Tata Teleservices (Maharashtra) Ltd.   (TTML)

Tata Teleservices Limited spearheads the Tata Group?s presence in the telecom sector. Incorporated in 1996, Tata Teleservices is the pioneer of the CDMA 1x technology platform in India. It has embarked on a growth path since the acquisition of Hughes Tele.com (India) Ltd [renamed Tata Teleservices (Maharashtra) Limited] by the Tata Group in 2002. It launched mobile operations in January 2005 under the brand name Tata Indicom and today enjoys a pan-India presence through existing operations in all of India?s 22 telecom Circles. The company is also the market leader in the fixed wireless telephony market. The company?s network has been rated as the ?Least Congested? in India for five consecutive quarters by the Telecom Regulatory Authority of India through independent surveys. Tata Teleservices operates under five different brands? Tata Indicom (CDMA services), Tata DOCOMO (GSM services), Virgin Mobile, Tata Walky (which is the brand for fixed wireless phones), Tata Photon (the company?s brand that provides a variety of options for wireless mobile broadband access) and T24. TTSL recently entered into a strategic partnership agreement with Indian retail giant Future Group to offer mobile telephony services under a new brand name?T24?on the GSM platform. Today, Tata Teleservices Ltd, along with Tata Teleservices (Maharashtra) Ltd, serves nearly 70 million customers in more than 450,000 towns and villages across the country, with a bouquet of telephony services encompassing Mobile Services, Wireless Desktop Phones, Public Booth Telephony and Wireline Services.

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