About Aircel

Aircel is the largest mobile phone service provider in Tamil Nadu, India.

It offers both prepaid and postpaid GSM cellular phone coverage throughout Tamil Nadu, Assam, NE States, Orissa, West Bengal, J&K;, Bihar & HP.

Aircel, now part of Maxis Communications Berhad, Malaysia, is India’s fifth largest GSM mobile service provider with a subscriber base of over 6.2 million (over 4 million in Chennai & Tamil Nadu alone) and the fastest growing mobile operator in the country. As on date, Aircel is present in 9 telecom circles (Assam, Bihar, Chennai, Himachal Pradesh, Jammu & Kashmir, North East, Orissa, Tamil Nadu and West Bengal) and with licences secured for the remaining 14 of the 23 telecom circles, the company is on track to become a pan-India operator. Additionally, Aircel has also obtained the nod from Department of Telecommunications (DoT) to provide International Long Distance (ILD) and National Long Distance (NLD) telephony services. For more information, please log on to www.aircel.com

Aircel Business Solutions (ABS), part of Aircel, is headquartered in Chennai and is an ISO 9000 certified company. ABS is a registered member of WiMAX forum – both in the Indian and International Chapters. ABS’ product range includes a host of cutting-edge enterprise solutions such as Multi Protocol Label Switching Virtual Private Networks (MPLS VPNs), Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP) and Managed Video Services on wireless platform including WiMAX. For more information, please visit www.aircelbusinesssolutions.com"

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1. India will earn Rs 38,540 crore from selling three all-India licences to six private sector operators who participated in the auction, including Aircel, plus two government carriers. Together, revenue from the two auctions will touch Rs 1.06 trillion ($22.7 billion), about three times New Dehli's initial estimates -- a welcome windfall for a deficit-strapped government, although it puts pressure on telecoms firms.

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2. We are doing lot of initiative. We had Aircel iNQ Contest, i-Videostar, i-hunk, freshface, Airtel i-singer, i-serial star.

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3. We had launched voice-based services almost six weeks back, and since last two months we are offering services through Aircel and Tata Docomo. We now look to extend our services to Videocon and Reliance too.

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