The Indian mobile price war is getting ridiculous

Indian mobile operator Reliance Communications (RCom) has announced a new price for sending SMS. It is 1 paise. Which is 0.0002 dollars. To put it another way, it now costs 2 cents to send 100 SMS through Reliance. How do you reckon that’s going to pan out in the long run?

Getting paid to social network by 3

Mobile operator 3 has announced a plan to pay its subscribers for promoting the network to friends. Customers who become “3 Free Agents” will receive cash every time they get a friend to start using a free Pay-As-You-Go SIM from 3.

Virgin Mobile USA New Family Tariffs

Virgin Mobile USA has unveiled three new contract plans for families
– $175/month All-In plan with 4000 shared anytime minutes — unlike comparable plans, this includes unlimited messaging and data services
– $50 A La Carte plan including 600 shared anytime minutes with
unlimited mobile-to-mobile minutes
– An additional 200 shared anytime [...]

Orange Romania launches unlimited mobile voice and internet package

Orange Romania has announced its new “Home&Office Pack” tariff. The deal offers unlimited calls between your fixed line and up to 50 Orange mobile numbers. It also offers unlimited internet, with the caveat that if you use a truly huge amount of data, your connection speed will eventually be dropped.

The free minutes to 50 pre-chosen [...]

E-Plus summer offer Time & More All in Web Red Card

Germany mobile operaotr E-Plus is running a few special tariff offers for the whole of June.

What do you get?
If you buy an E-Plus Time & More All in tariff you get 50% extra bonus and free monthly or basis price for three months.
This goes for Tariffs 100, 200 and 1000 – All in Einheiten (All [...]

Flatrate Mobile Tariffs serve only to confuse at CeBIT

Operator: We are sooo innovative. We have flatrates!
GoMo: Great – flatrate. So one price for everything. Right?
Operator: NO?

GoMo: What?
Operator: Its a flat rate between him and him or her and her but not zick and zack.
GoMo: Aha!
Operator: But if you want to add her and her and him and him or uncle and aunty you [...]

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