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Sanjay November 25th, 2013 3:39 PM 22 COMMENTS

MTS India to Setup Kiosks at Big Bazaar to offer New Connections, Recharge, Bill payments and Services in Kolkata

Pure CDMA player MTS India today announced its partnership with the hypermarket retail chain – Big Bazaar where in its customers can experience the entire range of MTS products and services including new connections, recharge (both Voice & Data), bill payments, SIM replacement, etc at special Kiosks. As part of the association, MTS India (SSTL) will setup in shop kiosks in 12 Big Bazaar stores at prominent locations across Kolkata... Read More

Rudradeep Biswas October 30th, 2013 4:36 AM 59 COMMENTS

Does MTS 3GPLUS Really Have The Edge Over 3G Operators in India, Our Take !

Last week Russian business major Sistema's Indian telecom arm, Sistema Shyam Teleservices ( SSTL) has announced the roll out of 3GPLUS network across 9 circles where the company is operating. While MTS is selling the EVDO Rev B phase II services under MBlaze Ultra branding, they are pushing the '3GPLUS' branding for the network. EVDO is actually 3rd generation technology for CDMA, but in India there was no auction for... Read More

Rudradeep Biswas October 23rd, 2013 1:50 AM 14 COMMENTS

MTS to Roll Out RevB Ultra Services in Kolkata and Cities

After receiving 3rd carrier on 800MHz band and unified licenses MTS India is in full swing to upgrade their existing high speed data network. In Kolkata MTS is ready to roll out its RevB services, MBlaze Ultra. I found these Ultra dongles available on their retail showrooms. It can be noted that MTS India is the world's first operator to roll out Evdo rev b phase 2 network, which can... Read More

Sanjay October 9th, 2013 3:02 PM 9 COMMENTS

MTS India (SSTL) Receives Its 3rd Carrier in 800 Mhz Spectrum Band in 8 Circles

Pure CDMA Mobile and Data Service operator, MTS India ( Sistema Shyam TeleServices Limited) today announced that it has received its 3rd carrier in the 800 Mhz spectrum band from the Department of Telecom (DoT). The allotment of the 3rd carrier is significant as MTS India would now be able to launch its next generation, REV B Phase II telecom services (EVDO - High Speed Data Network). It may be... Read More

Sanjay October 4th, 2013 2:03 PM 37 COMMENTS

MTS India (SSTL) Becomes the First Telecom Operator In India To Get A Unified Telecom License

Sistema Shyam TeleServices Limited that provides telecom services under the brand name MTS today announced that it has received its Unified Telecom License effective from 3rd October, 2013. The Unified License will enable MTS India (SSTL) to provide technology neutral telecom services (GSM/CDMA/LTE) for a period of 20 years in 8 circles – Delhi, Gujarat, Karnataka, Kerala, Kolkata, Tamil Nadu, UP (West) and West Bengal. With this development, SSTL becomes... Read More

Rudradeep Biswas October 4th, 2013 1:57 PM 11 COMMENTS

MTS Launched Duet II with Android 2.3 for Rs 5199: Does it Make Any Sense?

India's pure-play CDMA player MTS India has launched another CDMA & GSM dual SIM Android smartphone - Duet II for Rs 5199. MTS is pushing its CDMA+GSM dual SIM Android smartphones to capture data market from GSM customers. Earlier MTS had launched Duet smartphone with similar features. Duet II is actually ZTE N855D and it comes with 4 inch display, 1GHz processor, 3.2 MP camera, 1650 mAh battery and usual... Read More

Rudradeep Biswas October 1st, 2013 2:13 PM 11 COMMENTS

MTS Launches Prepaid Rev B M-Ultra Services in Rajasthan

MTS India, the CDMA data and voice services brand from Sistema Shyam Teleservices has rolled out its prepaid M-Ultra services in Rajasthan circle. MTS has CDMA EVDO Rev B Phase II based M-Ultra services in 5 cities of Rajasthan. M-Ultra services can offer upto 9.8Mbps downlink and upto 3.6Mbps uplink. New customers can buy the M-Ultra devices for just Rs 1400 and can enjoy 10 GB high speed data for... Read More

Sanjay September 26th, 2013 8:29 PM 9 COMMENTS

MTS India Want to Buy Additional Spectrum to Expand Operations Across the Country

Sistema Shyam TeleServices Ltd. (SSTL), which provides CDMA Mobile and Data services under the MTS brand today, informed Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (Trai) that it wants to invest in India and participate in upcoming spectrum auctions to expand operations in more telecom circles in the country. MTS India has said this in a protest letter to India's telecom regulator TRAI against its recommendation to Department of Telecom (DoT) that... Read More

Rudradeep Biswas September 14th, 2013 12:08 PM 11 COMMENTS

Rev B is Immediate Future: Interview with Sandeep Yadav, Head Data and Smartphone Business, MTS India

Despite a new company, Sistema Shyam Teleservices, operates as MTS India has a strong footprint in the mobile broadband market of India. Since Sistema entered in the country in 2008 by acquiring Shyam Telelink the company had a rough journey. Firstly they are using CDMA technology in a GSM-ruled market, second blow came in February 2012 when Supreme Court cancelled SSTL's licenses in 21 circles. However the company decided not... Read More

Rudradeep Biswas September 9th, 2013 8:53 AM 16 COMMENTS

Data Tariff War: MTS India Offers 1GB UL + 50 Local Minutes for Rs 155

One after another response to the mobile broadband data tariff war, the latest is from pure-play CDMA operator MTS India. Earlier we pointed out that 3G tariff is now cheaper than MTS India's CDMA based high speed data offerings. CDMA, though have its own technological advantages on offering data over 3G/WCDMA/HSPA is not popular mobile technology in India. Here GSM rules and CDMA players like Reliance Communications and Tata Teleservices... Read More

Sanjay September 4th, 2013 2:44 PM 11 COMMENTS

MTS India Offers MTS to MTS Local, STD Calls and SMS at 10paisa

Pure CDMA mobile service porvider MTS today, launched an exciting ‘return of 10 paisa’ initiative where in customer can enjoy cheapest own network tariff - all MTS to MTS local and STD calls just 10paisa per minute. MTS India's prepaid customers availing this offer just need to pay Rs. 11 to enjoy all MTS to MTS local and STD calls @ 10p/min and local and national SMS at 10 paisa... Read More

Rudradeep Biswas August 27th, 2013 9:27 PM 32 COMMENTS

Data War: is CDMA Player MTS Losing the Game?

CDMA is dying in India – post MNP thousands of customers moved out from CDMA networks (mostly Reliance and Tata Docomo) and joined GSM networks. Country’s only pure-play CDMA operator MTS India, the telecom service brand of Sistema Shyam Teleservices is the sole savior of CDMA in the country. But are they taking right moves to make CDMA popular? Probably they are not, so main 7 concerns I find MTS... Read More