New Delhi: Bharti Global – with the launch of 3G mobile services in Seychelles – has become the first Indian company to launch the next generation services overseas.
Bharti has been has been providing telecom services in Seychelles since 1998 under the Airtel brand, where it operates through its subsidiary Telecom Seychelles.
The Company has made significant investments for rolling out state-of-the-art 3G services in the Indian Ocean country.
Telecom Seychelles is also the first telecom operator to launch 3G services in the island nation.
"This is a proud moment for Bharti and the Indian telecom industry. This launch demonstrates that Indian telecom industry is ready to introduce world-class 3G services," said Bharti Enterprises Chairman & Group Managing Director Sunil Bharti Mittal as quoted by PTI.
"Our 3G operations in Seychelles will provide us with valuable experience, which will be extremely beneficial for rollout of our 3G services in India."
An extensive programme was initiated to upgrade the existing Airtel network in Seychelles. The upgrade included commissioning of Ericsson's new MSC/Media gateway/BSC/RNC/IN and new 3G Node B's.
All existing RBS 200 base stations with the latest 2206 BTSs have been enabled with EDGE to give the island nation a robust and futuristic telecom infrastructure.
Customers in Seychelles will get access to a host of 3G services on the Airtel network, including high speed web navigation - both on mobile through WAP and on laptop through Airtel 3G data card, Video calls – see and talk to each other on 3G handsets that have two cameras, sending and receiving large MMS messages, among other benefits.
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