Cellular (Mobile) Operators of India

The Mobile phone industry in India is covered in this article. Mobile phones are usually called "mobile phones" or "cell phones" in India.

History

• The first mobile phone was launched in India during 1990s.
• The first mobile phone company was Nokia.
• First Mobile service provider was Modi Groups in 1995 and started in Kolkata, somewhere it was signed that mobile service provider was launched in 1994.

Mobile phone service operators

• Aircel

Aircel, headquartered in New Delhi, India has absorbed Cingular Wireless, and offers 2G service using GSM technology and 3G service using UMTS technology.

• Airtel

Airtel, with its head offices in both Mumbai and Berhampur, India provides 2G service using GSM and 3G service using UMTS/HSPA technology

• BSNL

BSNL, headquartered in New Delhi, is a public listed company and is state-owned. It offers 2G service using GSM and 3G service using U--Munnatiger (talk) 16:27, 10 November 2011 (UTC)MTS. It was the first service provider to introduce 3G services in India.

• MTNL

MTNL, headquartered in Mumbai is a public listed company and is state-owned and offers 2G service using CDMA and 3G service using GSM.

• Idea Cellular

Idea Cellular, headquartered in Mumbai, has absorbed Cingular Wireless, and offers 2G service using GSM technology and 3G service using UMTS technology.

• Ping Mobile
• Tata Indicom

Tata Indicom, with its head offices in both Navi Mumbai provides 2G service using cdmaOne and 3G service using CDMA2000 technology.

• Tata DoCoMo

Tata DoCoMo is joint venture company of Tata Teleservices and NTT DoCoMo

• Reliance Communications

Reliance Communications, with its head offices in Navi Mumbai, Maharashtra provides CMDA 2G service using cdmaOne and CDMA 3G service using CDMA2000 EVDO technology. It also provides GSM 2G services & 3G GSM HSDPA Services.

• Loop Mobile India (Formerly BPL Mobile)

Loop Mobile India, is a mobile phone service provider in Mumbai, Maharashtra, India

• Emirates Telecommunications Corporation (formerly SWAN Telecom)

In 2009 Etisalat has announced that its Indian unit, erstwhile Swan Telecom (owned by Dynamix Balwas Realty and Reliance Communications),[34] headquartered in Mumbai, is renamed to Etisalat DB Telecom India Pvt. Ltd Telecom Renamed Etisalat Telecom India Pvt. Ltd. The business unit has been awarded Unified Services Access License in 15 circles - Andhra Pradesh, Delhi, Gujarat, Haryana, Karnataka, Kerala, Maharashtra, Mumbai, Punjab, Rajasthan, Tamil Nadu (including Chennai), Uttar Pradesh (East), Uttar Pradesh (West), Madhya Pradesh and Bihar. In April 2010 Etisalat began signal testing in Chennai [IND 922], Delhi & NCR [IND 913], Maharashtra & Goa [IND 919], Mumbai [IND 916] and Gujarat[IND 914]. In May 2010, Etisalat was in talks to buy 25% stake in Reliance Communications, but the deal was not finalised.

In 2010, following the $39 billion 2G spectrum scam, Etisalat DB, the Indian subsidiary of the company, was stopped from buying a stake in a Chennai-based company due to objections raised by the India's home ministry(MHA). Etisalat DB was not allowed to buy back the 5.27 per cent stake held by Chennai-based Genex Exim Ventures since the home ministry raised objections based largely on security concerns. The MHA had pointed out four issues that needed to be resolved before allowing the company to come into Etisalat DB, a company that got scarce 2G spectrum at allegedly throwaway prices, First, vice-chairman Shahid Balwa should not be involved in the operations of the company in any capacity, because of his connections with underworld don Dawood Ibrahim,[36] second, the MHA raised objections about the commercial relationship between the Dubai-based Etisalat Group and China’s Huawei. The MHA suspects, Huawei has links with China’s People’s Liberation Army — the country’s military organisation of all land, sea, strategic missile and air forces — and has the capacity to manipulate equipment supply, third, it raised objections about Etisalat’s presence in Pakistan and it's connection with Pakistan's intelligence agency ISI. Etisalat owns a 26% stake in Pakistan Telecommunications and has a subscriber base of 3 million in Afghanistan and fourth, the MHA has also expressed concerns about the telecom surveillance software Etisalat had used in a Blackberry service it had introduced in the UAE and recommended that the company should not be allowed to offer Blackberry services in India

• Virgin Mobile CDMA
• Vodafone Essar (Formerly Hutchison Essar/Hutch Orange/Hutch Pink)
• Videocon Mobile Service (Formerly Datacom Solutions)
• Uninor
• MTS India
• S Tel
• Virgin Mobile GSM
• Spice Telecom

Handset Maker Companies of India

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1. X Electron
2. CAPLIGHT
3. Airnet
4. Ajanta Mobile
5. Anconn Mobile
6. Airphone
7. AROMA Mobiles
8. [[ .com Asiatelco]
9. BlackBerry
10. BLEU
11. Beetel
12. BPL Group
13. Byond tech
14. Colors mobile
15. celkon
16. c tel
17. Daya
18. Dell
19. Digibee Mobiles
20. eTouch
21. Fujezone
22. Fly
23. Fortune
24. GEEPEE Mobiles
25. gfone
26. G-Five
27. Haier
28. Hansum Mobiles
29. Hawkman Mobile
30. Hi-Tech
31. Hp
32. HTC
33. I-Tel
34. ICube
35. Intex
36. Ion
37. iNQ
38. Karbonn Mobiles
39. Lava Mobiles
40. Lemon
41. Lexus
42. LG
43. Logitec
44. Magicon
45. Maxwood Mobiles
46. Maxx
47. Melbon
48. Micromax Mobile
49. Motorola
50. Movil
51. Munoth Mobiles
52. Nokia
53. Nelson
54. Olive
55. Onida
56. Orion Mobiles
57. Orpat
58. pagaria
59. Philips
60. Pride Mobiles
61. Philiray
62. Kuantum
63. Quba Mobile
64. Rage
65. Ray
66. Swissvoice India
67. SAGEM
68. Samsung
69. San Mobile
70. Sansui
71. Siemens
72. Simoco
73. Sony Ericsson
74. Spice Telecom
75. Technotouch
76. T-Series
77. Ultra Mobile
78. UNITEL
79. UNIX Mobiles
80. Usha-Lexus
81. Vodafone Essar
82. Videocon
83. Voice
84. VOX
85. Winncom
86. Xcite
87. Zen Mobiles
88. Rk mobile
89. ViP Mobile
90. CAPLIGHT
91. Alcatel
92. Spice
93. MVL
94. Nova mobiles [1]
95. Mobell
96. Akai mobiles
97. AZ Link Anycool mobiles
98. QUBA mobile

See also

• Mobile Telephone Service
• Communications in India