Russian telco MTS eyes Indian telecom market

www.WirelessFederation.com/news: India’s hunger for real-time information and infotainment has attracted the attention of Russian telco MTS which is shifting from mobile voice to mobile data services. It has been expected by the company that the markets will expand beyond just corporate users for data to include small to medium enterprises (SMEs), students and small households.

MTS biggest rivals in India are the companies like Reliance, Bharti Airtel, Vodafone and Tata Docomo providing postpaid services to its customers. According to Vsevolod Rozanov, president and CEO of Sistema Shyam Teleservices, it difficult to win existing customers of other operators but the company would fight the battle for new customers.