If you are using Dhiraagu Mobile Service and travelling to Sri lanka then you have good roaming rate.

You should select Dialog as the operator when you reach Sri Lanka, you can make and receive calls at the rate of MRF 9.50 which is very cheep when compared to the usual roaming charges.

Now Dhiraagu has International roaming in pre activated in pre paid connections, but I don’t think many use this service as the International roaming rates are so high. I was using it earlier when I was travelling, but these days I try to avoid and use a local SIM card instead.

In my last post regarding the reliability of opinion polls through SMS, I had mentioned the loop holes of this kind of polls. It has been found that lots of irregularities has happened in this poll.

One of the Dhiraagu user received about 600 acknowledgement messages “Thank you for your vote” before the poll had started. DRP has complained that more than 12,000 of their supporters voted for this and the results show only 2000. Lots of sims were purchased to support different candidates.

Such kind of polls are done to know the popularity of the candidates and not really the correct result. Most of the candidates competing for the Presidential election is against this poll and its stopped now

Dhiraagu is the leading telecom services provider in Maldives and has completed 20 long years of services. On occasion of the 20th Anniversary, Dhiraagu has great offers for their customers. If you use Dhiraagu service, you should know the offers

• FREE local calls between fixed lines, 6pm to 6am every day, and for 24 hours on Fridays,
• 50% discount on national calls between fixed lines, 6pm to 6am every day, and for 24 hours on Fridays,
• FREE local MMS between Dhiraagu mobiles, and
• 20 FREE local voice call minutes, between Dhiraagu mobiles.

This offer is valid for the month of October 2008

Dhiraagu has great offers for Ramadan. I was really surprised while reading the offers on their website. The competition between the telecom operators in Maldives has really blessed the subscribers of Dhiraagu. During Ramadan, you are eligible for winning loads of prices, cash price if you are lucky, free wifi usage, eligible for winning MRF 100,000 if you recharge or reload for more than MRF 100 for pre-paid subscribers, using GPRS, free credit if you reload on Fridays and lot more. Check it out yourself. Services like  checking the menu of a restaurant, prices of vegetables, recipes.

Dhiraagu has permanently reduced the rate of new prepaid connection from MRF 99 to MRF 50 which includes a talk time of MRF 20. This is something useful. Recently Dhiraagu had announced a special rate from International call to India, Bangladesh and sri Lanka. The international calls to India is very low as compared to calling from India. When I was in India last month, I used a Vodafone connection and did some call to Maldives. The rates are much higher and the billing was per minute. For example if you make a call from India for just 25 seconds, you need to pay for 1 minute and its around INR 9.00

Dhiraagu has announced a special rate for International calls i.e Mrf 1.99 per minute to India, Bangladesh and Saudi Arabia during Ramadan. This I feel is the lowest rate offered till now and you do not need to use 019 code, but 00 + the country code. This offer is available for 24 hours a day during Ramadan.

For more information, Visit the Dhiraagu press release

Dhiraagu has introduced a new service where Dhiraagu Mobile users can receive the  information related to the a particular Doctor or a specific Department of IGMH (Indira Gandhi Memorial Hospital). This should be very helpful for the people in the Maldives.

To get IGMH OPD duty via SMS, simply send an SMS to 446 with the Keyword
IGMH followed by the first 3 letters of the information you require.

Each SMS sent to 446 will be charged Rf 1

This is a value added service from Dhiraagu. You can find more information at the Dhiraagu Website

Dhiraagu is the leading Internet service provider in Maldives. It recently announced its new broadband package

Dhiraagu is the first and top service provider in Maldives. Recently Dhiraagu launched the IDD019 service which is a International call service at cheaper rate. Still services like Skype and other VOIP services are cheaper. There are lots of expatriates living in Maldives who need to make International Phone calls. This service should be a boon to them as they may not have facility of Internet connection

Wataniya telecoms is the other service provider in Maldives. They do not have fixed line service.

Dhiraagu recently launched a new service through which users can make international calls at a cheaper rate. In this you need to dial 019 instead of 00 which is the prefix for making international calls. You can find more information about this on the Dhiraagu Website Press release

I was walking around on Friday which is a holiday for all the workers and found this promotion going on.