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Richard Branson owned Virgin mobile will now be available in India in collaboration with Tata Teleservices. Virgin Group is launching CDMA handsets in partnership with Tata Teleservices. Virgin Mobile is a brand used by several mobile phone service providers operating in the United Kingdom, India, Australia, Canada, South Africa, the United States and France.

They offering outgoing local calls at 50 paise per minute to any network and users will get a credit of 10 paise for every incoming call that’s more than a minute long. TTSL will sell the Virgin Mobile brand and its services in the country and will pay a royalty for every customer it gets. The CDMA major will launch the services initially across 50 cities (in 17 circles) and will cover over 1,000 cities by the end of the year.

Virgin Mobile is the world’s first mobile virtual network operator (MVNO). it launched in the United Kingdom in 1999. MVNOs are not yet permitted in India. Virgin will not be an MVNO here. Instead, it will be an agent of TTSL and Virgin Mobile-branded services will be available over TTSL’s network.

Source:
http://economictimes.indiatimes.com/articleshow/2055664.cms
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Virgin_Mobile

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