Comments on: Virgin Mobile India Launch

By: KAUSHAL

KAUSHAL — Fri, 11 Sep 2009 12:43:27 +0000

virgin has entered the indian market only when service providers like vodafone and airtel have pre occupied the market in this situation the strategy of virgin must be a ossom one to out throw the other service providers

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By: Kiran G

Kiran G — Sat, 07 Feb 2009 11:09:43 +0000

Old SIM no.: 160812211003584 – lost New SIM no.: 160812209006273 – duplicate I bought a virgin mobile prepaid from Sangeeta mobile store at Jayanagar 4th block in Bangalore on 22th of Jan 09. I had submitted all the documents and to my surprise the phone was disconnected on 31st of Jan on my birthday :( When checked with the customer care they said that they haven’t received any documents! I was out of station on that day and couldn’t contact my retailer. Meanwhile the phone was robbed my a servant maid but was caught. I got my phone back but the sim card was thrown out somewhere. I was back in town on 5th Feb, and on the same day I had been to my retailer who asked me to go to one of the Virgin mobile kiosk centers(Forum, koromangala) in the city and get a duplicate sim card and said that the no. would be activated immediately once I re-submit my documents at the center. To my surprise there WASN’T a duplicate sim card available at the center. However, the guy at the center promised me to get one on 6th Feb which he did, but couldn’t activate the no. on the same day. He said that it could be activated by the next day. Unfortunately, today he says that everybody in his back-end team are on leave and the connection could be activated only by monday i.e 9th of Feb. I don’t understand what’s wrong with the Virgin mobile’s organization. This isn’t the case with other telecom service providers. Others act real quick and it does take days together to activate a connection! . “THINK HAT KE” doesn’t mean being slobby and giving zero customer satisfaction. I hope somebody looks into this matter and make’s sure that these kind of issues does repeat and no customer experiences a SLOBBY service of this kind.

By: Sanjana

Sanjana — Wed, 02 Apr 2008 12:35:28 +0000

Too much hype about virgin mobile let’s see how successful it can be in India. I read a nice piece on virgin mobile in SiliconIndia.com, guess you guys can also have a look at it may be it will help you to decide whether to go for it or not:)

By: Sachin Palewar

Sachin Palewar — Thu, 20 Mar 2008 15:36:13 +0000

You have got a great blog. I also wrote a blog on Virgin Mobile and was checking other blogs when I stumbled onto yours.It was also good to know that you are aiming to get into a software company. I have a software company of my own but its not big now. I am looking for people who can help me make it big though. Let me know if you will be interested? :-)

By: In favour

In favour — Mon, 10 Mar 2008 08:43:21 +0000

Do not worry at all. Its a good strategy & will surely work as all the female population is definitely after this kindda of deal :)

By: Illusionist

Illusionist — Sat, 08 Mar 2008 23:35:40 +0000

This 10 paise thing was around for quite long.. I think this strategy
was also used for idea cellular for interior Maharashtra rural people..
it can be proved that it kinda worked but I argue that since there were
just 2 service providers for gsm i.e. BSNL and Idea and since the
private guys are always good, Idea made up real high numbers of
subscribers. Officially the 10 paisa thing was a dud.. but since people
are so much after offers and ‘Bling’ type things without applying
thought, they may generate some market recognition for Virgin..
After all its all about money honey.. but this is whats gonna happen: A
guy like me for instance, if I have a very low balance in my phone, I
will use my office phone which is free and try to increase the
balance… just for that increment of 1 rupee, I will gave to make 10
mins calls from a landline and end up paying (my company in this case)
100 times more to the landline service provider.
In the end, if you are smart enough to realise this, you wont go for
this one.. As far as getting new excitement like 3G , better GPRS, yah,
dream about it.. virgin is not exactly launching a brand new line of
service but, they are just borrowing form the TATA’s present
infrastructure so, what was there is going to be the same.. a’la
Vodaphone..
The only thing DIFFERENT you will see about it is new logos and another addition to endless mind numbing ads on TV and radio..
Virgin or any commercial provider for that matter is doing nothing
other than fooling the ‘Bholi Junta’ into huge expectations and peanuts
in return…
My idea, stick to your own service provider.. if you change, its gonna suck a lot.