CELL PERFECT
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Tata Cellular, a telecommunication service provider for Andhra Pradesh, is awaiting the telecommunication policy of the Government of India for launching its services throughout the country. It has already set aside large funds for setting up fibre optic cables. Tata Cellular has various offers and schemes. It has not changed the price even when its rivals have done so. One such scheme is the Tata Cellular Direct Service. This scheme provides the facility of making intra-State STD calls at a rate which will be 57 percent less than that charged by the Department of Telecommunications (DoT) of the Government of India. Tata Cellular is India's first non-metro operator to offer cellular services. Now, it has a subscriber base of 33,000 and single digit bad debts. On an average, Tata Cellular earns Rs12,000- 13,000 per subscriber for 125 minutes of airtime. It has established the Costa Corridor service, covering 450 km from Guntur to Visakhapatnam on the east coast of Andhra Pradesh. Persons travelling in trains traversing the highway on which the corridor has been set up can use the cellular facility. The Andhra Pradesh State Road Transport Corporation wants this service to be provided to its bus passengers travelling in the corridor. Tata Cellular also plans to extend its Costa Corridor to 900 km from 450 km to cover Chennai. (ag/kvr)
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Tata Cellular, a telecommunication service provider for Andhra Pradesh, is awaiting the telecommunication policy of the Government of India for launching its services throughout the country.
Publication Name: Economic Times
Subject: Business, international
ISSN: 0013-0389
Year: 1999
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SWISSCOM PULLS OUT OF INDIA AS LOSSES MOUNT
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Swisscom AG has decided to pull out of India and Malaysia as it is reported to have lost $352 million in setting up telecom operations in these two countries. The company has already invested over Rs300 crore along with the Essar group in India to set up cellular operations in Delhi, Haryana, Uttar Pradesh and Rajasthan. Swisscom holds a 32.6 percent stake in Sterling Cellular, the cellular licence holder for Delhi, and a 10 percent stake in Aircel Digilink. (khr)
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Swisscom AG has decided to pull out of India and Malaysia as it is reported to have lost $352 million in setting up telecom operations in these two countries.
Publication Name: Economic Times
Subject: Business, international
ISSN: 0013-0389
Year: 1999
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