T24: India's first unpaid mobile service

The innovations in the telecom sector continues. Now we have India's first unpaid mobile connection service called T24 (TALK24). The service is brought by Tata Teleservices and Future Group, the retailer. The T24 service has been launched on the GSM platform and provides a two way benefit to the customers.

Elaborating on what the two way benefit is, Mayur Toshniwal, CEO, T24 said that through this service, customers will reap in shopping benefits as they talk and talk time benefits as they shop.

How the unpaid mobile connection will work is when customers shop at any outlet under the Future Group tag, they will be rewarded with free talk time for every purchase made above  351. A subscriber needs to have a T24 SIM card to avail the unpaid mobile services. The per-second rates for calls will be applicable for the T24 customers on the Tata Teleservices' GSM network.

So the calculation here is simple. If you do a shopping of  3,001 in any Future Gropu store, you stand to get a free talk time of  150 on your T24 SIM card.

The stores covered under the Future Group chain include Big Bazaar, Pantaloons, Central, Brand Factory, Home Town, eZone and Aadhar, wherein you will get exclusive mobile connection and tariff plans under the T24 unpaid mobile service connection. 

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Android Application to run on other phones

Myriad, a mobile technology company, announced new software Alien Dalvik that will allow Android applications to run on non-Android platforms. 

With this, a much wider range of devices and platforms will be able to host Android applications, making it available for new audiences. The software can be installed without any user disruption. The users won't have to restrict to the applications, OS of their device can hosts, and instead they will have the options of android applications on their devices as well.

Alien Dalvik is also likely to open up new revenue opportunities for mobile operators, OEMs and app store owners. They will have easy access to the Android applications and will be able to install them in varied range of device operating systems. It will allow android applications to run on platforms like MeeGo. 

The software lets the application run unmodified and hence letting the app store owners and mobile operators to start their services just by repackaging Android Package (APK) files. 

The software will be unveiled for the first time at Mobile World Congress 2011 in Barcelona. 

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