MTS India Announces Its Plans For MNP

MTS India Announces Its Plans For MNP

Sistema Shyam Teleservices Ltd (SSTL) which operates its telecom services under the brand MTS; today announced a range of innovative offerings for GSM and CDMA customers wanting to come on board the MTS’ congestion free network. These offerings have been specially designed to offer convenience and benefits to customers switching to MTS’ network. MTS has partnered with leading banks to offer the latest range of Smartphones through Easy Monthly Instalment (EMI) options. The customers can enjoy a slew of benefits including free MTS to MTS local calls, free data and free local SMS. Customers can also enjoy the popular tariff of MTS – Half paisa, pioneered by MTS.

According to Leonid Musatov, Chief Marketing Officer, Sistema Shyam Teleservices Ltd, “The roll out of Mobile Number Portability marks yet another milestone for the highly competitive telecom market in the country. It represents a very good opportunity for customers to experience MTS’s high speed network. Given our congestion free network and world class customer care set up, MTS is excited to launch a slew of innovations for the benefit of migrating customers across India. I am confident that mobile customers will find all our offerings extremely appealing.”

Celcom and DiGi pioneer extensive network sharing in Malaysia

Celcom and DiGi pioneer extensive network sharing in Malaysia

Celcom Axiata Berhad (“Celcom”) and DiGi Telecommunications Sdn Bhd (“DiGi”) today signed a network collaboration agreement that will pave the way for the two leading operators in Malaysia to join forces to deploy a cohesive network.

The scope of this extensive collaboration will initially focus on the sharing of telecommunication sites, access transmission (microwave links), aggregation transmission and trunk fibre transmission. It is among the first in-depth sharing of network resources to be undertaken in this part of the world.

Signing on behalf of their respective companies were Dato’ Sri Shazalli Ramly, Chief Executive O!cer of Celcom and Henrik Clausen, Chief Executive O!cer of DiGi. Also present from respective holding companies were Dato’ Sri Jamaludin Ibrahim, Managing Director/President and Group Chief Executive O!cer of Axiata Group Berhad and Jan Edvard Thygesen, Executive Vice President of Telenor ASA.

This agreement lays the foundation for both parties to consolidate and upgrade over 4,000 sites and fibre transmission network in subsequent phases, geared towards full implementation by 2015. This will begin with an initial phase covering 218 sites from each operator.