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Airtel 3G service comes to aamchi Mumbai
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Bharti airtel, India’s leading telecommunications company today launched its 3G services in Mumbai, India’s financial and entertainment capital. Now million of Mumbaikars can stay connected to high speed internet using the ubiquitous mobile platform. With the objective of delivering a robust 3G experience for customers, airtel has made significant network investments in Mumbai so airtel customers can enjoy never experienced before speeds.
Already launched in the cities of Bengaluru, Chennai, Coimbatore, Mysore, Manipal, Udipi, Jaipur and Delhi NCR– airtel will launch its 3G services in all 13 3G-license circles by March 2011.
With airtel 3G, customers can access exciting services including video calls, high speed internet and video capabilities on social networks. A wide range of LIVE and on-demand TV channels as well as shows are also available on airtel 3G Mobile TV at an affordable price of Rs. 40 for 20 minutes per week. (more…)
Vodafone becomes first private telecom to make 3G video call
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Vodafone Essar Ltd., India’s second largest telecom service provider, today demonstrated its 3G services for its customers in India. Marten Pieters, Managing Director of Vodafone Essar Ltd., made the first 3G video call from Mumbai to Delhi. Vodafone Essar is the first private telecom company in the country to showcase a 3G video call. Recently Tata Docomo an Airtel announced to launch their 3G services in coming month but Vodafone Essar will launch 3G services in the first quarter of 2011.
Vodafone acquired 3G spectrum in 10 circles – Delhi, Mumbai, Chennai, Kolkata, Maharashtra, Gujarat, Tamil Nadu, Haryana, Uttar Pradesh (E) and West Bengal and is exploring opportunities to tie up with other operators to provide high quality 3G services in other circles as well. (more…)
3G services in metro cost atleast 700-900 Rs/month
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Bharti Airtel , Indian Telecom Market leader cautioned that 3G mobile services will not come cheap, especially for subscribers in metros, as service providers had to pay unexpected heavy fee for spectrum. “Take the example of Delhi itself, or Mumbai. The amount for spectrum that has been charged is close to Rs 3,500 crore.
according to Sunil Mittal, Chairman Bharti Group. “To recover heavy license fees and input cost, it would be charged atleast Rs 700-900 per month,” On the Qs of 3G launch, Mittal said, “We will launch 3G Some time later this year. We are just waiting for the spectrum allocation, which is promised in September, a few months after that.”
In the rest of the circles, specially in the C-category, the tariffs may not be very high. “The pricing of subscriber tariffs have to be based on the input cost. Any industry relies on input cost and here, the input cost is spectrum and it has gone high,” he said. (more…)
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