Nimbuzz India

Its Blog Poll results day again, and the “million dollar question” this time was, “How much you spend per month on GPRS usage?” The results were pretty evenly spread out; however the highest votes (31%) went to the category spending between Rs 50 and 100.

The results also reveal that 21 % of you spend Rs 101 to Rs 200 on GPRS usage per month, making it the second most used GPRS category. Significantly, a good 18% of you are spending above Rs 401 and above on GPRS usage per month, which is the highest range of data usage per month. This data usage is very similar to the lowest data usage category of below Rs 50 comprising of 19 % of the total votes.

Only 11% spend between Rs 201 and Rs 400, which makes it the least preferred range of GPRS usage.

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And the results for the Blog poll ‘Which mobile plan do you use?’ are out, and an overwhelming 76% of you prefer a prepaid mobile plan over a postpaid one.

Though your preference is very clear, maybe you would also like to refer to our previous posts on Mobile data plans in India:

• BSNL GPRS rates and usage details across India
• MTNL GPRS pricing and usage details across India
• Airtel Mobile Office pricing and usage details across India
• Vodafone Mobile Connect pricing and usage details across India

This way you can get a greater clarity on the various plans available with the popular operators in the country and make an even more informed choice

Postpaid is used by only 24% of you as your mobile plan to communicate probably because of the variety of offers, reduction in tariff plans and the comfort of one time payment.

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Its Blog poll results time again!! This time the results of the poll running on your preferred GPRS plans show Airtel Mobile Office as the most preferred GPRS plan with 48% of your votes.

The next popular plan is Aircel Pocket Internet which has polled 14% of the votes cast. BSNL GPRS and Vodafone Mobile Connect are preferred by 13 and 12 percent of you respectively. Idea and MTNL GPRS bring up the rear logging 8% and 1% respectively. ‘Others’ collectively add up to 5% of the total votes cast.

Airtel Mobile office with 48% matches the combined preference of the other popular GPRS plans like, Vodafone Mobile Connect, Idea GPRS, Aircel Pocket Internet, and MTNL GPRS.

This high preference of Airtel Mobile Office can be attributed to the large volume of Airtel subscribers in India. MTNL with only 1% preference amongst the GPRS plans is last amongst them as MTNL is prevalent in the Metro cities only.

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The results are out on the poll, which Nimbuzz service you use the most? We would like to thank all of you for participating in the poll.

The poll indicates that 61% of you use Chat service the most. The VOIP service came second at 31% preferred usage. Geo Presence and other services are the most used for only 4% and 2% respectively.

The dominance of Chat in our poll can be attributed to the fact that with Nimbuzz you get connected on Gtalk, Orkut, Facebook, Yahoo and many other IM services and social Networks.

What we found very interesting is that, VoIP is the second most preferred service on Nimbuzz in spite of it not being available on Mobiles in India. Which means that a lot of are also using Nimbuzz on your PCs and enjoying the benefit of VoIP.

It is heartening to see that 4% find Geo Presence service the most valuable. We will be interested in knowing more about your experience with the same.

Similarly 3% have preferred the other services of Nimbuzz’s, such as Image Sharing, Buzz, and Voice Message. These other services are very functional in today’s constantly on the move lifestyle, such as Image sharing, where you can click image directly from your mobile and send it to your contacts online or offline through Nimbuzz across your social networks. Whereas with Buzz, you can buzz your offline contacts and inform them that you are online, which they will receive in real time on their mobile. We salute you for being ahead of the curve.

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And you have spoken! The results of the poll on what our users think of Nimbuzz services are out.

The ‘buzz’ about Nimbuzz is that nearly half (46%) of our users consider Nimbuzz’ services to be ‘Excellent’. The bulk of the voters for this poll are from India. And for the first time we also have responses from far away locations like the Middle East, Japan, Australia and Africa.

Thank you for choosing Nimbuzz. We are always working towards better services for our users and would like to hear more from you. For example – We would love to know how Nimbuzz is working with Aircel Pocket Internet. Do let us know if you need our assistance in case anything goes wrong. You can reach us via our Nimbuzz Forum, Blog, Twitter and Support Email (support@nimbuzz.com).

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The Verdict for the Second Nimbuzz Blog Poll is out and we would like to thank each one of you for your time and your votes.

The poll results indicate a 73% preference for Nimbuzz Mobile, while Nimbuzz Desktop came in second at 14%. Nimbuzz Mobile Web and Nimbuzz Web were amongst minorities, with 10% and 3% respectively.

The popularity of Nimbuzz mobile over and above our other access options is not surprising as recent figures show a very high growth in mobile users. There are many factors that are present in the market acting as a driving force to the mobile adoption market, including sachet based VAS facilities in India available with Reliance Communication (RCom), and the Aircel Pocket internet.

However Nimbuzz Desktop, our second most used client, is obviously preferred by some of the 403.66 million Indian wireless users, second only to China that has more than 600 million wireless subscribers according to the Telecom Regulatory Authority of India figures, revealed in June 2009. The figures also highlight the growth in wireless of more than 90 percent in less than 4 years to 771 million by 2013. According to a release from IMAI on Active internet users in India, in September 2008 India had 45.3 million active internet users dominated by urban users who make up 42 million of the total.

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The results of the first Nimbuzz India Blog polls are out!!!

69% of Nimbuzz users stayed connected with GoogleTalk when online with Nimbuzz, which also includes the people you are connected to on Orkut.

Looking at the results we can see that GoogleTalk leaps ahead of Yahoo at 23%, and Facebook at 9%. GoogleTalk’s numbers are also boosted by the dynamic Orkut on Nimbuzz community in India who use Gtalk as their chatting engine on Nimbuzz.

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