swapnil05in 2 Report post Posted October 8, 2012 NEW DELHI: Sistema Shyam (SSTL), which provides services under brand name of MTS, will start sellingmobile phones that will support both CDMA and GSM connections from next month. "We will launch multimode phones from October. It will be CDMA with GSM smartpone in the price range of Rs 6,000 to Rs 12,000," SSTL Chief Marketing and Sales Officer Lenny Musatov said on sidelines CDG International Roaming Team meet. The strategy of company is to leverage on the business model of China Mobile which is going to procure large number of dual technology based smartphone that is expected to lower cost of such handsets. The company has also aligned its dual technology phones business with CDMA Development Group initiative to provide international roaming for CDMA users across world and even in countries where there is no CDMA network. "We are regularly working with carriers (service providers) to provide international roaming facility to CDMA users. "Through multi-mode handsets (phones supporting multiple technnology like CDMA and GSM), we are trying to provide international roaming facility in where there is no CDMA network," CDG Chairman Federico Nienstadt said. He said that 115 CDMA out of 331 operators across globe have signed international roaming agreement. CDMA technology has around 15 per cent market share in global mobile phone market. source: http://economictimes.indiatimes.com/tech/hardware/mts-india-to-launch-dual-technology-phones-from-october/articleshow/16450117.cms Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
aalok 442 Report post Posted October 8, 2012 nice move by MTS... triggered from tappa-talk 2... Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
rajanmehta 4,056 Report post Posted October 8, 2012 Heard the same thing many months before also. Nothing came out of it. They are talking of giving international roaming on GSM SIM. So it may be locked handsets which can't be used for indian GSM network operators. In that case, it's going to be useless for 99% of the subscribers. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
sougatadc 358 Report post Posted October 8, 2012 Are they telling about that taking over of Aircel? Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
inception 75 Report post Posted October 10, 2012 If MTS buy Aircel, there is high chance that MTS will use Aircel's 1800 MHz spectrum for LTE-FDD, a technology more mature than LTE-TDD. LTE-TDD is the technology is deployed in India over 2300 MHz (band 40) band by BWA/4G players. LTE1800 has seen huge response from operators across globe, as GSA report says around 1/3rd of LTE networks are going live over 1800MHz band. Regarding MTS's dual SIM smartphones, it is all about in talks. Announced on CDG summit I am not sure when these phones will go launched. 1 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
