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T24 – A Tie up Between TTSL & Future

Feb 16th

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A new tie up has been done between Tata Teleservices (TTSL) and the Future group for providing GSM service in India under the brand name T24. Here Future will be selling TTSL sim cards in retail outlest with the brand name T24. This is a second such deal by TTSL, it has already done such deal with the Virgin group that markets TTSL sim under the brand name T24.

The main thing to be noticed here as said by the Future Group CEO Kishore Biyani, that the customers will get shopping benefits each time they talk and talk time benefits each time they shop. So this is really a good news for Indian customers as all the retails chains like Big bazaar, pantaloons, future bazaar, e-zone etc come under the future group. So the customers can benefit both ways.

Lets hope for good offers from T24.

Uninor – Eighth GSM Operator in India

Feb 16th

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Here is a happy news for all the mobile freaks, India will get its 8th GSM service provider soon. Recently Unitech Wireless got permission from Indian Government to start their GSM services in India.

It is a joint venture between the Norway based telecom firm Telenor and Unitech wireless of India. The brand name of this GSM service will be called ‘UNINOR’. Uninor has got license to start the GSM services in 22 circles in India. Telenor has already bought around 67% shares of Unitech wireless, and recently it got permission from the cabinet Committee on Economic affairs to rise its stake in Unitech wireless to upto 74%. This is the maximum stake a foreign company can hold in the Indian based company. Unitech is basically a construction company, but they started a division called Unitech wireless recently.

Uninor is going to start services in 8 circles by December, 2009, 4 in south India, 2 in Uttar Pradesh, one each in Orissa and Bihar.

Chinese Telecom equipment manufacturer ZTE is going to provide the GSM Network supply to Uninor GSM service. ZTE has signed an agreement with Uninor for 5 years, under which it will supply the network equipments for the circles of Delhi, Madhya Pradesh and Haryana.

In the other circles like Gujarat, Maharashtra, Rajasthan, Punjab, Jammu and Kashmir and Himachal Pradesh Nokia siemens network has won the deal of supplying the Network equipments for Uninor. At the same time Nokia siemens network will be responsible for network operation and maintenance in the following circles.

Currently Uninor is under test, we can see its network by using the Manual search in our mobile under the name IND 820 in Bangalore circle. It is going to be launched by this year end in some 8 circles. So the customers will be in a great fix to decide about which service provider to opt for.

As the competition increases between the GSM service providers, the customers are befitted by better offers. India is the main target for many external service providers because of the market in India. So lets hope some good service and offers from Uninor.

MTS – New Mobile Operator in India

Feb 16th

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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.