The number of landline telephone users in the city of chennai might be decreasing.

Due to increasing usage of mobile phones in the city and since mobile phones can be carried unlike telephones, landline subscribers are declining.

People seem to be having landline phones mainly for broadband apart from STD / ISD Calls

Vodafone just sent out a notification about the SMS charges for pongal days

Local SMS - 25p

National SMS - Rs.1

International SMS - Rs.5

Airtel Chennai’s Network was down for about 2 hours today . As I write this post , the network seems to be back up.

Both General users and Blackberry users were complaining of lack of coverage.

I myself saw a 0 in the signal strength indicator for about an hour and my 6630 had switched to 3G.