Puneet Jain 14 June 2010  Tata Teleservices Limited has added 2.33 million new subscribers in the month of May 2010 to cross the 70-million-subscribers milestone in a span of just over five years since the launch of its mobile telephony services in early 2005. Tata Teleservices Limited and Tata Teleservices (Maharashtra) Limited has shown a subscriber growth rate of more than 100 per cent in the last 12 months—from 35 million subscribers in May 2009.Commenting on the achievement, Mr Anil Sardana, Managing Director of Tata Teleservices Limited, said: “We thank and appreciate every subscriber’s faith in us as a transparent, caring and efficient telecom services company. With each new milestone crossed, we have raised our own internal benchmarks—in keeping with our larger objective of consistently enhancing and improving our standards, and of providing our customers with differentiated and lifestyle-impacting telecom services. The achievement also bears testimony to the efforts that have been put into making our network and services the best in the industry—we will continue to innovate and evolve, providing world-best products and offerings to our subscribers.” | |
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Catch all the Football World Cup 2010 action on your Vodafone mobile. Vodafone to cash in the Football Fever is offering its subscribers Football alerts, songs, videos, wallpapers and games. Vodafone subscribers can also set Football anthems as their caller tunes and ringtones.
Reliance Industries Ltd (RIL) today announced that it has entered into an agreement to acquire a substantial stake in Infotel Broadband Services (P) Ltd, which has emerged as a successful bidder in all the 22 circles of the auction for Broadband Wireless Access (BWA) Spectrum conducted by the DoT. RIL will invest about Rs 4,800 crore by way of subscription to fresh equity capital at par to be issued by Infotel Broadband. Post this investment, RIL will own 95% of the equity and Infotel Broadband will be a subsidiary of Reliance Industries Limited.
Bharti Airtel has announced various offerings for its subscribers gearing up for Football World Cup 2010.
Majority of the Indian Consumers still Prefer Buying a Low Cost Mobile Handset. This is what revealed by a survey conducted by MediaTek India, a semiconductor company. The survey was carried out over a sample size of 1000 people in Metros and about 300 shopkeepers. It consisted of a mixed group of people belonging to the middle and low income groups including young people and students. About 50% of the users interviewed still tend to buy a handset in the Rs.1500 – Rs. 2000 range with basic functionalities. This is similar to an earlier survey carried out by MediaTek in rural India, where 55% of the rural users too buy a low cost phone based on the recommendations of peers, friends, family etc.
Its Party Time for TATA DOCOMO Fans. TATA DOCOMO turns 1 today. It was exactly a year back when TATA Teleservices Limited announced that its pan-India GSM service will be branded as TATA DOCOMO. TATA DOCOMO began its operation from Tamil Nadu and Chennai circle and in a period of 1 year it covered Andhra Pradesh, Bihar, Chhattisgarh, Gujarat, Haryana, Himachal Pradesh, Jharkhand, Karnataka, Kerala, Kolakata, West Bengal, Madhya Pradesh, Mumbai, Maharashtra & Goa, Orissa, Punjab, Tamil Nadu and Uttar Pradesh.
In a bid to provide more to subscribers,Tata DOCOMO has come up with a new plan for subscribers in Mumbai,Maharashtra and Goa - "Just 2 Simple" offer.This plan allows all local and STD calls to Tata numbers for as low as 1 paise/2 seconds and Local and STD calls to any network at 5 paise/6 seconds.This plan is available for Rs.79 for new subscribers and Rs.71 for existing subscribers and comes with a validity of 4 months for new and 5 months for existing subcribers.
Bharti Airtel Ltd has acquired Zain Group’s (“Zain”) mobile operations in 15 countries across Africa for an enterprise valuation of USD 10.7 billion. With this acquisition Bharti Airtel becomes the 5th largest mobile operator in the world. This acquisition will Bharti Airtel to operate in 18 countries across Asia and Africa.| Telecom Operators | Mobile Phones |
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