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mobile number portability delayed “again” – hats off trai!!!
Dec 7th
few days ago i was discussing about all those offers released by those gsm cell service providers, for prepaid customers, less than 1 paisa per sec, free so much etc, then we were wondering how these companies manage the be profitable? then concluded on a lighter side – i said from post paid customers, believe me, we post paid customers never get much offers, high usage bills, charge for everything, useless free stuff(e.g.: everyday 5000 sms) you will know what i am talking about, if you live in India and a post paid customer at some point of time.
salivating prepaid customer offers, hefty post paid bills, bad signal strength i receive from my provider etc, i want to try different provider and offer, but the biggest problem will be to convey my new number to friends, relatives, banks, office, business, websites, etc… list was huge. so i decided not to change my provider.
then i heard about number portability coming to India, which suppose to be launched by December 2009, but you know as many Indian telecom delay saga, it has been postponed to April 2010.
survey by AC Nielsen revealed :
post-paid subscribers and business subscribers show a greater tendency to switch if Mobile Number Portability is introduced.
I’m one among them, i am watching this number portability issue very closely and desperately.
India cell number might go 11 digits.
Dec 3rd
DoT is planning to add extra digit to our cell numbers, i.e from 10 digit to 11 digit, earlier they released 8 series number after exhausting use of 9 series.
This extra digit is at premature stage, they might add extra 9, but this can be carried out only after consulting with industry operators.
India’s telecom subscription has crossed 500 million mark, and growing rapidly, it is expected to cross 1 billion by 2014, this extra digit addition will ease the growth. But adding new digit is not easy move for users, it means updating contact numbers, update numbers to bank, office, business card etc.
In my opinion this cannot come in short notice, atleast year long notice is required, else allow both 10 digit and 11 digit co-exist for the number.
Posted by Wordmobi
Apple iphone wont allow voip calls over 3G?
Nov 9th
I’ve nokia s60v3 device(e71), at some point i have thought like i should have buyed apple iphone despite the fact i hate touch screens, for all its glossy apps and all the sync apps for rtm,evernote, twitter… but today after reading gigaom article on apple’s voip functionality, i’m happy i didnt buy apple iphone, i hate too much control.
Apple isnt allowing voip calls over 3G, which prevents nimbuzz, truphone and fring to work, is it working in india for iphone users?
Asterisk – VMWare Installation
Nov 8th
i was searching for asterisk vmware image, i found one at virtual appliance market place but the version is very old, so i decided to create virtual image for myself, lets begin:-
download a copy of AsteriskNOW,as iso image
download VMWare Player 3.0, i downloaded from here
open your newly installed VMware Player
select create new virtual machine option.
browse and select iso file where the asterisk iso is saved.
it will show the following error message.
it next window it ask you to select the “guest operating system”, select linux and red hat linux
in next window it will ask for name of your virtual machine, i named it Asterisk and the location where this image can be saved.
go next and select the size for your hard disk(recommended 8GB) – voila it comes to this window
press “enter” installation will proceed.
this how the screen will be like once setup is over.
