Get the URL First!!!

In this modern era, the first step to start a business would be to get your URL registered. If you don't do that, you might end up as another Airtel.

Open any browser and type in "www.airtel.com" in the URL field.

Surprised!!! Well its not the fault of the Browser.

Actually Vodafone had bought this URL from some Swedish company (they call this acquisition - a good business trick) and now anyone wanting to see the Airtel home page would be taken to its competitors home page.

... and I think, to avoid legal issues, cleverly they aren't showing the Indian Home page of Vodafone

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Thank you Airtel...

Thank you Airtel Hello Tunes!!!

Few days back I made two posts on Airtel Hello Tunes - HERE and HERE.

Traffic to my blog which was less than 10 per day has almost doubled since then - thanks to few search engines..

Hence this post to thank them!!

sounds too much uh???
its ok friend... let the little boy enjoy! ;-)
keywords:

AirTel Hello Tunes, Airtel Tamil Hello Tunes

AirTel Hello Tunes is Good but the process isn't...

I have been using the Hello Tunes feature in Airtel, for the past one year. Its very nice idea to let your callers listen to some sweet/interesting music (one of my friends always have very funny songs as his Hello Tune), but the process to select song in AirTel isn't so smooth...

REASON 1:
Here is how the AirTel charge for this feature:
Monthly Subscirption : Rs. 30.00
Download Charge/Song : Rs. 15.00
AirTime Charge/min : Rs. 6.00 (Rs.3.00 in North East Assam Circles)

Monthly subscription and the download charges are OK, but that Rs.6/min Call charge for selecting a song is expensive.

To select a song, one will have to call 678 from a AirTel mobile. Selecting a particular song through an IVR from the 20k+ songs they have, would definitely take a considerable amount of time and so is the call charge. I feel AirTel should provide this free of cost [;)]

REASON 2:
Now very recently they added two new options to select a song:

• By sending a sms, SET SMS_SONG_CODE to 678
• By Direct Dialling, you can skip the IVR and reach the song direcly.

You can find the songs list and the corresponding Code at the AirTel website HERE

Shouldn't this feature have a powerful search option and clear display view????

If I search for Tamil Songs - all language songs are being listed!
Even the most common searches (combinations) list Empty Results!!
Only 5 songs are listed in a view with a very poor page Navigator!!!

I m sorry AirTel, this page is really toooooo bad. (that too in such a Web 2.0 era)
Plz.. Plz.. Plz.. make this portal more efficient!!!

I was searching for the "Athiradiyai" song from the movie Sivaji, but couldn't find it. However in that search process I ended up with another popular old tamil song - "Adi Ennadi" from the movie "Patikada Patanama".

For folks who would like to have that song, here are the codes:

Direct Dialling - 678678051445
SMS Code - PB445

Keywords:

Hello Tune, AirTel, Adi Ennadi, Tamil Hello Tune