Come February and all pre-paid mobile customers may have to say good-bye to their service as the Bharat Sanchar Nigam Limited has stopped giving new pre-paid connection and is in the process of turning the pre-paid service to post paid service.
Speaking to The Sangai Express an official of the BSNL said that all mobile service providers have to get the pre-paid service extended each year from the Department of Telecommunication.
However for this year, no extension has been given, said the official.
The BSNL office at New Delhi has already intimated to all the Chief Managers of the company to stop issuing fresh pre-paid connection from next month in Jammu and Kashmir and the North East States, said the official.
The primary reason for the decision to stop pre-paid service in the North East and Jammu and Kashmir could be the wrong usage of the service, said the official, who however hastened to add that Manipur takes a lot more care while issuing pre-paid service to any new customer.
Since 2004, when mobile service arrived at Manipur, the pre-paid service has been extended for a year every February.
The current validity of the pre-paid service expires on February 22 and it may not be renewed this time, said the official.
The official further informed that as of now there are 1,20,000 pre-paid BSNL customers in the State.
As per instructions from the head office of the BSNL, pre-paid SIM cards and recharge coupons with a validity period of over three months, which are ready to be handed to customers may be withdrawn from the market any time, informed the official further.
The other instructions issued by the BSNL include possible activation of pre-paid general SIMs with validity of 90 days for upto November 21, 2008 and balance pre-paid SIMs be withdrawn from the market; revision of the minimum recharge conditions of 6 months and fixed as 90 days with recharge/top up coupons of Rs 100 under new amount and Rs 25 under old amount; in case any physical withdrawal of RCVs and SIMs is not possible, the same may be blocked in the IN system and customers may be suitably educated well in advance that pre-paid service may not be available with effect from February 22, 2009 and they can switch to any available post paid schemes.
To a query, the official said that the pre-paid service of the BSNL may exist for some time but no such fresh connection will be given from February.
Earlier, BSNL issued only a certain number of post paid connection, but once the new arrangement comes into force, there will be no such restriction, said the official.
Source: The Sangai Express
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January 18th, 2009 at 6:54 pm
BSNL in prepaid an pekchhuah loh vanga “NE may bod adieu…’ tih daih mai chu a dik chiah awm lo mange. Anni chauh server anni si lova.
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January 18th, 2009 at 10:06 pm
BANL Poh extend phal loh chuan adang poh phal loh mai hmel ve
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January 18th, 2009 at 11:04 pm
Airtel pre-paid life time ka nei a; kum AD 2015 thleng vel ni tain ka hria. Rs 200 man vel ‘a top up an ti maw ni’ ka thun a; Lengpuia ka tum leh rual chiahin ka vuah leh mai dawn a ni! BSNL-a ka lo ti lem lo chu a nihlawhthlak mang e.
Mak ve deuh chu he lamah AT&T hmang thin ka ni a; Kolkata-ah buangbarin Vaipa SIM Card ka hawh chawp a; Rs 400 + Coupon a lo ngai a. He lama chhuk thlak dawn aruaiah AT&T chu ka’n tawngpawng vuah ve ngawt a, ka Cell phone-ah … kei mi mawl hian! Ka duh duh ka be tlang thei vek hi a lo ni a …
AIRCEL, Sairang atanga biakpawh nei thei thathum mang lo; RELIANCE, reliable vak mang si lo kha chu mahni leh mahni kan intihrehawm thlawn ve mai niin ka hria. BSNL pawh … kan han dial ngei a, an lo pick a. Thu kan han sawi dawn chauh a … a tawp a. Hallo man a to duh khawp mai! Kan dial hnema an lo pick tingtang bawk si avangin … hriat loh karin pawisa kan lo seng hnem hle thin mai a; an system a function that loh poh leh BSNL kha an hlawk zawk mai lo’ng maw ti tein kei mimawl chhaw bawk si hi chuan ka dawn ve vung vung thin.
Tih tak emah chuan, Airtel pawh lifetime kan tih lai chuan Rs 999 kan pe a; a hnuah Rs 400 vel chauh alawm te an ti zui a. SMS duli man leka tih theihna tur te kha a hranpain Coupon (Top Up an tia maw ni) kan han lei belh a; a hnuah duli ikhaw-in kan sms leh thei chuang lo; an hlawkna tur zelin an dap thiam a; an ta a ni a. Kan hawhsak ve mai a nia! An sum lakluh dan tur lamah customer-te min rawn a ngai lem lo reng a ni. Customer-te hian kan duh khu huam lahtak si a.
Customer 120,000 vel zet Pre-paid nei lawk tawhte chu Post-paid nei zui turin an hui lut kim thei thuak mai lo’ng maw? Kan duh tawh na laileng hi chu kan duh em hlawm hi maw?
BSNL kaltlang chauhvin e-mail facilities pawh Zoram chuan kan la ti thei a ni lawm ni? BSNL chu ka fak lo thei lo engemaw ti tak siin, anni kha awm ta lo se, kan ram Chanchinbu mite khan radio leh Tv-a ngaithlain, thu thar an la khawm tlauh tlauh mai dawn a ni a; milem tarlan tur lah web kaltlangin a tha tha hman a theih bawk tawh si! BSNL kha faktlak chu an ni thlawt! Vanglaini tia tia hnawh khat ni tin tur kha chuan an inngaithlain, an inziak daih seng lo mai thei asin! An tih chin chinah chuan ka fak hlawm vek mai. Inelna mawihnai kha a awm phawt chuan mipui tan a tha lehzual khawp ang.
Airtel-te khan ti thei dawn awm thuak thuak khan an insawi ve thin a; an ti thei tawh em?
Vodaphone velin Zoram a thleng tawh em?
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January 19th, 2009 at 12:14 am
BSNL chu kan ngam lo anih hi an duh dan2 in an tia mipui kan phun lungawi leh vel mai mai a. Vodaphone tih velin zoram la thleng nang aw..Kha lamah tha viau emaw ni le
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January 19th, 2009 at 1:18 am
chawnghilh comment hi sei thei ltk a…ka chhiar chhuah tlem ang reng a comment hi!!! no offense!!!
tun a mi poh hi 1st para chu ka chhiar chhuak hram eeeeeeeee
ka chhiar hma in ka in surrender zel!!!!
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January 19th, 2009 at 2:00 am
@drake : A pawi lo, i chhiar chhuah loh pawn. Ka ziak a, ka ziak zo tawh. Tu ziak pawh ka chhiar vek zel a, kan inang lo a ni mai! Not to antagonize you! I get the thrill of reading as much lines you jotted, even between the lines —I ponder!
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January 19th, 2009 at 2:44 am
Kei chu Chawnghilh comment hi chu ka chhiarchhuah mai bakah ka zir thin,mi tawnhriat ngah piah lamah chhiarhriat leh hmuhhriat ngah ka ti lo thei lo.Thui viau amaw ka tih pawh hi ka rin aiin ka chhiarchhuak hma ziah.
Thil reng reng a ho emaw ho lo emaw a ti hmasa be rtu hi an fak awm chawk(a tha lamah)Chutiang bawkin BSNL pawh an fakawm.Mahseee….
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January 19th, 2009 at 5:10 am
Keipawh chawnghilh comment pek hi ngaihnawm ka ti thei khawp mai, ka chhiar kuit thak zel.
Thildang kan zawt lawk teh ang che u, cellphone tower leh damdawiin inhnaih lutuk hi a pawi em? kan khuaah tunah hian airtel in an phun dawn a, a bul lawk 50metres chu damdawiin a ni, mimal ram pek lo sawisel chu a dik vak bawk silo.
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January 19th, 2009 at 10:58 am
Prepaid zong zong hi titawp daih sela pawi lo reng reng. Kum 7 BSNL postpaid ka hmang tawha. a thra ka la ti ber.
no prepaid means less users, hmang an tlem deuh tawh anga. network busy lutuk pawh a zia mahna. hehe.
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January 19th, 2009 at 2:09 pm
sonju_a : a pawi na lai awm theih rual in…a pawi lohna lai pawh awm thei ang chu!!! In khaw Hospital a changkang viau anih chuan ….. an medical equipment te changkang viau anih chuan…. a functioning hi cell phone hian ti buai thei awm in an sawi thin…… Hei chu a tower din tu tur comapany hian an hre mai ang!!! chuan in khaw CMO pawn a hria ang chu…..
Advantage na chu Hospital tang signal a tha ang a……. Hospital leh Fire, Police tih vel hian signal chu nei tha se a tha ang……..
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January 19th, 2009 at 2:30 pm
# 8 Sonju_a : Cellphone signal tower hi chenna hmun atang chuan 100 metres aia hnai lovah chuan awm thei se duhthusam niin an sawi. Signal chak tak tak a pek chhuah bakah frequency sang tak tak a awm a, hei vang hian a bikin naupang/ nausen tan a tha lo ve thei niin an sawi.
Tin, tunlaia Biak In leh public function vela kan hman FM microphone te hi atam zawk chu Very High Frequency (VHF) an nih avangin mobile signal inman tawn hi a awm duh khawp mai. Hemi pumpelh nan hian UHF hi hmang thei ila a ziaawm thie ang.
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January 19th, 2009 at 2:34 pm
Aizawla bsnl pa-paid or nu-paid (
) hman tum chu ektum biak tawng tum ang vel a ni…. Aircel a hman tlak ber… Airtel GPRS te khian ka nuih an ti kuhhhhh 
ablahblahblahblahhhh
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January 19th, 2009 at 6:56 pm
Dik
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January 20th, 2009 at 9:40 am
comment no.3 chawnghilh …. i thusawi hi dik ka ti khawp mai..BSNL tello chuan…tun hi kan ni lo hrim hrim
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January 20th, 2009 at 3:06 pm
Kanidar, em em ache…i nui mawi lo bon..a hmasa zawkah a nuilai a kutin a han inhup ngei a….akekekek
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January 20th, 2009 at 3:37 pm
Awi thaw
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January 21st, 2009 at 1:21 pm
Read this
“The lady gave me a SIM card which was again priced at Rs.250. This time I happened to look at the MRP, which was Rs.45.”
“The lady explained to me that this card was pre-activated, with someone else’s name, that if I wanted a SIM card in my own name, then I would have to go to alot of trouble of submitting a xerox copy of my ID etc.”
https://lazymaydays.blogspot.co.....zoram.html
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