Comments on: Airtel Blocks MyToday’s longcodes – Confusion over NDNC/Opt-in

By: CHANNI

CHANNI — Thu, 05 May 2011 06:24:43 +0000

PLEASE STOP DND SERVICES AND START PAR-MOTIONAL SMS TO MY NUMBER
9878600426

By: rajesh

rajesh — Tue, 15 Dec 2009 10:55:47 +0000

Hy, Every One

My Today is a great sservice,

i’m using it since it starts,

we join this service to send sms ,
than there is know question of complainting about the My Today service,

this service must starts,

it gives us the all news as we subscribs

By: deepu

deepu — Fri, 19 Jun 2009 14:24:36 +0000

I want to make a girl-friend and like to make new friends for some chit-chat.

By: deepu

deepu — Fri, 19 Jun 2009 14:15:46 +0000

for friendship

By: Indian Politicians don’t give a damn to NDNC |Technology and Business Startups in India

Thu, 11 Dec 2008 11:44:16 +0000

[...] And many messages were sent without scrubbing the Do Not Call (DNC) Registry list (interestingly, Airtel blocked MyToday citing same [...]

By: siddharth

siddharth — Sat, 06 Dec 2008 06:23:42 +0000

NDNC is a farce, with Airtel even so, they have a strange concept of all or nothing infact in one of my conversations with their 121 support CCE’s I was informed that even messages from Airtel would be stopped, or even utility based alerts like Banking can not pass through the NDNC. Why do operators behave in such high handed manner don’t they understand a simple math of proliferation of services or network of users would also ultimately benefit them.

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Thu, 27 Nov 2008 15:24:13 +0000

[...] have understood how to make use of this directory. The issue has come to prominence with airtel banning longcodes used by [...]

By: Ravi

Ravi — Fri, 21 Nov 2008 08:54:51 +0000

Does every SMS includes instructions to opt-out?

By: Business Case for Operators to Open their Network? |Technology and Business Startups in India

Fri, 21 Nov 2008 06:10:52 +0000

[...] Email This Post Playing devil’s advocate :: Here is an interesting perspective by Curios Minds on our earlier coverage of Airtel/MyToday [...]

By: Ashish

Ashish — Thu, 20 Nov 2008 17:30:12 +0000

Interesting viewpoint!
I would rather have Rajesh answer this. Have asked him to.

-Ashish

By: Shouvik

Shouvik — Thu, 20 Nov 2008 17:19:38 +0000

Here is how airtel looks at all this:
“I have rented my place (infrastructure) to a co. They pay me, say Rs. 10K.
Now these guys start a business using my infra and then, they start making Rs. 100K!
Thing is if I block them, they will be dead (literally) – so lets bargain, if they can give me a cut!”

–And the story continues.

By: Curious Mind

Curious Mind — Thu, 20 Nov 2008 13:10:01 +0000

Hey Ashish,

I have always wondered if there has ever been any strong Business case presented to a mobile operator which would make them open up their networks.

For example, it would be really great if you could ask Mr. Rajesh Jain to just share his insights into how much would the profits of airtel increase if they let MyToday proliferate.

I find it a little difficult to digest that in a competitive domain like Telecom in India, anybody would let go a strong business case.

By: Himanshu Khurana

Himanshu Khurana — Thu, 20 Nov 2008 10:22:02 +0000

Thanks for the insight Ashish

I used to work in an m-commerce company before. We had a mobile application, which used to communicate over GPRS. Airtel blocked our IP just because Airtel was promoting a similar concept on its WAP portal.
Finally, we got it opened after quite a bit of struggle.

Operators have to understand that the power of their network will be realized only if they make it an open garden like internet.

By: Kenney

Kenney — Thu, 20 Nov 2008 03:49:24 +0000

Opt in is the way to do. We can start with 0 services and then opt in for the ones we are interested in. This would eliminate the need for a DND database.

By: mahesh

mahesh — Thu, 20 Nov 2008 03:05:49 +0000

Airtel felts the heat that one day Mobile Inbox will be replaced by MyToday. So in future you wont see Inbox you only see MyToday.

My mob contains only MyToday SMS [words & health] nothing else. will send video soon of that.

Its bad to block, seriously.