MTS India subscriber base reaches 1Mn mark

www.WirelessFederation.com/news: MTS India, the new entrant in the Indian telecom foray, has posted a subscriber base of 1 million. Sistema Shyam Teleservices, a JV between Russia-based Sistema and India’s Shyam Group, had launched the CDMA operations under the brand name MTS on 1 October 2008. The operator experienced a fast paced growth in last three months as it expanded its services from Rajasthan to three more circles including Tamil Nadu, Kerala and Kolkata covering 13% of the population in the country.