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No cost on incoming calls, anywhere in India - BSNL 15 June 2015
BSNL has launched free roaming, starting from today the 15th June 2015, which will allow its mobile customers across the country to receive incoming calls at no cost. "Now BSNL mobile customers will not need to carry multiple SIMs and...
Keywords: Mobile, Roaming charges, Telecom Ministry, Telecom Ministry
Read MoreAdieu roaming charges 05 December 2012
By the time March arrives, no mobile phone user will be tormented by the extra service charges he would have to shell from his mobile phone balance for the roaming services, that significantly add up to the price of the...
Keywords: key initiatives, DoT, roaming, Vodafone
Read MoreDoT - No more roaming charges for mobile users 10 October 2011
No Roaming Charges on Mobile Phone Calls There is good news for mobile phone service consumers. Telecom Minister Kapil Sibal has unveiled a new telecom policy which proposes to remove roaming charges for subscribers within the country.Mobile telephone users...
Keywords: AUSPI, Spectrum act, Indian mobile, NTP 2011
Read MoreNew telecom policy to be ready by June 2012 24 December 2011
The year 2012 may also see the ushering in of a faster broadband technology that connects people on the go without being wired. Nation-wide mobile number portability is expected to be ready by June 2012. The new telecom policy, which...
Keywords: one-nation one-tariff environment, stakeholders, one-nation one-tariff environment, 4G
Read MoreAny state, same number 14 December 2012
Kapil Sibal the Telecom Minister has announced that by Feb 2013, all of India would be able to change to any state and any network without changing their number. This Mobile Number portability MNP, which is currently applicable withing the...
Keywords: nationwide MNP, roaming charges, zero roaming, roaming charges
Read MoreNow BSNL customers can roam anywhere in India without charges 02 June 2015
BSNL will offer free national roaming for its prepaid and postpaid mobile connection from June 15, announced by Telecom Minister Ravi Shankar Prasad. The Minister also instructed the state-run operator to improve the quality of services, especially in the border...
Keywords: roaming, BSNL, Mobile, Mobile
Read MoreGovt asks Airtel, Vodafone and Idea to stop 3G roaming agreements 23 December 2011
On December 22 Telecom Ministry has asked top telecom operators like Bharti, Vodafone, Idea service providers to abondon their 3G roaming agreements and is also planning to set penalty on them.Its all because of operators for disobeying licence norms.As this decision...
Keywords: Govt, stop 3G roaming agreements, Department of Telecom, Idea
Read MoreGovernment fails in free roaming calls policy 09 April 2012
According to sources, the department of telecommunications (DoT) is ready with the draft of the National Telecom Policy (NTP) but has not sent the same to the concerned ministries. Consumers of telecom and broadband are not happy as the deadline...
Keywords: Cabinet approval, department of telecommunications, Cabinet approval, voice and free roaming
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