BSNL told to return Vodafone’s Rs 33 lakh port fee - Times of India

BSNL told to return Vodafone’s Rs 33 lakh port fee - Times of India

NEW DELHI: The telecom tribunal TDSAT has set aside BSNL's demand of nearly Rs 33 lakh as port charges against Vodafone, asking the state-run company to refund the amount already paid by the private operator along with 12% interest. The tribunal also directed the PSU to pay Rs 50,000 as litigation cost to Vodafone.

To avoid being disconnected from BSNL's network, Vodafone had already paid some portions of the three bills of Rs 24.69 lakh, Rs 4.9 lakh and Rs 2.8 lakh in July 2011 for its Maharashtra circle.

"The impugned demands cannot be sustained. They are set aside accordingly. Respondent ( BSNL) is hereby directed to refund the amount deposited by the petitioner (Vodafone) on the threat of disconnection with interest at the rate of 12% per annum from the date on which they are deposited till the date of actual refund ... petitioner shall be entitled to costs. Advocate's fee is quantified at Rs 50,000." said the tribunal.

T-Mobile Signal Finally Fails On My Unlocked iPhone - Consumerist.com

I had been happily using my iPhone 3GS with T-Mobile for around two
years now, and another 2 or so years prior with a first gen iPhone.

Because of the lack of compatible 3G service, I had to use EDGE which
is perfectly fine by me.

Around the beginning of this year, I began having serious signal
issues with my iPhone 3GS on T-Mobile's network.

My phone would spend 50% or more of its time with "No Service", and I
could confirm the same behavior on other iPhones including my first
gen and an unlocked Blackberry Tour.

Of course, when I borrowed a 3G Android phone from T-Mobile from a
co-worker, all worked fine.

First call to support in Jan resulted in a trouble ticket being
opened, and them discovering a problem with the local tower, which
they claimed to have fixed.

Due to being extremely busy, I couldn't follow up for a few months. I
started bugging support once again in March/April about the lack of
service. Got the run around, various admissions of there could be a
problem, but most likely not but they'll still look into it.

Finally, service got so bad I was down to around 10% of the time
having an actual signal. Called support again, and got an actual
engineer on the phone who was able to tell me exactly what kind of
changes they've been doing in my area.

Low and behold, the exact same time when my service went into the
toilet was when they 'upgraded' my area for '4G' service.

But, unfortunately, they wouldn't be able to help me any further with
this issue because the iPhone is not a supported phone, and I should
have it checked out because it is most likely having hardware issues
because the service is working fine in my area. There was also some
mutterings about how EDGE service is obsolete and likely to go away
soon enough.

But, on the bright side, they are more then willing to sell me a brand
new Android phone with 3G service to replace my obviously broken
iPhone!

Fast forward to last week - I'm pissed off, and angry, so I order a
StraightTalk AT&T SIM card and the unlimited service no-contract
plan.

Got it yesterday, shoved it in my phone, ported my number, and the
phone has 4 bars of service, 3G works fine, as does EDGE.

Some quick calls to friends in NJ and even to Texas report the exact
same problems with their iPhones on T-Mobile.

T-Mobile seems to be throwing iPhone users who are stuck on EDGE under
the bus in their effort to 'upgrade' to '4G'. Rather then admit
they're upgrades are fouling up EDGE, they're blaming hardware
problems with people's iPhones, most likely in an effort to sell more
Android phones.

!@#$%^! But, what do you expect from the only major carrier without an
iPhone?