J&K

IDEA Cellular launches GSM services in J&K

October 14, 2009 By yogen 1 Comment

IDEA J&K

Earlier this year, IDEA Cellular had released its plans to launch its GSM service in 5 new circles which included West Bengal, Kolkata, North East, Assam and J&K. Well, a few days back we saw IDEA making a quite entry in Kolkata, now they have even successfully launched their services in the J&K circle.

The bad news is that, IDEA Cellular won’t be available in the whole of J&K circle. To initiate their operations, IDEA Cellular’s network will only be available in Jammu City, Bari Brahmana, Bishnah, Katra, Udhampur and Jammu-Katra Highway regions. Other major towns in J&K like Srinagar, Lakhanpur, Badgam, Anantnag, Mattan, Kulgam, Pulwama, Shopian, Ganderbal, Patan and Sumbal will be covered gradually.

J&K and few other areas to witness ban on prepaid connections

January 11, 2009 By Rohan Kamath Leave a Comment

Coming Feb, telecom users from J&K and some other areas, particularly from the North Eastern belt, may have to switch to postpaid connections, as the telecom regulator along with the defence ministry is considering a ban on prepaid connections in there areas.

The decision would decide the fate some million users, who already use prepaid connections in these areas. According to sources, this count could go upto 8-9 million as the areas account for about 10 million mobile users. The ministry had set a deadline, which falls in the mid of next month and may likely be extended for a while till a collective decision isn’t taken from the authorities.

7.62 million GSM subscribers added in November

December 17, 2008 By Rohan Kamath Leave a Comment

November witnessed 7.62 million new subscribers getting on to the GSM bandwagon. The addition though enormous, falls short of last months figure of 7.67 million. This has taken the GSM subscriber base from 241 million to 249 million, thus clocking a healthy 3.32% increase. Here’s how the players contributed to the final figure:

Airtel: 2.72 million
Vodafone Essar: 2.06 million
Idea Cellular: 1.2 million
Spice Communications: 68,765
BSNL: 0.67 million

From the geographic perspective, J&K, which experienced launch of services from new players saw the highest additions at 6.31% closely followed by Bihar at 5.12%. Not surprisingly, the smaller towns are adding a lot more subscribers to the revolution as compared to the metros, which are on the verge of getting exhausted.

Tata Indicom comes to J&K

December 4, 2008 By Kunal Gangar Leave a Comment

Tata Indicom’s is marching towards their goal of attaining a pan-India presence. After launching their services in Assam a month before, Tata Teleservices have announced their services for the residents of Jammu & Kashmir. TTSL will bring in a variety of services like prepaid/postpaid mobile phone services, fixed wireless telephony (Walky Talky) and a lot more.

The first pack to be introduced will be the Go Active pack priced at Rs. 199 that will allow subscribers to call local Tata to Tata at 50 paise whereas STD calls at Re. 1.

The company has already installed 100 cell sites and injected over 100 crores worth of investment for seamless data and voice quality in the circle.