Vodafone Mumbai: 3G Pay As You Use - 2p/10kb or 10p/10kb ?

[amish]

Just noticed on vodafone home page.

They are now offering online chat support.

Hopefully that would be better than Vel India or such bots!

Link I get from their home page:
Vodafone Live Chat

Looks like some sort of tieup with some 3rd party

 

[amish]

Trying it.First it does not support Firefox on Linux. Tells me that browser is compatible. Even though it supports Firefox on Windows.So I faked user agent. So now it stops complaining about browser.But wait now it keeps redirecting me to same front page and keeps asking me for my number.Strangly it says that I already have "chat session" running.But I dont see any chat area on the page. i.e. I dont see chat box.It just keeps showing same page.Ok I give up.. does not work for me.

 

[sachins]

During that validy, you will be charged 2p/10KB for extra download beyond free mb.

After the validity, any download is 10p/10KB.
Thanks for the answer.

I was looking at other operators basic(no need for any subscription plan) tariff for 3g data. There are four 3g operators in mumbai.

Mtnl charges 2p/10kb
Airtel charges 3p/10kb
Reliance charges 10p/10kb
and finally
Vodafone charges 10p/10kb

I guess both Reliance and Vodafone are not interested in people using 30-50mb data/month. Instead they want people who use 500mb-1gb/month. This makes sense because it increases revenue/earnings per subscriber.

First it does not support Firefox on Linux. Tells me that browser is compatible. Even though it supports Firefox on Windows.
Browser support is pathetic. This reminds of indian online banking sites. They too have a problem with supporting non-microsoft browsers.
This browser is not compatible with chat. Please use one of the following browsers:

On Windows 2000, Windows NT 4.0, Windows 98 and Windows 95:
Internet Explorer version 5.0, 5.5, 6.0, 7.0, 8.0
Netscape version 6,7.0,7.1
Netscape Communicator version 4.7
Mozilla Firefox version 1.0.4, 2.x, 3.0

On Windows XP:
Internet Explorer version 6.0, 7.0, 8.0

On Mac OS:
Internet Explorer version 5.0, 5.5
Netscape version 6.1
Netscape Communicator version 4.7

 

[amish]

No the thing here is. Banking sites either dont support firefox at all or supports it.Here this vodafone chat thing, supports firefox on windows but not linux.Makes no sense.

 

[Sushubh]

same considering chrome (webkit) based browsers are probably the dominating ones in the indian market today.

 

[sachins]

No the thing here is. Banking sites either dont support firefox at all or supports it.
I had an unusual problem with baroda online banking using firefox. Everything worked except payment transfer which would give a popup error followed by a session expired page. I didn't understand the problem until I read the footer note on the banking index page saying that "firefox version 3.5.2 was supported". I was using a updated version of firefox. The bank solved this issue just recently.

 

[Sushubh]

also... as it used to be on icici login page... you need to have flash enabled for login as they were using flash based cookie solution. i think they changed that behavior recently.

 

[sachins]

Also almost every indian bank uses java for login. That's why it is impossible to login on an indian banking website through android since they don't support java. I think many indian banks have released their own android apps which use an sms as a form of verification.