We Indians are very lucky because Indian Telecom market has got huge demands globally and is attracting worldwide telecom companies to invest in Indian Telecom Market. With the recent launch of Uninor in India, one more telecom joint venture has happened , MTS Mobile.

Its a joint venture between Indian Based Shyam group and Russian Based Sistema group. Its called SSTL ( Sistema Shyam TeleServices), Sistema holds majority of the stake in this project about 74% and Shyam Group holds the remaining. Sistema is a major telecom company of Russia that was started in the year 1993 and has about 100 million subscribers worldwide. At the same time Shyam telecom is a company which provides services in GSM, CDMA, iDEN, UMTS, TETRA etc. Sistema works with the brand name MTS ( Mobile TeleSystems) and it is the 8th largest telecom brand in the world. MTS is already providing services in countries like Russia, Ukraine etc.

MTS has already got the licence of spectrum for all the 22 circles of India. Already MTS has deployed the service in Rajasthan, Tamil Nadu, Kerala, West Bengal, Delhi, Kolkata and Karnataka circles. In the near future MTS will be launching also in Haryana, Maharastra, Mumbai and Goa cirlcles also.

MTS has already started some great offers like the Mcard, which is a recharge card of Rs.499 and they claim to give a free talktime of 100,000 minutes for that card. Also here the call rates are still cheaper compared to other providers, MTS claims a call rate of 1p per 2 seconds, so effectively about 0.5p/ sec. Also other value added services like short message service (SMS) and Short code SMS service are also provided.

The recharge vouchers are also very attractive with almost full talktime with very less service charge. Values ranging from Rs.10 – Rs.1000 vouchers are available.

MTS also offers two different options for the users, like in one offer the users can use their own handsets with MTS SIM card and in another option you can get both the SIM card and Handset from MTS.