Aircel launches GSM Mobile services in Bangalore

24.02.2009
Aircel Tuesday announced the launch of its GSM mobile services in Bangalore. With a subscriber base over 16 million, Aircel, the fifth largest service provider, rolled out its 12th circle with Bangalore. The press release said Aircel will be launching a rich bouquet of VAS services with localized content including a WAP portal page in the local language that would work on any GPRS handset. Aircel is to introduce segment wise tailored offers like Re.1 per minute charge for subscribers in Bangalore to make STD calls to Kerala and Tamil Nadu (Aircel to Aircel). Also in view of the high ILD traffic to the Gulf and US/Canada from Karnataka, to facilitate usage, Aircel has an attractive inbuilt ISD tariff of call to Gulf at Rs. 5.99 (US$0.12) per minute and call to US/Canada at Rs. 3.99 per minute.

Mr. Gurdeep Singh, Chief Operating Officer, Aircel said, "We are proud to be here in Bangalore and present to our customers a National Brand with a strong local connect. We will be introducing products and services uniquely tailored to meet the special needs of our Bangalore consumers. To reward high usage in a simple manner there is an inbuilt reduction in tariff on all local calls after the first minute to 50p for all subsequent minutes. The Bangalore Launch augments the next phase of our Pan India roll-out."