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Spice ties up with rediff.com
By siliconindia
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Tuesday, 03 September 2002, 19:30 IST
NEW DELHI: Spice mobile phone users in Punjab can now access their rediff mail accounts on their handsets as Spice Telecom, Punjab's leading cellular service provider today tied up with rediff.com.
The tie up enables Spice customers to send and receive e-mails from their rediff mail accounts using their Spice mobiles. The contents of the mailbox and mail messages will be displayed as SMS messages on individual handsets. While each message will be restricted to 160 characters only, longer mails can be viewed by sending multiple requests.
Rohit Malhothra, vice president - sales & marketing, Spice Telecom Ltd, said, "Tie up such as this one with rediff.com allow us to leapfrog with our leading-edge technology and offer unique value- added service to our customers. The driving force behind all our new initiatives is in keeping with our credo of 'Spice Hai Toh Life Hai'".
Spice is presently operating cellular phone services in the states of Punjab and Karnataka. Spice Punjab is a 51:49 joint venture between Spicecorp (India) and DISTACOM (Hong Kong). Spice is Punjab's premier mobile phone service provider and is the first cellular operator in India to be ISO 9001-2000 certified for its entire operations.