ravi_patent 28 Report post Posted February 26, 2009 http://economictimes.indiatimes.com/articl...7.cms?prtpage=1 Virgin Mobile India, a 50:50 joint-venture between UK’s Virgin Group and Tata Teleservices (TTSL), is soon planning to foray into the GSM mobile services space. It is going to bank on the soon-to-be-launched GSM network of TTSL for its GSM services. Virgin Mobile positions itself as India’s first youth-centric mobile service. At present, Virgin mobile services are offered under the CDMA technology platform by TTSL through a brand franchisee arrangement. The company facilitates TTSL in designing, marketing and servicing of the services and there is a revenue sharing arrangement between both the companies. "Our agreement with TTSL is technology neutral. At present, our services are restricted to CDMA. Once TTSL unveils its GSM network, we will extend the Virgin services into GSM as well. TTSL is our preferred partner for the GSM brand extension in India," Virgin Mobile India CEO M.A. Madhusudan told ET. Virgin Group chief Richard Branson had last year expressed his intention to enter the GSM mobile services space in India. The company was then waiting for freeing up of additional GSM spectrum. Virgin Mobile is now gearing up to launch its GSM service as soon as TTSL does. TTSL has announced plans to join the GSM bandwagon this year itself. "Nearly 73% of the Indian mobile market is controlled by GSM operators. An entry into GSM will help us to expand our addressable market and also increase our average revenue per user (ARPU). Currently, our ARPU is nearly 30% higher than the industry average," said Mr Madhusudan. Virgin currently offers innovative tariff plans such as ten paise credit for every minute of incoming call and STD at 50 paise at no extra charges. "We plan to offer similar innovative tariff plans for our GSM services. There will be a lot of handset bundling deals as well," said Virgin Mobile India chief marketing officer Prasad Narasimhan. In a bid to expand its portfolio, Virgin is also keen to enter the business phone segment. "We are in talks with multiple handset vendors, including Research in Motion (makers of BlackBerry handsets). Our business services will be tailormade for someone who is in his early days of job. There are also plans to launch data cards," Mr Madhusudan said. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
me_saket 73 Report post Posted February 26, 2009 I think TTSL will not provide any tariff under TATA GSM brand. Instead total spectum will be used by Virgin mobile itself, because TTSL is developing it's CDMA netwok with world most advance technology operator NTT DoCoMo. and eventually virgin will exit from cdma. Expecting 50paise/10paise call rate from virgin mobile.- Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
SUDYEcaZ 67 Report post Posted March 10, 2009 In India Virgin Does not operate as MVNO, they have a kind of branding contract with tata on a revenue sharing basis, where Virgin is just marketing TATA product(Mobile) under Virgin Brand, So Virgin will exist on Both Tata CDMA and GSM, Yes plans will be comparaable to CDMA plans as offered, dont expect something extraordinary Specially now when termination charge is reduced to 20 paise, its just a matter of month that Virgin will close its offer like Get talktime on Incoming calls Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
savramesh 37 Report post Posted March 10, 2009 welcome to virgin gsm.. better tata to stick with cdma... let virgin play for them... Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Sadikk 301 Report post Posted March 10, 2009 MVNO soon to be allowed in india. And VIRGIN being largest MVNO in the world will benefit TATA as well as other companies. But VIRGIN have tough competition in india as NOKIA also planning to launch MVNO in india. Imagine NOKIA as service provider, who will not buy them? Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
SUDYEcaZ 67 Report post Posted March 10, 2009 Nokia as MVNO?? Bhai sadikk where did u get this news from? Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
srk006 21 Report post Posted March 10, 2009 (edited) ^^ Nokia and Ericsson are considering offering mobile services in India, after local regulators gave the go-ahead for MVNOs to enter the market.The Financial Chronicle reported that the two vendors are among a number of foreign companies that have made contact with the country's Department of Telecommunications (DoT) about establishing a presence in India. http://www.totaltele.com/view.aspx?ID=443748 and another news denying it Ericsson and Nokia on Friday denied they plan to offer MVNO services in India."The speculation is completely incorrect – it's pure nonsense," an Ericsson spokeswoman told Total Telecom. "Nokia is not planning on offering MVNO services in India," commented a Nokia Siemens Networks spokesman. http://www.totaltele.com/view.aspx?ID=443791 Edited March 10, 2009 by srk006 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Saurav 22 Report post Posted March 10, 2009 As Call termination charges charges have been reduced so should I expect Virgin will Call off their "Get Paid for Incoming Scheme". Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
me_saket 73 Report post Posted March 12, 2009 As Call termination charges charges have been reduced so should I expect Virgin will Call off their "Get Paid for Incoming Scheme". yes it will be true for virgin, and this scheme don't benifit virgin too, no crowd pulling with even if incoming is paid. LEt new offer come from virgin after FREE SMS Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
me_saket 73 Report post Posted June 27, 2009 any news for lauch of virgin in GSM Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
