India to get 11-digit mobile numbers in 2010

Sunday, April 5th, 2009

In 2003, the Department of Telecom (DoT) in India had projected the ten-digit mobile numbers would be meet the needs for 30 long years. As of Feb 2009 India registered a user base of 375.74 million wireless subscribers (GSM, CDMA, WLL(F)).

Bulk SMS sender ID to change (mandatory from TRAI)

Saturday, January 31st, 2009

Today I received few SMSs (banks, MyToday etc) and I observed the Sender-ID had changed. For e.g. MyToday's sender id is TM-MyToday.