Arun

If you are using Windows XP, you can change the COM port setting so that it can be used by the softwares. Search in the Technical Programming forum if you don't know how to change the COM ports in XP.

Are you sure that you have activated R-Connect by dialling *412 ?

Just convert the midi file ringtones available in the Technical Programming forum to .mmf format

voicemail facility is free. for retrieving your voice mails, you will be charged when you call *600, as per your tariff plan.

Most probably, it will be 'charged' once R-World goes paid.

Yes, get it changed. They will change it for FREE (if its under warranty).

Have you checked whether the USB port in your laptop is working fine when connecting other USB based peripherals ? Also, did the cable work when you connected it to the USB port on your desktop PC ?

There isn't any particualar software that will make your connection faster. You can try Cablenut, CBS Soft, onspeed, etc. but you'll have to tweak them as per your settings. R-Connect speeds aren't too good, it hovers around 5 to 10 kB/sec for me. You can browse through the topics posted in the R-connect forum for more suggestions. Is it 3 - 10 kbps (kilo bits per second) or kBps (kilo Bytes per second) ? If you are getting upto 10 kB/sec, then your connection speed is just fine at par with other users of R-Connect.

Thanks for the enlightment merryderry, that should calm down the heated arguments on whether 1 GB is 1000 MB or 1024 MB !

Nothing can be done unless net_secrets posts the solution here. Try to send a PM to him.

dude, you didn't activate POP in your Gmail account, right ? The Gmail account in Webmail works just like a POP mail account, unlike Rediffmail. Just activate POP in your Gmail settings.

You can check out the Calender to find that out !

yeah, free days are finally coming to an end. atleast cricket scores should have remained free

Reliance Infocomm to expand network to 370 cities in Maharashtra, Goa Press Trust of India Nagpur, March 16, 2005 The largest mobile service provider in the country, Reliance Infocomm would be expanding its network to cover 370 cities and towns in Maharashtra and Goa and with this will reach out to entire state, covering 34 districts, 358 taluks places, 15 national and 34 state highways. At present the company has its presence in 150 towns and cities, which will be expanded in phase II network, Reliance Infocomm CEO for Maharashtra, Goa and Mumbai circle, Athul Jhamb, told reporters, in Nagpur on Tuesday. Over 18,000 villages in Maharashtra and Goa circle will be covered by the company as it was setting up sales and service network, including webworld express outlets. Around 105 additional towns and cities in 11 districts of Vidarbha will be covered under the expansion scheme, Jhamb added. Reliance Infocomm will thus become the first private mobile service provider to offer services in maximum towns and cities in both states and moreover it will be the only company to reach 22 cities in private mobile sector, business head, Dinesh Gulati stated. Some of the important tourist destinations such as resorts of Colvale and Baga beach in Goa, Kihim in Alibaug, pilgrim centres of Ganpatipule, Tuljapur, Pandharpur, Shegaon and Trimbakshwar besides historic places like Panhala, Vaijapur and Buddhist caves temples around Janna and Kamshet will come under phase II network expansion, Gulati added.

Well, I guess F is FREE itself (a *333 representative confirmed it too)... for now, all applications are FREE and so all have F signs. When they go paid (seems to be from April 1st), some of the applications will have P or some other signs... thats what my inner voice tells me

wish you a very happy birthday indeed, Surej !!!

Yes, F seems to be FREE

DAKC (Dhirubhai Ambani Knowledge City), Navi Mumbai, January 27, 2005 Reliance Infocomm and the Department of Posts have entered into an arrangement for the selling of Reliance IndiaMobile(RIM) Prepaid Recharge Vouchers (RCVs) at post offices. Initially, the RCVs will be sold at select post offices in Andhra Pradesh. Announcing, the tie-up, S.P. Shukla, President-Wireless Products and Services, Reliance Infocomm, said: "The marketing arrangement with the Department of Posts in Andhra Pradesh is a step forward towards increasing the availability of RIM Prepaid Vouchers. We look forward to the success of this initiative and subsequently extending it to the rest of the country for greater customer convenience." T.S. Govindarajan, Chief Post Master General, Andhra Pradesh Circle, said, "The massive infrastructure of the Postal Department that covers all parts of the state and the country has been well used by the people for generations. Today, the Post Office is a multi-service point for customers, and we are happy to tie up with Reliance Infocomm." R. Balachandran, CEO AP Circle, Reliance Infocomm, said: "As Reliance Infocomm's network coverage in Andhra Pradesh expands rapidly to cover the entire state, post offices become an ideal additional sales channel for RIM RCVs." The RCVs will initially be available at six outlets in the state. They are the GPO and S.R. Nagar post office in Hyderabad, Secundarabad head post office, Vijayawada, Karimnagar and Adoni post offices. As Reliance Infocomm expands its network in AP, the RIM Prepaid RCV's would be available at up to 104 Head Post Offices, 2,364 sub post offices and over 13,000 branch post offices across the state. About Department of Posts and Andhra Pradesh Circle: The Department of Posts of the Government of India is the world's largest postal network. Post offices in the country are ubiquitous and enjoy a unique place in people's minds and hearts. To millions of Indians, especially in the hinterland, the post office has for years been provider of basic communication services like collection and delivery of mail, selling of postal stationary, money order, insurance, and savings bank products. The present Andhra Pradesh Postal Circle, formed in 1960, also covers Yanam, which falls under the Union Territory of Pondicherry. The state with 16,197 post offices has the second largest postal network after Uttar Pradesh. In 1960, there were 9,300 post offices there. Ninety two per cent of the 16,167 post offices are in the rural areas. On an average, a rural post office in Andhra Pradesh serves 18.20 sq.kms or a population of 3,716. The circle has 48,347 staff, including 29,235 Grameen Dak Sewaks.

Broadband prices to fall further March 14, 2005 10:06 IST Broadband prices have fallen from Rs 1,800 in January 2004 to Rs 500 today, expect them to fall faster now. The average monthly tariff for a broadband (256 kbps or above) connection, which has witnessed a 72 per cent fall over the last 14 months to touch Rs 500 in February 2005, is likely to decline even further following the Telecom Regulatory Authority of India's move to slash international bandwidth rates. Trai announced on Friday international bandwidth rates would fall by up to 70 per cent from April 1. With the regulator all set to announce a revised leased circuit tariff structure for domestic bandwidth within a week, industrial analysts share the view that the combination of international and domestic broadband tariff reduction would eventually see the average monthly tariff fall to Rs 350. All you want to know about broadband According to data compiled by the regulator, the average broadband tariff was as high as Rs 1,800 in January 2004. From Rs 1,000 in September 2004, the average tariffs witnessed a 100 per cent fall over the last five months. The entry of state-owned players Bharat Sanchar Nigam Ltd and Mahanagar Telephone Nigam Ltd into the broadband market in January and the ongoing price war has only accelerated the fall. In addition to slashing tariffs for home users by over 40 per cent to match those offered by the two PSUs, private players like Bharti, Sify and Hathway are combining a slew of freebies to lure new customers and retain existing ones. While Trai's figures show a 65 per cent growth in the number of broadband users from June to December 2004, with the country having 650,000 broadband users, industry analysts estimate over 200,000 new users have been added in the last two months. In a statement, Trai said, "The growth in demand induced by the lower prices mandated by the Authority will itself act as a demand stimulant, leading to higher utilisation of capacities, that would have secondary effects in pushing down the price levels." BSNL executives said the company had installed over 15,000 connections based on the ADSL 2 Plus platform since the launch of its "DataOne" services on January 14. The company has set a target of 1 million broadband subscribers by December 2005. "Most of these connections are in Chennai, Bangalore, Hyderabad and Kolkata. We have a waiting list of over 160,000. Currently, our services are available only in 14 cities, against our target of 200. We are, however, confident of meeting the one million target by the year-end," said a senior BSNL executive. According to MTNL Chairman and Managing Director RSP Sinha, the company had provided 3,500 connections so far, and had a waiting list of over 20,000 (Delhi and Mumbai together). "We are still in the process of rolling out our services. Our subscriber base will cross the stipulated target of 500,000 by December-end," he said. Signal's loud and clear -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- SUBSCRIBERS: The country has around 650,000 broadband users; as many as 200,000 were added in the last two months COSTS: Analysts say the average monthly tariff will soon plunge to Rs 350 BENEFITS: Broadband enables faster downloads; you do not

well, the 'RIM' doesn't stand for "Reliance IndiaMobile", but for "Research in Motion". So moving to General Chat to avoid any confusion

http://www.rimweb.com/forums/index.php?showtopic=2030

Please atleast go through the topics if you are unable to find anything while searching. Check out: http://www.rimweb.com/forums/index.php?showtopic=2030

vb86, I've sent you a PM regarding it.

NEW DELHI, MARCH 4: Financial Express Following a slew of complaints of service providers misusing their licences to offer wireless in local loop-fixed (WLL-F) services as mobile services, Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (Trai) has written to all service providers to strictly comply with the licence conditions. Further, the regulator has also written to the department of telecommunications (DoT) seeking a clarification on the licence conditions that would ensure that there is no misuse of fixed line service phones. Confirming this, a Trai official said, “The notices have been sent to all the operators to ensure that the WLL-F subscriber’s terminal is operated in accordance to the licence of fixed line services and not mobile services.” In its letter to all operators, Trai has written: “Access service providers should ensure that the terminal used for fixed services should be confined to the premises of the subscribers only.” “The idea is to ensure that subscriber’s terminal is operated in accordance to the licence for fixed services,” the Trai official explained. Recently, Trai had issued show-cause notices to basic telecom operators that include Tata Televentures, Reliance Infocomm, BSNL and MTNL, for ‘misleading’ the consumers by positioning their fixed wireless phones as mobile phones. Tatas have positioned their fixed wireless phone ‘Walky’ as “Freedom of Mobility at Landline Rates”, Reliance calls such a service “Unlimited Cordless” and MTNL’s Garuda fixed wireless is called “Mobile bhi landline bhi...”. Tata had approached the Telecom Dispute Settlement Appellate Tribunal (TDSAT) against the Trai’s directive to withdraw the advertisements that mislead the consumers. TDSAT in its decision asked Trai to withdraw the directive, following which Trai had sent another notice to Tata. In response to this, Tata had furnished its arguments justifying its stand. After a period of silence, Trai on Thursday issued yet another notice to Tata Teleservices for the misuse of fixed services.

I guess Rakesh is talking about "contributions/donations" rather than "membership". Well, there is no urgency atleast for the time being for any extra funds from the members for the smooth running of the forum. I am even collecting money earned from the banners and the RIM Accessories shopping website... for purchasing a license for Invision Power Board. All I request the members to do, is to keep continuing to post in the forum, spread the word about RIMweb.com, purchase RIM Acessories, and also, don't forget to check out our sponsor websites on the top and bottom. Anyway, thanks for asking, Rakesh !