www.WirelessFederation.com/news: Indian city of Hyderabad, the capital of Andhra Pradesh has welcomed the arrival of 3G services along with other major cities across the state. The launch has taken place barely after its arrival in Bangalore, Karnataka.

The tariff offered by the company includes- STD calls for 50 paise per minute while the local calls are priced at 30 paise per minute. The charges are offered when the user is on 3G network. While not using 3G network, 70 paise for STD and 60 paise (both per minute) for local calls will be charged.

Local SMS will be charged at 40 paise per SMS, national SMS for 60 paise and international SMS for Rs. 3. The data transfer charges is 1 paisa per 10KB data transfer. Rs. 59 is the subscription charges for the 3G network. New 3G consumers have the option to recharge for Rs. 120.

A promotional offer has also been announced by BSNL in which users will get 50 minutes of free talk time on STD or local calls (video calls) and 25MB of free data transfer.

50 paise and 70 paise for 3G and a non 3G local call respectively will have to be paid by existing BSNL consumers and 60 paise using 3G and 80 paise on 2G will have to be paid for STD calls.

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www.WirelessFederation.com/news: While the private telecom operators in India are waiting patiently for the 3G auction to take place in the country, state-owned telecom operator Bharat Sanchar Nigam Ltd (BSNL) is spreading its ground by launching its 3G mobile services in the Bangalore-Karnataka telecom circle.

The commercial 3G service will be available to BSNL postpaid and prepaid subscribers from February 20 across the city. The new 3G prepaid connections of BSNL comes at just Rs.59 and this starter pack contents U-SIM (3G Sim card).

High-speed Internet with speed up to 7.2Mbps and video calls on mobile phones as well as mobile TV facility could be offered by the telco through these 3G services. 3G Mobile Service of BSNL has already been launched in about 240 cities.

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www.WirelessFederation.com/news: With the launch of its services in Orissa, Uninor, the GSM mobile service brand of Unitech Wireless and the joint venture company of India’s second largest real estate major

Unitech Limited completes the Blue Arc taking its toll to eight circles pan India. Now Uninor’s service is available in nine states including Orissa, Uttarakhand, Uttar Pradesh, Bihar, Jharkhand, Tamil Nadu, Kerala, Karnataka and Andhra Pradesh.
According to the Unitech Wireless managing director Stein-Erik Vellan,   the company is planning to focus on gaining shares where they have launched their services.

The company emphasized on the fact that they want to stay the closest to their customers. From product, pricing to customer services, the firms aims at creating value for individual customers.

According to the executive vice-president of Uninor, Akash Das, the company’s national distribution presence went up over 50 distributors following the launch in Orissa apart from four exclusive stores ready for service across the state. Managing director of Unitech, Sanjay Chandra regarded the project as a mega-success. Uninor’s services have two basic price plans including a base plan known as talklonger@29p and a subscription plan known as callmore@29p.

The former plan is for customers who make longer calls. The plan offers its customers STD call at 49 paise per minute and local calls at 29 paise per minute after charging a call set up fee which costs 39 paise and charged at the time of activation of the cell.

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www.WirelessFederation.com/news: Moving one step ahead of the pay per second system, Norway-based firm Telenor, entered Indian market with 29 paise per minute plan under the brand name Uninor. The company has tied up with India’s Unitech Group and will be launched in seven circles — UP (East), Tamil Nadu, Karnataka, Kerala, Andhra Pradesh, UP (West) and Bihar.

According to the CEO and President of Telenor group, Jon Fredrik Baksaas, the new plan offers more value for money to the users as the consumers want something more than the usual features. The pay per second billing was first launched by TATA DoCoMo, followed by other operators.

According to Unitech Wireless Managing Director Stein-Erik Vellan, the company’s target is to occupy 8% of the market share by 2018 and operate cash-flow break-even in five years.

Besides, the company also expects that the average revenue per user (ARPU) becomes lower than the industry level in the near term. However, Unitech is susceptible about bidding in the 3G auction but at the same time it has made it clear that it will surely not bid for an all India license.

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Tata Teleservices Limited (TTSL), India’s fastest-growing pan India telecom service provider, today announced the signing of a landmark ‘Master Services Agreement for Passive Infrastructure Sharing’ with Bharat Sanchar Nigam Limited (BSNL).

Becoming the first Indian private telecom operator to enter into an agreement of this nature. The agreement which is valid for 15 years will be applicable to both Tata Teleservices Limited and Tata Teleservices (Maharashtra) Limited in all of India’s 22 telecom Circles.

“This is a moment of pride for us, as we have become the first private telecom operator to enter into such a strategically important agreement with BSNL, one that will allow us to expand our telecom footprint across the country much more quickly,” Mr Madhav Joshi, President, Legal and Regulatory Affairs, Tata Teleservices Limited, said.

The agreement comes at a very strategic time for Tata Teleservices Limited (TTSL) and Tata Teleservices (Maharashtra) Limited (TTML), as both companies have been aggressively expanding their network presence on the CDMA side with Tata Indicom, while also rolling out GSM services under the TATA DOCOMO brand name. “In the short space of just three months, we have already rolled out our GSM services in nine Circles—Tamil Nadu, Kerala, Orissa, Karnataka, Andhra Pradesh, Mumbai, Maharashtra, Madhya Pradesh-Chhattisgarh and Haryana,” Mr AG Rao, Chief Technology Officer, Tata Teleservices Limited, said. “This agreement has the potential to not just speed up our network expansion and rollout process, but would also have a substantial impact in terms of reduced costs,” he added.

Under the terms of the agreement, TTSL and TTML will have access to thousands of BSNL towers all across the country.

Computer Sciences Corporation (NYSE: CSC) announced today that its European operations have signed two previously unannounced contracts during CSC’s fiscal 2008 first  quarter, which ends June 29. These contracts, combined with a previously
announced award with no assigned value, have a total estimated value of
approximately $200 million if all contract options are exercised. The
contract performance periods range from 2.5 to seven years.
   

“These agreements signify the confidence our clients have in CSC’s
ability to apply our vast experience and expertise across a variety of
industries and geographies in Europe to deliver business results for a
diverse cross section of companies,” said Guy Hains, President of CSC’s
European Group.
 

About CSC
   

Computer Sciences Corporation is a leading global information
technology (IT) services company. CSC’s mission is to provide customers in
industry and government with solutions crafted to meet their specific
challenges and enable them to profit from the advanced use of technology.
   

With approximately 79,000 employees, CSC provides innovative solutions
for customers around the world by applying leading technologies and CSC’s
own advanced capabilities. These include systems design and integration; IT
and business process outsourcing; applications software development; Web
and application hosting; and management consulting. Headquartered in El
Segundo, Calif., CSC reported revenue of $14.9 billion for the 12 months
ended March 30, 2007.

 

   

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