My service provider is 'Reliance Communications' .
One fine day, on their own, they decided to give their customers some freebies in the form of free ringtones! Of course I became aware of this much later as one does not have a habit of ringing themselves up!
When I found out I called their helpline and explained to the nice lady on the other end that I want to be put back to my normal 'tring tring' ring-tone. She then advised me to activate 'DND' (Do Not Disturb!) through SMS from my phone but also said it will take 45 days for this to be deactivated due to procedures. I begged her with folded hand ( Not an easy task when you are holding the phone too !) to take the ring-tone out but she couldn't help
I was left cursing and murmuring to myself with with the prospect that whenever my clients call me up for some serious business they will be greeted by the popular bollywood (Hindi) no " DEKHA HAI PEHLE BAAR, SAAJAAN KA ANKHEN MEIN PYAR........"
( somewhat like " vous le vous coucher avec moi..." ringtone for a business call - not the literal translation though! - this for our french readers )
(Afterthought - hmmm.....but may be true for a certain type of business ! )
This Happened a long time ago but Just remembered this!
I tried calling my own number just now just to check!
So far so good.
found this related newspaper item amusing........
Policewale badnam hue oh darling tere liye...
Top cop catches constables using raunchy songs as ring tones, issues circular banning them
Posted On Wednesday, April 27, 2011 at 03:14:58 AM
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Mumbai police have unwittingly become victims of moral policing by their superiors. And a certain Sheila and her peer Munni are to be blamed.
On Tuesday, a circular was issued by the commissioner of police banning "item numbers" or "vulgar songs" as ring tones on mobile phones used by policemen.
for full story......
http://www.mumbaimirror.com/index.aspx?page=article§id=15& |
the TATA DOCOMO incident: ( 04-04-2011)
I have a pre paid number of TataDocomo as my backup number.
During the Cricket World Cup, I had received a rather friendly sounding SMS with unfriendly content.
It says " Hi, you have been subscribed to Cricket Updates.You are charged Rs. 5/- per day. To unsubscribed please dail 12345( i think)
Then the updates began, an SMS every 5 minutes or so! In a couple of hours my inbox was full and the SMSs which stated the score had to be erased to make room for SMSs which mattered to me.
I tried calling 12345 where the voice activated menu instructed me to press 01 and the 02 etc., finally coming to 05 to unsubscribe. I heave a sigh of relief and pressed 05 but then the response was " this facility cannot be activated at this time due to technical reason". Wow! that's convenient! Is this department run by a bookie or what? This is not fair, its plain cheating!
Having read about the TATA brand and the great JRD Tata, I have always regarded the TATA brand with integrity and fairness in business. But something seems to have changed over the years ( have experience other incidents too ). Whether it was their partnership with DOCOMO ( on this one) or the sheer size that make it almost impossible to manage,I don't know.
I was clearly not very happy about this and also the fact that they do a lot of voice and SMSs telemarketing.Just imagine when you are expecting an important call and you receive a call made by a machine - you can't even scream back!
So, what did I do then?
I started deleting the SMSs in batches, But it kept on coming..................and would not go away, just like the shit in the 'Comode' which refused to be flushed!
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