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Tata Teleservices crossed the 10 million subscriber mark in Maharashtra

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Tata Group and Tata Teleservices (TTSL) subsidiary, Tata Teleservices Maharashtra Ltd. (TTML) today claimed crossing the 10 million subscriber base mark in the region. The region that comes under TTML comprise of the Mumbai, Maharashtra and Goa circles.

Tata Teleservices which operates under both GSM and CDMA technologies has been lately investing a lot in its infrastructure development and researching and developing new products and services.

Expressing happiness and joy, Dr. Mukund Govind Rajan, Managing Director, TTML, said, “We are humbled by the response and the trust our consumers have reposed in us. We will continue to introduce cutting edge products and services and do our best to live up to the market’s expectations.” Further he added that, “TTML has been rated as the only congestion-free network in its geography, in four consecutive reports, by the Telecom Regulatory Authority of India.”

IDEA Cellular launches GSM services in J&K

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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.

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MTS prepaid recharge now available at post offices in Chennai

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Indian telecom operators are definitely making full hearted attempts to reach consumers. In today’s times when prepaid recharge vouchers are everywhere, MTS has gone a step further and has partnered with India post to make MTS recharge vouchers available across post offices in Chennai.

To start off with this new attempt to reach consumers, these vouchers will be initially available at 50 selected post offices and subsequently will cover all post offices in the city. MTS is sending SMSes to its customers in Chennai informing about this new tie-up. If wou have further information about this initiative then feel free to comment.

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HTC and RCom bring Windows Mobile 6.5 powered Touch2

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India’s one of the first Windows Mobile 6.5 equipped phones have arrived, courtesy HTC and RCom. The Touch2 brings the new OS experience laden with an intuitive TouchFLO user interface and internet surfing RCom’s GSM network. Although HTC will sell Touch2 as an unlocked device, users buying from RCom can enjoy free data usage of 200MB per month for the first six months.

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Aircel and BSNL to share network towers

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This is a first of its kind deal between a public and private telecom company. Aircel is the first telecom operator to sign a passive infrastructure sharing agreement with the publically owned Bharat Sanchar Nigam Limited (BSNL).

Mr Gurdeep Singh, COO, Aircel, said, “This is a historic moment for the company. Aircel will now have access to strategically located sites across BSNL’s 21 circles (excluding Mumbai & Delhi). Leveraging BSNL’s passive infrastructure will help Aircel meet its aggressive network roll out plans in addition to reducing operational cost.”

Mr Kuldeep Goyal, CMD, BSNL added, “We are happy to partner with Aircel. BSNL has a strong nationwide coverage and offers the best value proposition in the Indian telecom market. Our objective is to provide quality and reliable service and thereby increase our partner’s confidence”.

Aircel currently has approximately 32,000 network base stations across the country and post this partnership, it will also have access to BSNL’s 45,000 network towers across its 21 circles.

India takes on China to become world’s fastest growing telecom market

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Moody’s Corporation, a global rating agency headquartered in New York City has termed India as the “world’s fastest growing telecom market”. As per the official statement released by the company, India’s net additions of 10 million subscribers per month have far outpaced China’s monthly rate of increase which is now below 8 million. About two years ago, China was having the maximum number of new subscribers on a monthly basis.

Moody’s explained that emerging markets with relatively low penetration continue to have above-average rates of increase in new subscribers, but those numbers tend to slow down in a while. However, in India the numbers seem to be growing by the day. [Read more…] about India takes on China to become world’s fastest growing telecom market

RCom in trouble – May have inflated revenues and evaded license fees to government

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India’s Department of Telecommunication had ordered a special financial audit into the books of some telecom operators including RCom, Bharti Airtel, Tata Teleservices, Vodafone Essar and Idea Cellular. This audit was conducted in May this year and the findings for RCom are out.

Parekh and Co., the official auditors appointed by the government, submitted an audit report to the DoT yesterday whose findings state that for the FY’08 actual wireless revenue earned by the company was only Rs 12,298 crore as against Rs 15,213 crore reported to the shareholders, which is an over reporting of Rs 2,915 crore. It also found that RCom evaded licence fee and spectrum fee to the tune of Rs 315 crore. [Read more…] about RCom in trouble – May have inflated revenues and evaded license fees to government

Download unlimited Hello Tunes on Airtel

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First Aircel came up with a special Dialer Tunes card offering unlimited changes of dialer tunes. Now, Airtel is upto something similar and has brought in a special festive offer. No card, no recharge and no voucher, all Airtel users across India can now enjoy unlimited change of their Hello Tunes for the next one month. But be careful while using this service as the Hello Tune download is free but calling to choose your Hello Tune attracts a charge of Rs 3/min. Airtel subscribers can call 543211 to avail this offer.

IDEA Cellular rolls out GSM services in Kolkata

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IDEA Cellular, a pan-India mobile operator seems to have quietly launched its GSM services in Kolkata. The launch without any big opening or inaugural ceremony. IDEA hasn’t released an official press release yet and we can’t even find the Kolkata circle listed on its website, but our reader from Kolkata have informed us that IDEA prepaid sim-cards are available to general public across Kolkata. We’ll bring our readers their launch plans and schemes once the official word is out, in the interim, if our Kolkata readers wants to add anything then feel free to do so.

[Thanks, Debashish!]