Vodafone celebrates the festival of Navrathri in Tamil Nadu

Customers can avail a host of Navrathri Special Value Added Services

Chennai, September 23, 2009 – Vodafone Essar, one of India’s leading telecom services providers, today announced an array of exciting value added services in Tamil Nadu to mark the celebration of Navarathri.

Vodafone customers in the state can download Navarathri special songs and popular Tamil music from latest movies. This ‘Navarathri pack’ can be availed by calling 567604 (Charges 30paise/minute) at just Rs 30 per month. Customers can also download special ‘Deity of the day’ wallpapers by sending PSMS DD to 56789.

In addition, there will be an MMS ‘Capture the best Golu’ picture contest, where customers can send in their “Golu” pictures as an MMS to rotnvas.mms@vodafone.com. The best entries will win exciting audio collections.

Kumar Ramanathan, Chief Executive Officer, Vodafone Essar South Limited said, “We have always endeavored to add value to our offerings. Like every year, this year too we would like to add to our customers’ Navrathri celebrations through an assortment of value added services that have been specially designed for this festive occasion”.

FoneArena reports that 3G has been launched in chennai today

Dunno when users will be able to avail the facility

3G Facility

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.