MTS India To Dial Postpaid Plans In Kolkata And RoB

MTS India To Dial Postpaid Plans In Kolkata And RobMTS India the CDMA teleservices from Sistema-Shyam Teleservices Limited (SSTL) has planned to roll out postpaid plans in Kolkata circles.

SSTL’s CDMA Mobile services under the brand name of MTS India was launched in India in March 2009 and in less than a year the operator has grabbed an impressive 3.5 million subscribers in eleven circles which include Tamil Nadu including Chennai, Kerala, Rajasthan, Kolkata, West Bengal, Bihar-Jharkhand, Delhi, Karnataka, Haryana, Mumbai and Maharashtra-Goa.

Along with voice-sms services, MTS is also offering EVDO based high speed (upto 3.1Mbps) wireless internet services with plug-n-play USB device under brand name of MBlaze in selected cities over India.

As per Association of Unified Telecom Service Providers of India (AUSPI) report, MTS has a customer base of more than 3 lakh in Kolkata and more than 5 lakh in West Bengal on 28th February 2010. It should be noted that SSTL was the only licensee in 2008 2G spectrum auction who chose CDMA sector, and still now MTS is going great. Offering a cheapest 30p/min or 1p/2seconds for lifetime MTS, despite a CDMA operator has done very well. At present Kolkata and WB has 3 CDMA operators – Reliance, Tata Indicom (& Virgin Mobile) and MTS.

From the very first, MTS is offering great network in Kolkata. Seamless connectivity of MTS is spreading through out the districts of WB in a rapid way. Following its success on prepaid services, MTS plans to roll out postpaid services in Kolkata and West Bengal. MTS also offers postpaid services in Rajasthan circles at an affordable price. During this april, MTS plans to roll out postpaid plans in selected cities. Kolkata, Siliguri, Asansol, Durgapur, Haldia, Khargpur, Krishnanagar will get MTS postpaid offerings very soon.

Targeting high ARPU users, MTS is also planning to roll out CDMA smartphones priced from Rs. 5000 to Rs. 25000. MTS customers will be really happy to know that MTS is also coming up with internet on mobile with these smartphones offering. For details of MTS Postpaid plans in Kolkata & WB stay tuned to TelecomTalk.

This Article Was Written By: Rudradeep Biswas

Rudradeep Biswas - Senior Telecom Analyst

The happy guy RDB (stands for Rudradeep Biswas) has been writing for Telecomtalk since 2009, covering mobile operators, 3G, broadband, WiFi, 4G, LTE, telecom policies and what-not related to Indian telecom. He is by profession a doctor, did his MBBS from R.G.Kar Medical College, Kolkata.

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  • Vikash July 6, 2012 at 6:33 pm

    what is the best plan for local and std calling

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  • sampatcharan March 7, 2011 at 1:38 pm

    tell me a better plan for local & std call rates plan till 350/- per month

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  • arvind singh August 3, 2010 at 6:59 pm

    i want to know about a postpaid connection of mts

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  • rajiev April 6, 2010 at 3:34 pm

    they r preparing

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  • MaNoJ April 6, 2010 at 1:59 pm

    Why all operators have partiality between prepaid & postpaid subscriber.????
    They always give priority to postpaid subscriber. !!!

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  • Avishek April 5, 2010 at 9:37 pm

    Delhi-Haryana :
    tariff plan kya hai.

    Till their is no hints of tariffs…hope it will be good as per as prepaid tariff!!!

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  • Avishek April 5, 2010 at 9:36 pm

    Agnivo :
    Seems they will bring in HTC CDMA handsets…

    Hope so!!!…..HTC,Google,Samsung,Motorola……..all are available with good rates & good functions!!!….& also with good data & voice-sms tariffs!!!….

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  • Agnivo April 5, 2010 at 5:48 pm

    Seems they will bring in HTC CDMA handsets…

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  • Delhi-Haryana April 5, 2010 at 3:21 pm

    tariff plan kya hai.

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  • Avishek April 5, 2010 at 3:08 pm

    MTS launch their post paid service,mobile internet,smartphones ranging from 7000-30000/- in the month of april in kolkata,siliguri,durgapur,asansol(all r in west bengal)….& in 2nd phase(July’10) they will launch all this in Midnapur,Kharagpur,darjeeling,krishnanagar,haldia(all r in west bengal)…..

    They are targeting the city’s which are under their evdo service in first phase…..so hope that we,in kharagpur & medinipur will also get evdo by MTS soon…as this towns are equipped with this facilities in the 2nd phase….Good going MTS….Hope for good branded smartphones as available in USA in CDMA platform…..

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  • Shoeb April 5, 2010 at 12:56 pm

    mts has launched Mblaze in Pune but not its Mobile services.. why’s that???

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  • Avishek April 5, 2010 at 9:06 am

    Very good news for mts users like me.It already has superb network,lowest tariff..now we also get postpaid service,good high end smartphones,& internet on mobile..if they offer good tariffs & cheap data service with postpaid,then i surely grab the postpaid connection..good to know this,that they offer those fecilities at kharagpu,my town..in the first phase..hope they will give good handsets,best postpaid offerings & cheap data service..as all good tariffs they offers through prepaid service..but when they will launch all thease?anybody has any news regarding the launch time?I have good relation with a senior officer of mts kolkata..i will try to get some info from him & will update tt very soon..

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  • saket April 5, 2010 at 8:22 am

    wow, but postpaid shud be supported with strong service from CC and outlet.
    Also supported by good quality of phone and smartphone.

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