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Friday, November 20, 2009
Average Call Duation 58 Seconds

Reliance Wireless President, Mahesh Prasad has revealed the magic number sought after by all the Telecom Analysts in India - The Average Call Duration - 58 Seconds.

Now this means Pay Per Second Billing will not be suitable as customer ends up paying Rs 0.60 / call instead of Rs 0.50 or lower tariffs available in the Indian market. Thus the one paisa per second tariff proves to be expensive compared to Simple Reliance or Other Lower Tariffs.

Their are very few customers who talk less than 25 seconds to whom this 1 Paisa / Second Billing is suitable. However, you've got to admire the product manager at Tata DoCoMo who designed this as it became the platform for the entire Telecom industry within 3 months and has helped Tata DoCoMo gain small market share, mainly from rival Bharti Airtel.

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Published on Friday, November 20, 2009 at 1:22 PM   0 comments
Friday, October 30, 2009
Airtel Introduces Freedom Plan - Per Sec Billing

Breaking NewsA week ago we made a business case that Airtel is likely to shift to per second billing. Bingo! Bharti Airtel has introduced Freedom Plan which is based on a pulse of second.

Details of Airtel Freedom Plan:
Airtel OnNet Calls [Terminating on Airtel Network] - 1 Paise / Second - Local or STD
All other Calls - 1.2 Paise / Second - Local or STD.

Kindly note that Airtel Freedom Plan is available only for pre-paid GSM customers.

However, if you observe closely, that is if a customer talks for 1 minute, he ends up paying 72 paise / call compared to 50 paise by Reliance and 60 paise by other operators.

Update:
To activate this plan you have to get a Recharge Coupon of Rs 64 and the plan will be applied to your account with 12 months validity and ZERO Talktime. You have to recharge separately to get Talktime.

Local SMS Rs 0.5
STD SMS Rs 1.5

What a Royal Rip-off by Airtel.

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Published on Friday, October 30, 2009 at 6:12 PM   2 comments
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