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With city limits expanding time and again, communication
and travel ought to have been difficult, but Pune
springs a surprise. Easy to travel and even get
connected to near and dear ones back home, this
is a perfect city to live in! Especially away from
home.
TELEPHONES/FAXES
Walking down any road, lane or streets you'll find
yellow boards with either PCO/STD/ISD or Xerox which
you should keep a lookout for. One can find fax
facilities mostly with the telephone booths, especially
the ones in shopping complexes or in buildings.
Telephone booths are something you would get everywhere.
For the large number of students, many telephone
booths have started giving facilities to receive
calls at nominal charges from parents, friends or
relatives. In fact, you can even find the Zip phones
in their trademark red colours installed at the
most popular hangouts and joints, which makes it
easy to stay connected!
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Carry
loose change always for the coin operated
telephones, as many a time it's something
difficult to find. Be careful to read the
instructions as many don't accept old coins
and some are accepted either before or after
dialing the number. |
Only a couple of Telephone booths are open 24 hours
and most of the booths shut by 11:30 p.m. or later
depending on the customers. In the outskirts, telephones
are less. Instead of driving on, stop at the first
booth you see. Always remember to ask the counter
person if he has change for your call before you
dial.
In hotels and fancy shops, you are charged extra
for local calls-which can range from Rs.5 to Rs.10
depending on the whims, fancies and service taxes,
off course!
CYBER CAFÉS
Pune has very heavily caught up with the net
culture in the last two-three years. With students
and corporates all catching e-mail and e-business
alike, a number of cyber cafes have sprung up all
over town. Pune holds about 300+ cyber cafes. Areas
of Camp, Kondhwa, Kothrud, Deccan, Aundh have cyber
cafes in every street. The rates range from as low
as Rs 10 to Rs 60. Be sure to inquire about the
rates and also coffee as many give you a cup free
with one hour of surfing. |
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Also
most cyber cafes will allow you to use
their softwares to prepare office documentation
or presentation at nominal costs. Colour
printouts, scanning, and even video
conferencing facilities are offered
by a lot of cyber cafes. |
Besides, most of these cyber cafes are air-conditioned,
provide good and efficient service and are
extremely polite!
MOBILES
Covered by the best of mobile service brands
in India, i.e BPL and Birla AT&T, the
city is also widely networked and is a
hotbed for communication services! While
connectivity is usually good except for
in basement discotheques and pubs, both
brands suit the pocket and the purpose.
Also paging services like Hotline, Easy
Call, Max Page and Mobilink help keep you
connected no matter wherever you are. Infact,
these days renting a mobile or a pager
would work out cheaper than getting a telephone
line…. |
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