www.WirelessFederation.com/news: Bharat Airtel Limited today has introduced “Journalist Card” which gives many benefits to the journalists using Airtel SIM card. Under the scheme, the charge for Close User Group (CUG) is 30 paise per minute. The card has been launched for the convenient of the communication among the scribes, said the Chief Operating Officer.

As per the scheme, the subscribers will be given facilities of talking at the rate of 50 paise per minute during the time from 11 pm till 6 am and in the other normal time, the talk for local caller rate will be Re 1 while Rs 1.50 for the STD calls. For Airtel to Airtel, the charge will be 25 paise while with other users will be Re 1 per minute and Rs 1.50 per minute for STD. Under this scheme, subscribers are not required to pay security deposit and application charge.

www.WirelessFederation.com/news: Mobinil, Egypt based mobile operator, has unveiled new business tariff plans. There are five options of 100, 250, 500, 1000 or 2000 minutes per month are available for subscribers to opt. The first two plans include respectively 30 and 90 minutes of intracompany calls as well, while the top three plans offer unlimited calls to other company lines. The plans are priced from EGP 25 per month till EGP 500 for the biggest plan, (exclude tax). The calls made outside the bundle costs EGP 0.25 to Mobinil lines and EGP 0.30 to other networks. Free value-added services such as conference call, Clip+ and closed user groups are also available on all business tariff plans.

www.WirelessFederation.com/news: Vodafone has launched a ‘GappaGoshti’ scheme under its prepaid mobile services only for its rural subscribers in Goa and Maharashtra. With this service, the subscriber can create their own groups or market place/ community with the same gappagoshti scheme cards and call each other for just 30 paise a minute. GappaGoshti is a scheme like CUG what we call in post paid connections. In the beginning the subscriber have to recharge his mobile worth Rs. 101 paper voucher or get a GappaGoshti Start up kit that comes with life time validity.