Tata Teleservices launches GSM service

October 8th, 2009 KOLKATA - Telecom major Tata Teleservices and Japan-based Docomo are planning to jointly set up a research and development facility in India, a top official said Thursday. "The company (Docomo) is interested in developing certain amount of value-added services which will be available on the Tata-Docomo GSM network here," Tata Teleservices managing director Anil Sardana told reporters at the launch of Tata-Docomo GSM services here.

September 8th, 2009 NEW DELHI - Tata Docomo, the GSM brand of Tata Teleservices, Tuesday launched a short messaging service (SMS), called Diet-SMS, which enables customers to pay on a per-character basis. "The cost of any Diet-SMS will be only one paise per character used, thereby providing complete value to customers, Tata Docomo said in a statement.

September 1st, 2009 NEW DELHI - Telecom operator Tata Teleservices Tuesday launched a scheme that will enable its CDMA subscribers to talk endlessly for just Re.1. Breaking away from the usual practice of charging subscribers on a one minute-pulse basis, Tata Teleservices CDMA callers will be charged Re.1 for all local calls and Rs.3 for long distance calls, regardless of the duration of the call.

July 21st, 2009 MUMBAI - Tata Communications, a leading telecom and Internet services provider, Tuesday launched advanced ethernet services to help its customers experience high-speed, secure and cost-effective bandwidth. Ethernet is a widely installed local area network (LAN) technology.

June 24th, 2009 NEW DELHI - Tata DoCoMo, the joint venture between telecom majors Tata Teleservices and NTT DoCoMo of Japan, commercially launched GSM telephony operations in Chennai and Tamil Nadu circles Wednesday. Tata DoCoMo's pan-India service rollout will be completed this year, with entire south Indian circles going "live" in a fortnight, it said in a statement.

June 17th, 2009 NEW DELHI - Tata Teleservices has teamed up with ECI Telecom, an Israel-based networking infrastructure solutions provider, to offer India's fastest broadband access network till date, the Indian telecom operator said Wednesday. In a statement, Tata Teleservices said ECI's network solution would support a connectivity speed of up to 18 megabit per second (Mbps), a unit to measure broadband speed.

June 11th, 2009 NEW DELHI - Leading telecom operator Tata Teleservices Wednesday launched mobile services on the GSM platform under the Tata DoCoMo brand, saying it will invest $2 billion (Rs.9,450 crore) for its pan-India rollout. The company, in which Japan's NTT DoCoMo has 26 percent stake, has received GSM spectrum for 18 out of the country's 22 telecom circles.

June 11th, 2009 NEW DELHI - Leading telecom operator Tata Teleservices Wednesday launched mobile services on the GSM platform under the Tata DoCoMo brand. The company in which Japan's NTT DoCoMo has 26 percent stake, said it will invest $2 billion (Rs.9,450 crore) for the pan-India rollout of the services.

May 11th, 2009 NEW DELHI - Telecom operator Tata Teleservices Maharashtra Monday reported a net loss of Rs.1.6 billion for fiscal 2008-09 ended March 31 against a net loss of Rs.1.25 billion in the previous year. The total income, however, increased to Rs.20.53 billion from Rs.17.89 billion in the previous year, a company statement said.

April 20th, 2009 NEW DELHI - Tata Teleservices Ltd, one of the leading mobile telephone service providers in the country using CDMA technology, Monday said it has earmarked $2 billion as capital expenditure for rolling out services through the other technology, GSM. 'We will roll out GSM services in few weeks,' company managing director Anil Sardana told reporters here.

March 26th, 2009 NEW DELHI - The 26 percent stake sale in telecommunications major Tata Teleservices to Japanese telecom company NTT DoCoMo has been completed, the Indian company's parent Tata Sons said Thursday. 'DoCoMo has also completed its payment obligations under the tender offer and is preparing to acquire approximately 12 percent of the common shares of Tata Teleservices (Maharashtra) Ltd through an open offer,' Tata Sons said in a regulatory statement.

February 24th, 2009 NEW DELHI - India's cabinet was in an overdrive Monday clearing 60 agenda items in three hours, including Japan's NTT DoCoMo Inc's proposal to acquire 20.25 percent stake in Tata Teleservices. It took Home Minister P.

January 4th, 2009 NEW DELHI - CDMA telecom service provider Tata Teleservices will roll out GSM services by the end of this year on an investment of $2 billion, the company said here Monday. 'We have already got spectrum (2G) for most of the circles and will roll out the services by the end of this year hopefully,' company managing director Anil Sardana told reporters.

January 4th, 2009 NEW DELHI - Quippo Telecom Infrastructure Ltd (QTIL) has picked up a 49 percent stake in Wireless Tata Telecom Infrastructure (WTTL), Tata Teleservices' tower arm, a company official said Monday. Despite a minority stake, Kolkata-based QTIL will have management control in the firm, the official said on condition of anonymity.

January 4th, 2009 NEW DELHI - Tata Teleservices, the country's leading CDMA telecom services provider, and Kolkata-based Quippo Telecom Infrastructure, Monday announced the merger of their infrastructure businesses to create an independent telecom infrastructure company. Under the terms of the partnership, the Tata group firm and Quippo will swap 51 percent and 49 percent stake respectively in the infrastructure business held by them.