Aircel

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Aircel was the largest mobile phone service provider in Tamil Nadu, India, however, it has been recently been overtaken by Airtel and Vodafone with better service and in terms of Number of Connections provided.

It offers both prepaid and postpaid GSM cellular phone coverage throughout Tamil Nadu, Assam, NE States, Orissa, West Bengal, J&K, Bihar & HP. It offers only the Basic phone service, and doesnt offer any Data services.

Aircel, now part of Maxis Communications Berhad, Malaysia, is India’s seventh largest GSM mobile service provider with a subscriber base of over 6.2 million (over 4 million in Chennai & Tamil Nadu alone) and the fastest growing mobile operator in the country. As on date, Aircel is present in 9 telecom circles (Assam, Bihar, Chennai, Himachal Pradesh, Jammu & Kashmir, North East, Orissa, Tamil Nadu and West Bengal) and with licences secured for the remaining 14 of the 23 telecom circles, the company is on track to become a pan-India operator. Additionally, Aircel has also obtained the nod from Department of Telecommunications (DoT) to provide International Long Distance (ILD) and National Long Distance (NLD) telephony services.

Aircel Business Solutions (ABS), part of Aircel, is headquartered in Chennai and is an ISO 9000 certified company. ABS is a registered member of WiMAX forum – both in the Indian and International Chapters. ABS’ product range includes a host of cutting-edge enterprise solutions such as Multi Protocol Label Switching Virtual Private Networks (MPLS VPNs), Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP) and Managed Video Services on wireless platform including WiMAX.