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New Year’s Eve SMS Rates Remain the Same for Airtel and RCom

Airtel and Reliance Communications will not charge more for sending text messages on December 31. Airtel also announced they would maintain regular call and SMS tariffs on December 31, as subscribed to by the user. Vodafone and Aircel subscribers will end up paying Re 1 for every local message and Rs 1.50 for a national SMS. Tata DoCoMo will charge 50 paisa for local and national SMSes.

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Indian Railway’s SMS Alert on Railway Level Crossing

The Northern Railway had launched the scheme on December 12 sending SMS to about 10 lakh people each day covering areas with high density of unmanned level crossings. The railways transmit four types of SMS currently. The messages are designed to bring about attitudinal changes. They either persuade people to change for the better or warn them of the consequences. […]

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One Paisa Per SMS and Unlimited SMS for Re. 1 Per Day by Reliance Mobile

Reliance Communications is making SMS’s more affordable to all mobile customers in India with two new revolutionary SMS tariff plans for Reliance Mobile customers: One paisa per SMS plan and Unlimited SMS for just Re. 1 per day. The new SMS tariff plans are add-on plans and are applicable for all Reliance Mobile customers irrespective of CDMA or GSM network as well as prepaid and postpaid customers. […]

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SMS in Indian Languages Soon – Thanks to CEWiT’s 7-bit Encoding

Centre for Excellence in Wireless Technology (CEWiT) has developed a 7-bit encoding technology, which will allow SMS to be send in 22 Indian languages including Malayalam, Tamil, Marathi and Assamese. Further, text messages can be transliterated from one language to another. The encoding technology is approved by the global mobile standards body 3rd Generation Partnership Project (3GPP). The new 7-bit encoding scheme for Indian language SMS is now part of the 3GPP specifications. It is reported that, cell operators, phone makers and Telecome regulatory Authority of India (TRAI) have agreed to adopt the technology. Seven-bit encoding allows 160-character SMSs in regional languages also, approved by Trai and global mobile standards body 3GPP, accepted by cellular operators and phone manufacturers. […]

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diet-sms Service from Tata Docomo – Just 1 Paisa Per Character

Tata Docomo has recently announced a unique SMS service, diet-sms service, which allows you to send short SMS at the cost of just 1 paisa per character and no charge for spaces between words. It is same as normal P2P sms but in this diet-sms, you are charged 1 paisa per character and no charge for spaces between words. Diet-sms service is for message upto 15 characters.

There are 3 ways of sending a diet-sms. To send a diet-sms, go to the SIM-based Dive-in menu on the phone, scroll to the diet-sms option under the English Language menu, open it and send the SMS. […]

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Pay-Per-Call Prepaid Plan of Tata Indicom and Tata Teleservices

Tata Teleservices introduced a new tariff plan “Pay-Per-Call” for pre-paid CDMA subscribers. The calls will be charged Re 1 for all local calls and Rs 3 for long distance calls, regardless of the duration. Tata Indicom and Teleservices subscribers would be able to avail of the plan by paying a daily fee of Re 1 or Rs 30 monthly and call rates would also apply on mobile to landline and to calls made to other networks. The plan also offers subsidised rate for SMS at 50 paise, for both local and national SMS. […]