BPL Mobile's constant innovation and investments in state-of-the-art technology have resulted in its offering subscribers a series of innovative services. Recently, BPL Mobile launched MobileCommerce powered by Citibank, Power Messaging Services, Mobile Long Distance and Internet e-mail on your mobile.

MobileCommerce: BPL Mobile has announced the launch of MobileCommerce, in exclusive patnership with Citibank. It gives the customer the ability to transact on-line, and in real-time through his BPL mobilephone. BPL Mobile's Transactional Mobile Banking is just the first step to this end. With Transactional Mobile Banking, one can transfer funds, check balances, pay mobilephone bills, make credit card payments, book deposits, stop cheque payment, resquest cheque books and more. Shortly, additional services will be added to MobileCommerce, making visits to the bank a thing of the past. Transactional Mobile Banking is easy to operate. All you have to do is send simple text messages through your mobile phone and leave the hassles of banking to BPL Mobile and Citibank. Citibank account holders and Citibank credit card customers are beneficiaries of this service.

POWER MESSAGING: It offers 20 information services. Some of the services are Sending and Receiving Messages, Utility, Entertainment, Emergency and Business.

Utility: This feature provides the latest sport, national and international news. It also provides information on day and night taxi and autorickshaw services and tariff fares, addresses of nearest ATM centres, train schedules, city-wise weather reports for the next four days and STD/ISD codes.

Entertainment: The best way to plan an evening out. With this service one can choose movies, hangouts and pubs, one would like to go to. If you want to find out the current show running at Eros theatre, you do not have to scan the newspaper. Just key in Move Eros, send the Power Message to 333 and get the details of the movie running and the show timings, instantly.

Emergency: For ambulances, blood banks, chemists, police, hospitals, fire stations, BEST and BSES information nearest to you. Just key in E (emergency) A (Ambulance) Dadar and send it to 333, to get a Power Message with the name, address, telephone number of the ambulance service in Dadar and around.

Business: Access live stock quotes (the latest traded rate and time of the trade) and forex rates of all the major currencies on the move. One has to key in FOREX USD and send it to 333 to get the US dollar rate in an instant, wherever you are.

Mobile Long Distance: This revolutionary feature allows subscribers to make prepaid STD/ISD calls from the existing mobile number and this feature can be activated for a low activation fee.

Internet e-mail on the mobile: All BPL mobile subscribers can send or receive Internet e-mail on their mobiles. From now onwards all BPL mobile subscribers can dispatch or receive Internet e-mail to or from any corner in the world from their mobilephone. Your e-mail address is ``Your mobile number'' @bplmobile.com

By :Mani D'Mello

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