Aircel launches GSM services in Bangalore

Aircel, one of the fast growing Pan India telecom operator in the country, today launched 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.

Gurdeep Singh, Chief Operating Officer, Aircel said: "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 50 paise for all subsequent minutes. The Bangalure launch augments the next phase of our Pan India roll-out."

Aircel will be launching a rich bouquet of VAS services with localised content including a WAP portal page in the local language that would work on any GPRS handset, he said.

Bangalore, having a strong business corridor with Kerala and Tamil Nadu, Aircel has introduced segment wise tailored offers for its customers.It enables subscribers in Bangalore to make STD calls to Kerala and Tamil Nadu Aircel to Aircel at only Re 1 per minute. 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 per minute and calls to US/Canada at 3.99 per minute, Singh said in a release.