Mobile phone manufacturers

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Mobile Phone Manufacturers & cell phone operators in India - Industry information report :-

India had over 14.17 million mobile phone subscribers by May,2003, about 102.8 per cent more than the previous year.

Mobile phone users have risen to over 120 million in 2008, making this telecommunication sector one of the most lucrative markets for global mobile phone manufacturers & cell phone providers.

The main players in the cellular market include Bharti Tele-Ventures Ltd, Idea Cellular Ltd, Mahanagar Telephone Nigam Ltd., and Reliance India Mobile. Mobile phone operators are making big price cuts on long distance calls & offering great discounts. Nokia, sony ericsson, samsung, and reliance mobile phones are most popular in India.

Chinese Mobile Phones have already arrived in India and are proving to be a challenge for local to other well known International cell phone brands. Priced lower with more features, Chinese cell phones have made their inroads in major Indian cities like Delhi, Chennai, and Kolkatta.

Mobile/Cellular companies in India »

Airtel mobile
Reliance mobile
BPL mobile
Hutch India
BSNL mobile
Tata Mobile
MTNL mobile

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Airtel mobile, Bharti Airtel

Bharti Airtel belongs to the Bharti Group. Bharti group is renowned for its pioneering efforts in Indian telecom industry and it deserves a lot of credit for spreading usage of mobiles in India. A well diversified company with operations in several other industries like retail, insurance and fresh agri products export. Bharti Airtel is India’s largest private telecom service provider and has presence in all the 23 telecom circles. Its operations are based upon GSM technology and it has also forayed into broadband and fixed line telephone services.

Airtel provides various products and services in postpaid, prepaid and other related arenas. Attractive features of Airtel Postpaid Connection include, easy billing, strong network coverage, easy payment options, GPRS – Roaming, satisfactory credit limit, long distance calling facility, widest roaming (National and International) and many others. Bharti also offers customers an e-billing option which helps in saving precious time of company as well as customers.

Advantages associated with Airtel prepaid services are; total cost control, prepaid roaming, pre activated STD/ISD without any rental or deposits, instant balance and validity enquiry and strong network coverage etc. Users can also recharge according to their needs and electronic recharge facility is a great help for many of the customers. To make things easy for customers, customers have also been given option of recharging from ATMs and by using internet banking facilities.

Bharti in association with Nokia has also started offering bundled packages where new customers can have low priced Nokia 1200 and 1209 handsets with Airtel mobile connection. iPhone 3G is also available on Airtel. Other new services being offered by Airtel are, data services (accessing e-mails), operator services, LMTS services (quite helpful in case of stolen handsets), phone back up options, call management services etc. international calling cards, Airtel call home cards and world calling cards are other useful offers for customers.

For further information Airtel.in.

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Hutch India

Hutch India is now known as Vodafone limited. Vodafone in joint collaboration with Essar group is registered as Vodafone Essar Limited. Vodafone started operations in India in 1994 when Hutchinson Telecom group acquired the cellular rights in Mumbai circle. Known as one of the ‘most respected telecom company’ and the ‘best mobile service in the country’, it has operations in 16 circles with almost 50 million customers. Vodafone is world’s leading telecom company and has operations in several countries.

Vodafone India provides various services to the delight of Indian customers. It has also created headlines recently, with the launch of Apple iPhone 3GTM service. This offer comes in 8GB – Black and 16GB - Black / White iPhones. Launching of this service is considered as a crucial breakthrough in Indian telecom market because of its revolutionary features like, fast 3G wireless technology, Maps with GPS, support for various enterprise features including Microsoft Exchange.

Vodafone’s basic and attractive offers involve diverse ranges of offers in both prepaid and postpaid segment. Prepaid and postpaid offers are designed keeping in view different needs of the customers. Users can use particular plans depending upon their convenience. Most of the prepaid plans also offer top-ups and other new features likes cheap night sms, Vodafone gang plan, full value recharge coupon etc. Postpaid customers can use different schemes embedded with Vodafone Citibank card and relatively cheap ISD call rates.

Its product range includes Vodafone Magic Phone Handsets. These handsets are quite economical and come with several attractive features like, polyphonic tunes, Bluetooth, stereo, camera, vibrator mode, FM radio, 65k color display, stylish designs etc. Price varies from 1199 Rs. to 3499 Rs. Other products and services are Home calling cards, World calling cards, caller tunes and Blackberry sets. Apart from these, Vodafone bonus cards are also available. Vodafone also boasts of an effective customer care service.

For further information - Vodafone India - Mobile Services Postpaid | Prepaid | Calling Cards | Data Cards

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MTNL mobile

MTNL (Mahanagar Telephone Nigam Limited) was established in 1986. It started its operations by providing landline telephony. MTNL launched GSM Cellular Mobile Service in the two metro cities of Delhi and Mumbai under the brand name ‘Dolphin’. The operation was launched in 2001. MTNL has been granted license to operate cellular services in the National Capital Region (NCR) of Delhi (including its four satellite towns of Ghaziabad, NOIDA, Faridabad & Gurgaon) and Mumbai (including Navi Mumbai & Kalyan). One of the prominent public sector undertakings, MTNL has helped in spreading usage of mobiles through good quality service and lower call rates.

With almost one million subscribers, MTNL’s prepaid service is called “TRUMP’. MTNL offers GSM Cellular Mobile service under the brand name Dolphin and WLL Mobile services under the brand name Garuda. Trump definitely offers better call rates compared to other service providers with no activation fees and security deposits. Various recharge vouchers with high talk value are provided by the company. It also offers low local and STD call rates with extended validity period. Recently MTNL has also introduced revised Garuda mobile incoming plan and Chhota recharge card. All the three Garuda connection types; Garuda Mobile, Garuda Fixed Wireless (FWP/FWT) and Garuda RUIM (also known as SIM) have several attractive postpaid plans. This CDMA service comes bundled with three handset options of Curitel CX 858(with Camera and internet), Hisense C677 (with internet) and Huawei C300 (without internet).

MTNL provides various value added services like voice mail service (VMS), short message service (SMS), cell broadcast service, call hold, multi-party conference, closed user group, call divert and call waiting, MMS, GPRS, WAP etc. Other value attractive features include; play tunes, mobile photo sharing services, express alerts, missed call alert etc.

One can pay MTNL’s mobile bills at several banks and post offices in both metros. It has collaborated with banks like ICICI, Axis Bank, Deutsche bank, Union bank etc for facilitating bill payment.

For further details- Bharat on line & Mahanagar Telephone Nigam Ltd. Mumbai.

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Tata Mobile

Tata Teleservices was incorporated in 1996. It was the first ever company to launch CDMA mobile services in India and started its operations with Andhra Pradesh circle. The company has a pan India presence. It offers multiple services and products in 19 circles spread all across India. Tata Teleservices is credited to introduce CDMA 1X technology platform in India. It also has a reliable 3G ready telecom infrastructure that ensures quality and effectiveness in its services. It has also collaborated with several telecom giants like Motorola, Ericsson, Lucent and ECI Telecom for the purpose of establishing superb and reliable networks.

Its arm Tata Teleservices Maharashtra Limited (TTML) takes care of Maharashtra (including Mumbai) and Goa region. Tata Teleservices offers various services in mobile, fixed wireless phones (FWP), public telephone booths & wireline services. Strong presence in broadband data network & application services has further enhanced its reach and reputation.

Tata Mobile’s bouquet of value-added services include BREW games, voice portal, picture messaging, polyphonic ring tones, interactive applications like news, cricket, astrology, voice mail, 3 way conferencing, itemized bill, CRBT, etc. One of the most affordable mobile service in India, it offers both prepaid and postpaid services through its congestion free networks. Popular prepaid plans are; go regular, go Active regular, go power, go speak and go life whereas postpaid plans are, do more 0123, honest 150, honest 275, honest 450, business 299, Platinum plan and several more. Call rates are quite low and that’s a huge incentive for its customers. Tata Mobile’s smart calling cards and global calling cards are quite low priced and hence easily affordable.

Tata Indicom offers widest range of CDMA mobile handsets at affordable prices. Indicom’s connections are bundled with these handsets of Samsung, Huawei, Haier, ZTE, Nokia and MotoQ etc. Tata was also instrumental in launching India’s first ever dual sim handset in collaboration with Spice telecom.

For further information- Tata Indicom : Wireless Internet, Wireless Phones & USB Modem

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Reliance mobile

Reliance Communications was formerly known as Reliance Infocomm and commenced its operation on 28 December 2002. It has a high-capacity, convergent (voice, data and video) and integrated (both wireless and wireline) digital network. It offers various applications for individuals and consulting. Reliance Communications belongs to Anil Dhirubhai Ambani Group (ADAG). Over the years it has established a pan-India presence and boasts of over 55 million customers. Reliance communication operates in both mobile and fixed line telephony. It began its operations in CDMA division but since January 12 2008, Reliance mobile has also started offering GSM operations.

Reliance mobile offers several value added services like voice mail service, call waiting, call hold, call divert, 3 way call conferencing, CLIP (Caller Line Identification Presentation), CLIR (Call Line Identification Restriction), Itemized Billing, caller tunes, value roaming, voice mail, games, astrology, handset tracker etc. Reliance mobile also offers several handsets in collaborations with handset manufacturers like Nokia, LG, Kyocera, Samsung etc. Price of these handsets range from low end to high end, offering multiple choices to customers as per their affordability and convenience factor.

Like other telecom service providers, Reliance mobile offers Global calling cards and STD calling card. Call rates on global call cards are quite affordable and come in different nominations, thus offering range of choices to customers. Prepaid Reliance STD calling card is very suitable for local and national long distance calls and can be used from any reliance phone including fixed, wireless and mobile.

Reliance offers several attractive packages in prepaid and postpaid segments. Subscribers can choose their desired plans depending upon their usage. Major postpaid plans are; unlimited 399, unlimited 499, unlimited 450, joy 149, joy 249, FTT 99, FTT 299 etc. Reliance GSM service is operational in selected circles of Kolkata, Bihar and Jharkhand, West Bengal, Assam, North East, Orissa, Himachal Pradesh and Madhya Pradesh and Chattisgarh.

For further information: Reliance Communications.

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BPL mobile

BPL Mobile started its services in 1995. It has more than one million subscribers and its primary operation zone is Mumbai. It has won several awards in customer satisfaction surveys across Mumbai city. BPL mobile has constantly strived to improve its technology and provide the customers the best of service and network. That also explains its good coverage and appreciative clarity. Its technological improvement reflects in unique network design, camel phase 2 intelligent network (IN) platform, the qualnet, GPRS and MMS services.

BPL offers various services in prepaid and postpaid segments. Exciting prepaid offers are; Utsav Offer, New 10 ka Gang for Existing Subscribers & Etopup, Jaadu Recharge, Lifetime Validity @ Rs 299, Jaadu 41, Jaadu 61, Jaadu 32, 1ndia Prepaid - All Calls & SMS @ Re 1 (local & STD) to name a few. Other benefits of BPL prepaid connections are; seamless roaming, SMS bundle pack (quite suitable for students), Night pack, Zone advantage and several recharge options. BPL’s recent ‘get in the loop’ postpaid service managed to acquire many new subscribers because of the low call rates and other features.

It also boasts of various value added services that include; unlimited email on GPRS enabled handsets, voice sms, BlackBerry smart phone, Mobile contests and numerous wallpapers, ring tones, games, mini movies etc. Other facilities are itemized billing, clip caller ID, call conference and CLIR.

It also provides M-commerce, missed call alerts, mobile tracker, voicemail and other value enabled services like jokes, astrology, news, movies, music and images. Facilities like Sim replacements, handset sales and service enquiries also come handy to its customers. BPL has several galleries spread all across the Mumbai city and that makes it very convenient for its subscribers.

BPL customers can also pay their bills at any of the BPL Mobile Galleries spread across the city or even slip the cheques in drop boxes at select locations. Other payment options are online bill payment or through ATM.

For further information: BPL Mobile - Postpaid Connection Plans.

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BSNL mobile

BSNL (Bharat Sanchar Nigam Ltd.) was incorporated in October, 2000. One of the largest public sector company of India, it is world's 7th largest Telecommunications Company. BSNL first started its telecom operation in fixed line telephony. Gradually it started to provide wide-ranging telecom services in India including; CDMA mobile, Wireline, GSM Mobile, Broadband, Carrier service, Internet, MPLS-VPN, VSAT, VoIP services, IN Services etc.

BSNL’s expertise lies in installing Quality Telecom Network all across the country and with the passage of time it has managed to expand its network and has also introduced new telecom services with ICT applications in rural segments of India. BSNL has immensely helped in spreading telephone services in rural region of India. It possesses the widest network providing services in the country and is operational all over the India except Delhi and Mumbai.

BSNL Mobile is miles ahead of other service providers because of its wide network, national and international SMS facility, international roaming, affordable tariff charges that have been designed keeping in view the common man and its pan-India presence.

The value added services offered by BSNL are; voice mail service, SIM based service, SMS, group messaging, national & international roaming, call conferencing, friend and family talk, call forwarding, corporate virtual private network, call waiting and call holding facility and unified messaging services (UMS). UMS involves Voice mail, FAX, e-mail, text to voice etc. It also offers Wireless Application Protocol (WAP) service which is used for internet surfing.

CellOne is BSNL’s cellular service and it offers a comprehensive list of attractive packages in prepaid and postpaid segments. Popular BSNL mobile post paid services are; Plan 99, Plan 225, Plan 299 - One India, Plan 325, Plan 490, Plan 525, Plan 550, Plan 725 and Plan 999 etc. Major prepaid plans are, general plans with three options, Saral Anant and super one India plan. Different denominations of recharge coupons, top up cards, Flexi and C-Top cards are also available.

For further information, please visit Bharat Sanchar Nigam Ltd..

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