Competition surely has its advantages and all the more so in times of recession. With mobile operators flooding the telecom industry,Vodafone Essar for starters brings Vodafone Tuesday for you. "Our customers get a scheme of getting two movie tickets and meals for the price of one," Rajiv Kohli,Chief Executive Officer,Vodafone Essar-Punjab,adds that the scheme is applicable only on Tuesdays and valid at Fame Cinema,Shalimar Mall and restaurants like Score lounge,Shahanshah,Manor,Peninsula,Vaseela and Black Magic. Vodafone customers can easily download 'Vodafone Tuesdays' coupons from their mobile phones,"this is our endeavour to bring innovative service offerings to a varied customer base," Kohli says to avail of this offer,one has to SMS TUESDAY to 56789. "Once you receive the discount coupon by SMS,you can redeem it at any outlet of your choice,'' adds Kohli. Tata Teleservices impresses its customers with M-commerce services. "With the increasing trend of using mobile phones for commercial transactions,telecom operators have to get more aggressive in facilitating Mobile commerce and banking and that's the reason we have tied up with ICICI Bank to offer mobile banking services to our subscribers who are also with ICICI Bank," says TPS Walia,COO- Punjab & Himachal Pradesh,Tata Teleservices Limited,adding that now customers can avail banking services with just a click of the button. "Now they can manage finances while on the move via iMobile a Brew based application," Walia says through the application subscribers can transfer funds to any bank account,pay bills,top up prepaid mobile recharge,locate an ICICI Bank branch,ATM,view account balances and make credit card payment. "The iMobile application can be downloaded on to the handset through BREW catalogue on our server,on all handsets. But for this,one has to have a data enabled handset that supports this application," Walia tells us as of now Samsung T Nimbus,Samsung Bliss,Samsung NX1 LG 6335,and Pantec 715,Samsung Max among few others support the application. Not too far behind is Idea,that with Network 18 powers its subscribers with general news,money and technology. "Network 18 has introduced co-branded WAP properties with IDEA Cellular that has customized its finance,news and technology content services for IDEA Cellular by category leaders like moneycontrol.com,IBNLive.com and Tech2.com," Pradeep Shrivastava,Chief Marketing Officer,IDEA Cellular says the service can be accessed on IDEA's WAP portal- wap.ideaFresh.com. Take a call!
