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Virgin Mobile introduces Music Unlimited service

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Virgin Mobile introduces Music Unlimited serviceVirgin Mobile has announced the launch of ‘Music Unlimited’ service offering mobile subscribers to download full songs, ringtones, tring tunes (CRBT) free of cost. The service will allow the users to download full songs from music library of over 1.5 lakh songs ranging from Bollywood, Western rock, Pop, Bhangra, Indi pop, Bengali, Tamil, Telugu, Malayalam and can set caller ring back tunes of their choice.

To avail this service, customers have to call at 586865 (charges @ 10p/sec)

M.A. Madhusudan, Chief Executive Officer, Virgin Mobile India said, “Music is an integral part of the lives of youth and their mobile phones are their newly evolved 24×7 music stations. Catering to this segment’s consumption of music, this service which will be offered to Virgin Mobile customers FREE of COST. Through this service, we at Virgin Mobile aim at changing the way music is consumed and reinvent the ways youth experience music every day.”

Virgin Mobile expands GSM service in six circles

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Virgin Mobile expands GSM service in six new circlesVirgin Mobile India has launched GSM services in six more telecom circles in the country, along with introducing a unique concept of getting paid for incoming calls. Virgin Mobile GSM A youth targeted telephony service is now started in UP (East), UP (West)-Uttarakhand, Madhya Pradesh-Chhattisgarh, Haryana, West Bengal and Bihar.

Virgin Mobile GSM StartUp Kit (SUK) is available at Rs 49 with lifetime validity and zero talk time. Keeping Competition in mind, Virgin mobile has introduced several new concepts to give a tough fight to the other market players with charging 20 paise/minute for STD and local calls for the Virgin mobile numbers without any pack or daily rental. Calls to other network ( local + STD ) would be charged 50 paise/minute. (more…)

Virgin Mobile to invest Rs 500 crore in next 6 months

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Virgin mobile 500 crore investment

Virgin Mobile India Limited, a 50:50 joint venture between Tata Teleservices and the UK-based Virgin Group, plans to invest Rs 500 crore over the next six months on its mobile operations in the country.

The cellular operator, which has a presence in six telecom circles as of now, aims to extend its presence to around 1000 towns in all the 22 telecom circles across the country within two years.

“We would invest Rs 500 crore in the next six months on our mobile operations in the country. The investment will be made in areas like sales, brand promotion, distribution channels and customer care” told by M A Madhusudan, chief executive officer, Virgin Mobile India. He refused to comment on the number of targeted subscribers stating that Tata Teleservices was providing the combined subscriber base of all its mobile services brands including Tata Indicom, Tata Docomo and Virgin Mobile.

Virgin Mobile, a youth focused mobile operator intends to capture 10 per cent market share in mobile services in the urban youth segment in the country. Virgin Mobile has rolled out its GSM mobile services in Karnataka, Andhra Pradesh, Chennai, Tamil Nadu, Kerala and Orissa. Right from the day of launch, Virgin will have a presence in 27 towns of Orissa. The operator will have a network of around 6,000 outlets in the state which will cater to 65 per cent of the urban youth population. Customers, who sign up for Virgin Mobile, can make local and STD calls within the network at 20 paise per minute. The tariff for local calls to other network has been fixed at 40 paise per minute and that of STD calls at 50 paise per minute.

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