Reduce your mobile bills! (or try atleast)

I just came across YourBillBuddy.com which aims at reducing your mobile phone bills by analyzing your existing bills and figuring out which bill plans from which provider suit you the best. The website only works with Indian cell phone providers but seems like a concept that could be used pretty much anywhere. What is does is analyze your call patterns (more long distance calls, more calls to hutch phones, more SMS than calls etc) and matches that against its database of bill plans from most mobile operators in India. The site then recommends a bill plan that will give you the lowest average bill per month based on your usage pattern. The site claims to cover the following operators Airtel, Hutch, Idea, Reliance, MTNL, Spice, BSNL and Tata Indicom. YourBillBuddy currently does not support corporate plans as the information about these plans is not publicly available. The only catch obviously is that you need to upload the bills to the website! There are some privacy issues here and if you're feeling concerned then you should read their privacy policy before signing up. Getting electronic bills should be fairly easy, as it was for me with my Airtel connection. Airtel lets your download your bills in a PDF file from their website which you can directly upload to YourBillBuddy. I'm currently in the process of trying it out and I'm glad to say, I'm already in a pretty decent bill plan :-). The reality however is that, in India, there are just too many service providers with too many bill plans. Its practically impossible to keep track of all of them and figure out the best one, especially since they keep changing the plans regularly! YourBillBuddy seems like a decent idea that if executed well could benefit a lot of people here in India.

Links

• YourBillBuddy.com
• YourBillBuddy Website Tour
• YourBillBuddy F.A.Q.