Source: Telecom Lead About the Agency’s LOOK WHO’S TALKING Currently, Aircel owns around 8.44% share of the Indian telecommunications market. Aircel is the telecommunications market leader in Tamil Nadu and has considerable presence in Odisha, Assam and North-East telecom circles.Īs part of recent survey conducted in March 2017, Aircel now has a subscriber base of 90.9 million subscribers.Īircel is now a joint venture between Apollo Hospitals Group of India and Maxis Communications Berhad of Malaysia. Shortly after, It quickly rose to be the current 5 th largest Indian Mobile service provider. It established itself is as the key mobile network provider in the south Indian region of Tamil Nadu. In the last 15 days, after the launch of Nimbuzz, data usage from our users in J&K went up by 25 percent, he added.Īircel also revealed that over 5,000 users have already downloaded Nimbuzz in the past 15 days and buoyed by this, the mobile operator now plans to launch similar packages in Delhi, followed by the rest of the country.Aircel was founded by Chinnakannan Sivasankaran in the year 1999. Jammu & Kashmir is a highly regulated market, where SMS services are unavailable so our focus is on data, Sundeep Talwar, Aircel’s operations head for J&K, said. Aircel is currently only offering this service to prepaid users in Jammu & Kashmir. To use this service a user has to download the Nimbuzz app from a URL sent by Aircel, after which 40MB of data will be transferred to the user s account for a period of 30 days. Also Read - 10 lakh Aircel customers port to VodafoneĪlso Read - More than one lakh Aircel customers registered to join BSNL

After Facebook tied up with Airtel and RCom to offer a free or discounted data plan to access its Facebook Messenger back in February, Aircel has now joined hands with Nimbuzz to provide exclusive packages for free messaging for its subscribers in Jammu & Kashmir (J&K). Also Read - Mobile phone customer base in India reduces by over 58 million in April 2018Īs people turn to free messaging apps like WhatsApp and Facebook Messenger over the ageing SMS format for chatting with their friends, mobile operators are rushing to take advantage of this new trend.

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