Uninor, the joint venture of Unitech and Norway telecom major Telenor today said that it will scale down GSM operations in Four circles out of the total 13 telecom circles where it is commercially active to focus resources on the remaining areas.
Uninor India management has decided to prioritise its focus on Mumbai, Maharashtra & Goa and seven other best performing circles of UP East, UP West, Bihar and Jharkhand, Kolkata, West Bengal, Andhra Pradesh and Gujarat. This also means that the company’s operations in the four circles of Tamil Nadu, Kerala, Karnataka and Orissa will be gradually scaled down.
The Operator said that this decision has been taken in light of the continuing uncertainty around the 2G auction policy and timing (may be High Price).
Sigve Brekke, Managing Director, Uninor said “Since launch, Uninor has remained among the top 5 GSM operators in Mumbai, Maharashtra & Goa. This is one of our most successful circles and we will continue to invest and expand operations aggressively here. “Our plan now is to enter the auctions with an even stronger presence in the nine circles including Mumbai and Maharashtra & Goa, auction rules permitting. We will focus funds, resources and all our efforts to meet even more aggressive targets in these nine circles.”
Uninor is among eight Mobile Service operators who are set to lose its 2G license by September September as per Supreme Court’s 2G scam verdict to revoke all telecoms licences granted in 2008.
Davanam manju August 7, 2012 at 2:15 pm
As private operators shutting down in future also currently like uninor..so switch on /port your number to our one and only n/w BSNL.BSNL is the best and a public sector n/w which is serving through out India in one of the top among all private operators, all private 2G SCAM networks should shutt down.So our BSNL a public sector company will grow up in future.
Idrees July 30, 2012 at 9:57 am
uninor website shows plans for j&k circle also but they have not launched the services in j&k yet,y is it so?
abhijith July 26, 2012 at 8:08 pm
@jagan not get activated . . Blocked by videocon itself
Pappu July 26, 2012 at 11:39 am
I’ve already started to phase out Uninor from the fleet of my SIM cards. Service quality in Kolkata circle is far down now. I hauled in the RF team into my home last year and services improved significantly, but right now my opinion is Uninor must concentrate upon quality if they want to exist at all.
jagan July 26, 2012 at 8:09 am
Not providing means , the booster packs not gets activated or the retailer refusing to recharge ? What u r mean to say ?
Rohit July 25, 2012 at 7:58 pm
Govt sud only give licence to big player , so that these type of cmny cant come in india and just make fraud customers on freebies, they dont hv gud coverage not even 3g. how can they come with new technology. only voice call is not the future. future is data data n data only.
Hope Airtel, Voda, Idea & Bsnl will keep giving gud services in pan india; others sud shut down.
max July 25, 2012 at 6:19 pm
i know dear, but instead of writing something new here these people trying to dominate others. so this lol is for them.
have written this coz i want to start some new conversion here
pavan July 25, 2012 at 4:01 pm
Vodafone is great!!! good network and great plans…1/2 p/sec call anywhere in india
abhijith July 25, 2012 at 2:32 pm
Bye bye uninor
Vineet July 25, 2012 at 1:59 pm
Airtel is chargeing 2p/sec all local call and 2.5p/ sec all std call.in bihar circle from today.
ARJUN CHANDRASHEKAR July 25, 2012 at 12:45 pm
@bharathkumara
By The By I’m Happy to throw this Idiot Service Sim Card From My Mobile. Useless Uninor No Network inside My Office
jeet July 25, 2012 at 12:39 pm
last 5 day my tata docomo no charge ,every se 2p/sec just double,custmer care are f@@kur, nt support.
Raghu July 25, 2012 at 9:52 am
@Amit.g
u are right. i am happy i can use Uninor for some more time.
bharathkumara July 25, 2012 at 8:51 am
lol…. hehe… max… aircel already have pan india network, but uninor licence are canceled, they need to pay fees for spectrum..
abhijith July 24, 2012 at 11:47 pm
@jagan
i heard that videocon is also in same condition of uninor . . They not providing any booster packs in kanyakumari district . .
max July 24, 2012 at 10:41 pm
lol
max July 24, 2012 at 10:38 pm
trai should implement rule that any operator who are bidding for upcoming 2g spectrum action——-
1> operator must bid for pan india spectrum
2> if they are not interested to roll out their services in pan india then no problem but they should pay spectrum fees to govt.
3> 50% spectrum fees should be in advance and 50% should be on spectrum they are utilizing
4> instead of charging one time spectrum free they should charge operator on per customer per call basis
Esmail July 24, 2012 at 9:13 pm
On one hand the new Telecom policy is aiming towards achieving One India one plan, and free national roaming, and on the other hand operators like Uninor are shutting down services in select circles and focusing on other circles. How will the aim of the new policy be fulfilled in such a scenario, it would be better if Telenor would have joined hands with Aircel to provide Pan India 2G, 3G and 4G services with same tariff plans across all circles with roaming free. Also the merger would cause pooling of assets which could be used to set up new towers and improve network quality.
Jay July 24, 2012 at 8:53 pm
Personally, I feel it’s good that Uninor has opted to move out of TN.. It’s true that they are offering the best in market offers, but they have not increased coverage in any part of TN, after the launch… That’s a big reason why many didn’t opt for Uninor in TN.. But I must say they gave some of the best offers, which no company could even dare to copy !!!
Amit.g July 24, 2012 at 7:42 pm
Good that they are leaving, Already Aircel launched A-A 2000mins for 38Rs in Karnataka!!! But will miss the network Quality of Uninor.
Ill rank its network quality(Connectivity & clarity) Equal to AIrtel..
ARJUN CHANDRASHEKAR July 24, 2012 at 7:11 pm
@Raghu
W.T.F Operator Uninor is. Better they Need to shut down their Services
Tharun George July 24, 2012 at 7:00 pm
So they are shutting doors towards south Indians.
Uninor had good network coverage. Better than Docomo and Aircel. But there data speed is pathetic at 6kbps. Also stupid customer care and nodal office who don’t refund for their problem. I had to go to pgportal to get refund.
Raghu July 24, 2012 at 6:46 pm
@Sayan Chattopadhyay
yes i did tell as per my personal experience.they came to my place and i am able to make calls after that but before that i was not able to make calls. but i do not know what will happen in your case.
Raghu July 24, 2012 at 6:45 pm
@Jagannath
please complain in pgportal.gov.in u will definitely get ur balance back.
Sayan Chattopadhyay July 24, 2012 at 6:32 pm
i have complained for terrible network congestion issues. Is it day or night it is too hard to call any number.
I can remember that few days ago you have advised me to do the same. Lets see what happens.
Jagannath July 24, 2012 at 6:23 pm
Uninor has done a false deduction of Rs.26 today on my number & the customer care helpline 121 is not accessible
Looks like they have started downgrading the quality of services too, in these 4 circles…
ARJUN CHANDRASHEKAR July 24, 2012 at 5:43 pm
@max
You folks are always saying the merging of UNINOR and AIRCEL. Without Knowing The Proper Reason Don’t Make Foolish Statements. I’ll Say That BSNL May Be Merge With AIRTEL, Can it Be? No Way. So Please post your Opinion with Twice Thinking
Raghu July 24, 2012 at 4:57 pm
@Merc
it all depends on the auction price on that basis they will decide whether to bid all circles or not
Raghu July 24, 2012 at 4:56 pm
@Sayan Chattopadhyay
it will take time as immediately u will not get a response at PGPORTAL. in 10 days u will get a reply hopefully. what did u complain for?
AMOL July 24, 2012 at 4:20 pm
LOOP MOBILE AND UNINOR NETWORK TIED UP IN MUMBAI CIRCLE.
max July 24, 2012 at 3:54 pm
aircel and uninor will be merge, i guess
prathap July 24, 2012 at 3:35 pm
what will happen to the employees…….this is real bad….
Merc July 24, 2012 at 3:35 pm
Looks like Uninor is planning to bid only for these 9 circles in upcoming auctions
Sayan Chattopadhyay July 24, 2012 at 3:13 pm
yesterday i’ve lodged a complain about uninor at pgportal but still now nothing happened!
jagan July 24, 2012 at 3:10 pm
What about videocon ? Will it continue it’s service in Tamilnadu ? Anybody have any idea about this ?
Raghu July 24, 2012 at 3:00 pm
@ TT
so till they get back the license they will not invest and sell new sim cards in the 4 circles? am i right?
Dilip Kumar Ghosh July 24, 2012 at 2:24 pm
Uninor will not sell any new SIM cards in these 4 circles
kiran.h July 24, 2012 at 2:23 pm
So does it mean that uninor will shut down its operations in karnataks,TN,Kerala ??
atanu July 24, 2012 at 2:14 pm
but network not up to the mark in both kolkata & west bengal.
Pavan July 24, 2012 at 2:02 pm
They have switched off their network signals at many places in Karnataka where they actually had their own towers.
Ramesh Darji July 24, 2012 at 1:50 pm
Good news for Mumbai and Gujarat, as such active players needed to control the prices of mobile tarrif, Specifically in gujarat people are much happy with the bottom low cost tarrif and compared to reliance and tata it is best performer.