Honest 836 Report post Posted September 30, 2008 Idea enters Bihar, Jharkhand with mobile telephony business 30 Sep, 2008, 1510 hrs IST, PTI PATNA: The customers of Bihar and Jharkhand now have more option to choose from among a host of mobile service providers as Idea Cellular, an Aditya Birla group company, on Tuesday formally launched its GSM service in both the states. "Our service will be available from tomorrow (October 1) in Bihar and Jharkhand. We are making a very serious attempt to broaden our customer base through wide and rapid expansion of our network in both states," said Ambarish P Jain, director for Idea's north-east region operations. Idea will be the fifth player in mobile telephony in Bihar and Jharkhand after Reliance (which has both CDMA and GSM mobile service), BSNL, AirTel, and Aircel. Idea will set up a network of customer touch points besides customer care units in both the states. "With this and several other key features, Idea shall redefine standards of mobile telephony in the states", M D Prasad, said company's Bihar circle head. In the first phase, Idea plans to cover 1.5 crore people in 2,500 towns and villages in the two states through its 880 towers. By the end of this fiscal, Idea hopes to increase its network to 6 crore people in 16,500 towns and villages through increased 3,000 mobile tower network, Jain said. The mobile telephony giant, which has a subscriber base of 3.3 crore across the country, hopes to add one million customers to its fold every month nationally, said Jain. By entering the two states, Idea has made its presence in 15 out of 22 circles, which is almost 80 per cent of national mobile telephony market in terms of reach. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
dxunlimited 0 Report post Posted September 30, 2008 Next in line to launch its service in the same region is Vodafone. Announcement is likely to come anytime during next few days. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Honest 836 Report post Posted September 30, 2008 Thats really good my dear friends, at least in Bihar also their should be tough competition between operators. Regards. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Himanshu Singh 19 Report post Posted October 1, 2008 The website shows the bihar-jharkhand circle since early morning. They are offering free unlimited on net calls, for some days or permanently is not clear to me. The site is not showing any postpaid plan though. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
nellorian 23 Report post Posted October 1, 2008 As per Business Line, Syam Tele also started CDMA services in Rajasthan and it is offering ALL LOCAL CALLS and SMS @0.50 under Rainbow Trademark. May be the lowest among all service providers in the Country. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
