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Tata Teleservices to rollout services in 1,000 towns
By siliconindia staff writer
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Monday, 01 March 2004, 20:30 IST
MUMBAI: In an attempt to garner a pan-India footprint, telecom service provider Tata Teleservices Ltd (TTSL) is planning to launch in a phased manner its services across 1,000 new towns in India by March 2005, of which 800 towns would be covered by the end of this year.
"We plan to expand our presence by consolidating strengths in existing circles and further expanding to new circles. This will help us gain a national footprint and tap the potential of the booming mobile telephony market," TTSL managing director S Ramakrishnan told PTI in Mumbai.
Improving capacity and network presence would also benefit Tata Indicom customers as they would have greater access across the country, he said.
TTSL, which has acquired licence to operate across 11 new circles in the country, plans to launch its services in 300 new towns in existing circles by June this year under the first phase of the roll out, he said.
The company plans to have a national footprint and targets to reach 500 new towns by December 2004 in the next phase of roll out and remaining is expected to be completed by March 2005, he said.
The proposed rollout is the fastest network plan by any telecommunication company to be executed in the country, he claimed, adding, at present, TTSL is operational across 46 towns in six circles.