 499/- (actually 10,00,000 min free)and get lifetime connection just a mere Rs 49/- while default call rates are 35p to own and 70p to others as local calls, STD @ Rs 1.40/min nation wide SMS @ 50p ,and can opt for all local calls @49p for Rs 25/-- for 30 days and with spendin Rs99/- u can call MTS2MTS free for 30days. there are a no. of Msavers (STVs) for customers' needs !

Well their plans are awesome and too attractive , but only thing will go against it is their CDMA tech - people need a unlocked CDMA handset while most people are on GSM. But do u know why I am so interested in MTS, the reason is on CDMA sector in Kolkata and WB circle, R-Com has a monopoly which was facilitated by Tata's worst network and worst tariffs !! Mobile number portability is coming, so I want to see some fight from MTS, after all in that war winner is alwaz customers .....

If you like to hear MTS singnature tune - download it. It's also kool too !!

UPDATE on 20.05.2009

MTS network is active over Kolkata, though they are waiting for official launch, handsets-SIMs-Cutouts are distributed to the mobile shops and resellers. You can call MTS care @ +91 9143155155.