My first cell phone was a Nokia. Over the years they have made some really innovative cell phones. Here is the history of Nokia phones all in one image. Check it out!
The History of Nokia
October 23rd, 2009Virgin Mobile India Introduces New Low Rates
October 17th, 2009
Virgin Mobile of India introduced two new recharge SIM cards available across India in denominations of Rs.16 and Rs.75 with Rs.16 recharge customers will get all local calls at just 30p/min after 1st 3 min of the day at Re1/min.
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Twitter and Bharti Airtel Partnership
October 14th, 2009
Twitter formed a partnership with Bharti Airtel, the largest carrier in India. Now you can receive twitter updates via SMS in India for free. Sending in Twitter updates from SMS still costs the normal SMS rate.
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Now is a great time to recharge those Airtel phones 
Smarts 30th Anniversary Party
October 14th, 2009I love the photo booth at the Smart 30th Anniversary Party. Check out these photos.
Smart Customer Service Now on Twitter
October 14th, 2009
Smart Communications now has a twitter account to deal with customer service issues. This is a great development as it will now allow you to quickly post or DM questions rite to Smart. Twitter allows you to follow the Smart twitter feed. This will deliver all the latest Smart news and updates rite to you instantly.
If you are roaming and need to activate your Smart SIM this may be just the ticket for you. Take a look at Smarts twitter page here http://twitter.com/SMARTCares
mChek Awarded TiE-Lumis Partners Entrepreneurial Excellence Award
October 10th, 2009mChek (www.mchek.com), India’s leading mobile payment solutions provider, has been awarded the prestigious TiE-Lumis Entrepreneurial Excellence award. The award aims to recognize and applaud the entrepreneurs and startups that have braved the odds and made a mark in the industry.
Airtel Launches Mobile Commerce Service On Voice
October 10th, 2009Print edition appeared on Financial Express, Deccan Herald, Deccan Chronicle, Economic Times and many more
Telecom major Bharti Airtel launched on Wednesday its m-Commerce service – “mChek on Airtel” – which will enable its customers to make payments on the voice platform
Bharti and MTN Wont Merge
October 5th, 2009
Bharti Airtel of India and the MTN Group of South African rival called off a $24 billion deal to create a low-cost telecommunications giant. The deal fell apart as a result of differences from the South African and Indian governments. This is the second failed attempt at a merger between these two companies. Deals of this nature can be difficult because of immature capital markets of developing countries and hands-on governments, which make corporations less independent than their counterparts in developed economies.
China Adds Patriotic Ring-back Tones
September 30th, 2009
The New York Times has an interesting article about China’s mobile phone service company has changed customers’ ring-back tones to a patriotic song ahead of the 60th anniversary of the People’s Republic.
A ring-back tone is what a caller hears once a number is dialed but before the other party picks up. Many providers outside of the US provide the ability to customize the ring-back audio of a phone. The standard tone is a repetitive ring. Here is the US most users still associate the standard ring with the actual bells that were used on the original land line phones, not realizing that the tone is actually a digital music file like an MP3. The phone carriers consider the new patriotic theme a gift to their users.
Users are given other options of ring-back music if they do not wish to have the patriotic song that was selected for them. In China ring-back tones are big business, accounting for hundreds of millions of dollars in revenue (source).
Read the full NY Times article here – http://www.nytimes.com/2009/09/30/world/asia/30ringtone.html
Globes New Tattoo Prepaid SIM Cards
September 29th, 2009Globe Telecom Launched 4 new Prepaid SIM cards called Tattoo. The new cards simplify the globe Prepaid SIM card options in the Philippines.
The Tattoo SIM cards come in 4 flavors. There is one prepaid SIM card for Calls, text and internet, and 3 different SIM options for calling and texting with no internet. The call and text SIM is available in P100, P300, and P500. In addition to this simplified offering Globe also redesigned the graphics on the SIM cards.
Recharging load on these new SIMs works the same as the previous Globe SIM cards. Learn more here »
Tattoo Prepaid Text, Call and Internet SIM
Tattoo Prepaid Text and Call SIM
