Idea Cellular, an Aditya Birla Group company, is planning to launch its GSM service in Chennai soon, company officials announced. The telecom operator has already launched its services in Coimbatore, Madurai and other cities in Tamil Nadu.
It has operations in four southern states – Karnataka, Kerala, Andhra Pradesh and Tamil Nadu. While the company acquired telecom operator Spice in Karnataka, it rolled out services in Kerala and Andhra Pradesh.
The southern region ranks fourth in the company’s overall subscriber base. Out of the 40 million subscribers the company has 25% from this region.
Unitech, is planning to launch mobile services jointly with Norway’s Telenor in the December quarter of this year.