Bihar-twarming news! The Uninor subscribers can
now SMS away to glory for only Rs. 4. Free SMS plans in Bihar start from Rs.
27.
Before
we start gloating away about our super-sasta, super-accha SMS plans in Bihar,
let’s start with a more fundamental question – why do people find this eternal
mobile feature called short messaging service so useful? Why is it that when
most technologies are made irrelevant the next day, this technology has carried
on through decades, and even with newer, freer, more easier-to-use communication
tools (read, smartphone-friendly apps) such as Whatsapp, Line, WeChat, etc., and
the call rates headed towards a downward spiral like a fighter jet that has
just had both its wings blasted away mid air?
The
answer is simple. Yet two fold. When you want to use the so called “newer,
freer, more easier-to-use communication tools” and contact a friend, you are
not always sure that the friend on the other side is using the same app. So it
makes that app not all that accessible and far reaching. SMS is universal. You
just have to know a number (and ensure that your SMSes have not been blocked by
the other number) and you can message them all you want.
Also,
although call rates have dropped significantly over the past few years, and
there are even packs to reduce them further over a period of time, still common
sense and courtesy dictates that you cannot, or ought not to call the other
person up for anything and everything. So what’s the next best thing? Obviously
SMS. In this way you can say the little (but important) things you want to say,
without putting the other person in pressure of immediately acknowledging that
communication or being obliged to respond to it.
Keeping
in mind the importance of SMSes in people’s lives, Uninor have introduced some
very beneficial SMS packs
in Bihar. You can check them out here: http://www.uninor.in/plans-offers/Pages/sms-packs.aspx