DoT hauls up Tata once again

[Arun 795]

Tata Teleservices on Thursday launched Push-to-Talk services offering customers the facility to make unlimited calls without any long distance or roaming charges within the network on a monthly rental of Rs 99.

The PTT service, which is the first by any mobile operator in the country, will offer instant connectivity across the country and Internet surfing at 3G speeds.

Announcing the launch of the service, Amit Bose, president, Tata Teleservices, said it was targeted at corporates, SMEs and individuals, and will be available on a Kyocera handset costing Rs 5,000 with Qualcomm's BREW Chat applications.

Presently, upto four subscribers sitting anywhere in the country can talk to each other at a cost of Rs 99 each.

The company has announced a CDMA based PTT service for post-paid users who will be paying Rs 99 a month for unlimited calls and will either buy a handset for Rs 5,000 upfront or pay Rs 1,000 with 12 installments of Rs 350 each.

The company will soon launch its pre-paid version, Bose said, adding PTT will have international roaming within a year.

The company also announced a GSM based PTT services with a handset price of Rs 15,000.

It offers CDMA-based mobile service under the brand name 'Tata Indicom' and is eyeing a customer base of 50,000 in the first year from the National Capital Territory.

The major benefit of PTT is that it frees the customer by allowing him to instantly call a group of people at no cost, Bose said.

[harsh 1]

tata users are very very less.

hence i dont think many are going to be benifited on their bills with this scheme.

[Utsav 0]

Any URL for the details?

[compenn 0]

where can we see the handsets?? which link?? any info....?

[Arun 795]

This is a Press release. No links to the offical website were mentioned.

[Puneet 0]

This is a Press release. No links to the offical website were mentioned.

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The link for PTT has been there since ages on the Tata Indicom site under Buseness Services for Small Medium Business and Enterprise. The service till now was avaiable only to corporates by invitation and that too in Bangalore only.

http://www.tataindicom.com/ptt/index.asp

PTT was developed by Qualcomm on BREW platform as a value added service, and Tata Indicom was one of the first service providers in the world to implement it. They were atleast the first in India for sure

http://www.tataindicom.com/pressroom/press_articles/ptt.asp

PTT is also offered by Hutch/Orange.

http://www.orange.co.in/ourservices/morese...s_push2talk.asp

http://www.hutch.co.in/corpsite/home/push2talk.asp

Edited December 23, 2004 by Puneet

[TeeKay 0]

i don't know what tata's PTT has on offer but i've used hutch pust to talk service and even though its fun, but its certainly not what people would want to do often....the biggest drawback being that since it operates like walky-talky only one person can speak at a time and the other big problem being that evertime you speak u have to keep a specific button pressed for the PTT service to work, which can be very iriitating even if u talk for 5 minutes......I don't know why people would go for this service when operators like reliance give free local as well as std calls these days....it makes sense only if u r on roaming and can manage to keep your keep your calm and use it like a walky talky. as for me i deactivated my Hutch PTT the day i came to know reliance is giving free local and std calls and opted for reliance instead, along with my group of friends.

[Chirag 5]

Now, DoT hauls up Tata

January 20, 2005 | 18:32 IST

Rediff.com

The Department of Telecom has issued a show cause notice to Tata Teleservices on their recently-launched Push-To-Talk services to verify the compliance with licence terms and conditions.

DoT has sought explanation on a few issues, including compliance to the numbering plan and access charges.

DoT has given a time of three days until Friday for the Tatas to explain.

This is the second show-cause notice by DoT to Tata Teleservices within a week. DoT had also sent a notice on the company's fixed wireless phones 'Walky', which has been positioned as a mobile phone.

Tata officials confirmed the receipt of the show cause notice but declined to comment.

Tatas had launched the Push-to-Talk services in December 2004, offering customers the facility to make unlimited calls without any long distance or roaming charges within the network on a monthly rental of just Rs 99.

The PTT service, which is the first by any mobile operator in the country, will offer instant connectivity across the country and Internet surfing at 3G speeds.

According to the Tatas, upto four subscribers sitting anywhere in the country can talk to each other at a cost of Rs 99 each.