Benefits of landline
over mobile phone
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Issues
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Landline
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Mobile phone
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Billing
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At the end of the month
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Prepaid at the beginning of the month
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Savings
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Saves one month interest
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Service provider uses your money to
earn interest.
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Handsets
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Avg life of handset 20 years
If cordless 3 to 5 years
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Avg life maximum 3years
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Capital cost
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One handset of Rs.1000 for 20 years.
One cordless handset of Rs.2000 every 5
years Rs.10000
Savings in capital cost on handset upto
Rs.1 lakh in 20years
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One handset every 3 years @ Rs.20000
for 20 years around
Rs.1.5 lakhs
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Internet
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Unlimited Internet @2mbps @Rs.600 pm.
(MTNL triband combo plan). Higher usage higher savings compared to 3G/4G
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Limited @3G/4G@ Rs.300 per GB. Avg
monthly usage 20 GB comes to Rs.6000 per month
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WIFI
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All devices can access if WIFI
installed.
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Only limited one device
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Call Drops
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Zero. Excellent call quality
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20 to 50% call drops with disturbance
in call quality.
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Call charges
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Re.1 per call (MTNL triband combo plan)
Unlimited from 10pm to 7am to any
network(MTNL)
Unlimited WIFI can be used for
unlimited facetime or whatsapp calls.
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Re.1 per call if best SP such as Vodafone
chosen. With rate cutter effective rate 0.50 paise. This is far lesser than
capital cost invested in hanset.
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Radiation
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Zero radiation
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Adverse effect on health as well as
enviorment.
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Disturbance
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Nil disturbance and distraction
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Full time disturbance and distraction
in form of continuous notifications from apps
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Update cost
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Zero
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Capital cost plus internet cost for
software and app updates
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Protection/Security cost
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Zero
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Handset protection cost in form of
skins and anti virus cost for software
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Camera
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No camera
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Not equivalent to any DSLR cameras
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Portability
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Cordless available
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Full portability
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Chatting
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Rich media chatting(Audio and video)
via unlimited internet on mobile through wifi
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Limited to selected plan. Fear of cost
over run
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After sales service
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Excellent
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Very poor or rare
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Reachability
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Whenever and wherever really required
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Even at unwanted places
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Advertisement calls
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Nil
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Every 2 hours unwanted calls
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Waste of time
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Nil
Time saved = Money saved
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Around 90% waste of time in receiving unwanted
calls, messages and notifications.
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Deletion time
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No text messages hence No deletion required.
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Daily 15 minutes = 5475 minutes per
year.
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