Sms – Petrol Bhai Bhai
In the last three months
petrol prices were hiked almost five times, if I am not wrong. Everyone, just
everyone went on ranting about it. So much that it became a trending topic on
Twitter. The whole world was wondering what exactly Rs. 3 meant! Petrol prices
affected us or not, whether we were driving a diesel or a petrol car or
traveling all over the nation in flights, all of us were cribbing about it.
However little did anyone pay much importance to our dearest service providers
treating mobile phones like cars/airplanes and the sim as petrol tank and the
balance as if PETROL.
P.S. The pictures are downloaded from the internet and then edited.
Name it – Airtel, Vodafone,
Docomo, Aircel… Each and every one of them who came out with lifetime validity,
one paisa per second schemes, unlimited SMS packs, internet packs suddenly and
secretly changed schemes.
First of all they changed
lifetime validity scheme. No more your sim will be valid for life, so no, you
don’t have to laugh along with Ranbir Kapoor when he cracks joke about your
late grandma has recharged a new lifetime scheme. Rather your life is now
limited to six months. So after every six months you start panicking about life
being really short!
Then about the epic “ONE PAISA
PER SECOND” scheme. I still remember when Aircel launched free calls from
Aircel to Aircel. People sitting side by side were calling each other to know
“Time kya hua”. But then Airtel and Vodafone went against Aircel, blocked calls
from Aircel and Aircel introduced one paisa per second along with Docomo. Every
one of us fell for Docomo’s schemes. So did I. Plus their lovely SMS scheme of
pay for first two sms and then 100 free. And now, all this is history.
It is either 1.2 paisa per second
for same provider calls or 1.4 paisa per second to others. (If am not wrong) So
you can laugh your heart out at our own tomfoolery.
Yesterday I went to recharge
my internet pack and the next shocker came when the shop owner told me 1GB for
98 and 2GB for 149. Ok Fine. I understand that our internet packs never get
finished. But WTF?!?!? 1GB for 98? I remember pulling my friend’s leg when
Docomo did the same and now I became the “Bakra”. Either you shut the 1GB
scheme or lower both the price and the data charges. Seriously you guys are
already so rich! How much do you want?
AND finally TRAI oh TRAI I
love you like I hate you. How do you bar people from messaging? Just few months
back I met a lovely American who was going all gaga about how much we use sms
and what lovely schemes we have and how lovely is the network here and then you
just have to do this? Tell me all of you in TRAI, were you guys having problem
managing your kids? Like staying wake whole night and messaging? You put a
stupid limit by giving no-valid-reasons!?! You want to stop bulk sms? Fine stop
them why stop us from messaging?!
Having said all these, we will
all get used to it. Now if by chance MTS or some stupid provider puts on a
commercial of free more SMS or balance I am straightaway going to slap the
people who made those commercials.
So forget ranting about transport
and wonder what you are going to do with your mobile bill now. Communication is
now a pain in your ass. Your mobile phone is nothing less than a car. Petrol
and your SMS or any balance is same. Yes Indo-China is not the only Bhai-Bhai
but SMS and Petrol too. :-x
P.S. The pictures are downloaded from the internet and then edited.
Sms – Petrol Bhai Bhai
Reviewed by Sudatta
on
September 29, 2011
Rating: 5
Reviewed by Sudatta
on
September 29, 2011
Rating: 5