S Tel, a joint venture between Siva Group and Bahrain Telecommunications Company (Batelco) has launched mobile services in Assam and offered one paise per second tariff along with other initial promotional offers.  For the passive infrastructure, the company has tied up with various service providers including RCom, Bharti and Vodafone.

S tel starter kit in Assam is available at Rs 49 and has full talk-time on all top-up denominations. S Tel, which also bagged 3G spectrum in three states of Bihar, Orissa and Himachal Pradesh, is in process to arrange an outlay of Rs 700 crore for rolling out services.  For the existing 2G operations, the company has announced an investment of Rs 2000 crore.[ad code=2]

“This is the fourth circle we are starting services after Bihar, Orissa and Himachal Pradesh. Next month we shall enter North Eastern states beginning with Tripura and Nagaland,” Said, S Tel’s CEO Shamik Das

“We view mobile technology as important element for advancing socio-economic development in the state of Assam with tele density as low as 31 per cent. Our strategy is aimed at making benefits of mobility accessible first to under-penetrated markets of Assam and then gradually expanding to bigger towns, thus aiming to bridge the stratum divide as we roll out our services in phases across the region,” Das said.