The 'Lifetime Validity' products offered by mobile operators who had       

 received their license in 1994 are valid only till 2014, which is less     

 than 10 years from now. In contrast, the 'Lifetime Validity' product 

of  Reliance Communications, is valid till 2021 which is almost 15 years 

from now. 

To further supplement its already superior offerings,Reliance is launching

a new 10 year incoming product to offer customers more choice.

The new 10-year validity product from Reliance is comparable to the

 'Lifetime Validity' product offered by most other mobile operators. 

This new product at Rs 795 offers a 10 year incoming calling facility. 

This is almost as much as the Lifetime validity product of most operators.

  And in conjunction with the flexibility to choose any tariff rather than 

  being tied down to any high tariffs, this product offers superior value to  

Reliance's subscribers.

This Recharge option of Rs 795– currently available with

 E-recharge -  comes with Rs 25 talk time pre-loaded. Customers needing

 to make outgoing calls occasionally can recharge with top-up

 micro-recharges starting from  Rs 10 and make outgoing calls at the calling

 rates of Rs 1.99 for a local   call and Rs 2.99 for all other calls in India

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I talked about Hutch Mumbai assigning the same number to two simcards some days back. It was a case of forgery, the infamous “mobile cloning” (that had been a muse of quite a few news stories some months back) where all the calls made from the other card were being debited from my friend’s account.

But one thing about the whole episode stunned me:

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Jayvee of Cellphone9 recently posted about lighter side of 3G joking about how it will make harder for husbands to lie to their wives about their location.Though this one was in good humour I recalled having read about some IITian having created a cellphone tracking technology where one can keep track of exact location of  any other cellphone, and this one did not need 3G either it was a network-operator sided technology and can be used simply via SMS. (link to the article)

In fact Airtel had stated at the time that they were adopting this technology and that things were in place. That was more than a year back and there has been no further word on this from either Airtel or Mobiance Technology (the company formed by those IIT guys). However a visit on Mobiance Website throws a light to the fact that this product is already being used in ‘corporate versions’ for fleet & workforce tracking and that ‘consumer version’ of these products are also available.

Let’s first talk about the ‘corporate version’..

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