About Mobile Phones

Every call you make you tend to lose some money..... How?

Every time you make a call, you are not able to fully utilize the pulse that is available to you. Actually you are not using what you are paying for......

Consider you make a local call for 3 minutes 20 seconds from your BSNL landline to another BSNL landline. How many calls are you charged for?

Normally BSNL landline local call to another BSNL landline has a pulse of 3 minutes. So when you talk for 3 minutes 20 seconds.. . you are charged for 2 pulses... . So actually though you talked for 20 seconds on the second pulse, you are charged for 3 minutes of the second pulse.... . So you end up paying for 2 local calls.

Consider another provider who charges 60 ps per minute for a call from one mobile to another mobile. If you make a call for 1 minute 2 seconds.. ... here again you are charged for 2 pulse or 2 minutes. So you end up paying for 2 minutes even though you have used only 1 minute 2 seconds.. ..

Another situation is during call drops.... .. Call drops means a call getting cut due to problem with the network with neither the caller or recipient of the call cutting the call. In many such cases 2 to 5-second multiple calls are made and every time you end up paying for a minute even though you have hardly talked for a second.

Calls during roaming.. .. During roaming when you just want to say just a sentence and cut the call, you are paying for the time you have not talked. Worse is the case when you have to pay for wrong numbers while on roaming. Though you just say wrong number... you end up paying for the whole minute... ....

All these problems are solved by a new mobile provider. .... Tata Docomo... . It is Tata's GSM connection. Here you are charged on a per second basis and not on a per minute basis. So you actually pay only for what you have used.

So if you make a call for 2 minute 1 second, you only pay for 2 minute 1 second and not for 3 minutes.

Consider 2 cases,
1st case where the pulse is 60 paise per minute and
2nd case where pulse is 1 paisa per second.

By calculation, it looks as if you need to pay @60 ps per minute in both cases, but the difference is on a 1 second pulse, you save 1 second to 59 seconds on almost every call. Most of the calls we make are never made for the full pulse of 1 minute. So if you are making about 20 calls in a day you can save a maximum of 59 seconds * 20 calls = 1180 seconds, which is 19.6 minutes or nearly 20 minutes. @60ps/minute it comes to about Rupees 12 per day. In 365 days you save a maximum of Rs. 4380 @ 20 calls per day!

... do you feel 1 second pulse is better than 1 minute pulse.... what do you think?