Aizawl, Nov 07 (UNI) India's mobile phone giant Reliance Telecom Limited (RTL) has planned to expand its network on a massive scale across NE states and include Mizoram by this year end.
Announcing the plans, RTL sources here said that there were ambitious plans to roll out GSM services in the entire Northeast and by the middle of the third quarter of this financial year, RTL plans to launch services in close to 275 new towns and cities of the region.
It has also undertaken a massive capacity expansion exercise in existing locations with plans to set up a large number of base transreceiver stations (BTS), they said.
''RTL would also install new mobile switch centre (MSC) with latest features like all 3G services, IN platform, GPRS and Edge to cater to the large network requirement in the region,'' the officials stated.
RTL has already spread its operations in Manipur, Nagaland, Tripura, Assam and Meghalaya while survey work had been completed in Arunachal Pradesh and Mizoram for rolling out the services by December.
The cities and towns to have RTL services soon are Itanagar, Naharlagun, Pasighat, Roing and Tezu in Arunachal Pradesh and Kolasib, Aizawl, Champhai, Lunglei and Saiha in Mizoram.
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Announcing the plans, RTL sources here said that there were ambitious plans to roll out GSM services in the entire Northeast and by the middle of the third quarter of this financial year, RTL plans to launch services in close to 275 new towns and cities of the region.
It has also undertaken a massive capacity expansion exercise in existing locations with plans to set up a large number of base transreceiver stations (BTS), they said.
''RTL would also install new mobile switch centre (MSC) with latest features like all 3G services, IN platform, GPRS and Edge to cater to the large network requirement in the region,'' the officials stated.
RTL has already spread its operations in Manipur, Nagaland, Tripura, Assam and Meghalaya while survey work had been completed in Arunachal Pradesh and Mizoram for rolling out the services by December.
The cities and towns to have RTL services soon are Itanagar, Naharlagun, Pasighat, Roing and Tezu in Arunachal Pradesh and Kolasib, Aizawl, Champhai, Lunglei and Saiha in Mizoram.
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