Mobile phone companies of India

The Mobile phone industry in India is covered in this article. Mobile phones are usually called "mobile phones" or "cell phones" in India.

History

• The first mobile phone was launched in India during 1990s.^{[citation needed]}
• The first mobile phone company was Nokia.^{[citation needed]}
• First Mobile service provider was Modi Groups in 1995 and started in Kolkata, somewhere it was signed that mobile service provider was launched in 1994.^{[citation needed]}

Mobile phone service operators

• Aircel

Aircel, headquartered in New Delhi, India has absorbed Cingular Wireless, and offers 2G service using GSM technology and 3G service using UMTS technology.

• Airtel

Airtel, with its head offices in both Mumbai and Berhampur, India provides 2G service using GSM and 3G service using UMTS/HSPA technology

• BSNL

BSNL, headquartered in New Delhi, is a public listed company and is state-owned. It offers 2G service using GSM and 3G service using U--Munnatiger (talk) 16:27, 10 November 2011 (UTC)MTS. It was the first service provider to introduce 3G services in India.

• MTNL

MTNL, headquartered in Mumbai is a public listed company and is state-owned and offers 2G service using CDMA and 3G service using GSM.

• Idea Cellular

Idea Cellular, headquartered in Mumbai, has absorbed Cingular Wireless, and offers 2G service using GSM technology and 3G service using UMTS technology.

• Ping Mobile
• Tata Indicom

Tata Indicom, with its head offices in both Navi Mumbai provides 2G service using cdmaOne and 3G service using CDMA2000 technology.

• Tata DoCoMo

Tata DoCoMo is joint venture company of Tata Teleservices and NTT DoCoMo

• Reliance Communications

Reliance Communications, with its head offices in Navi Mumbai, Maharashtra provides CMDA 2G service using cdmaOne and CDMA 3G service using CDMA2000 EVDO technology. It also provides GSM 2G services & 3G GSM HSDPA Services.

• Loop Mobile India (Formerly BPL Mobile)

Loop Mobile India, is a mobile phone service provider in Mumbai, Maharashtra, India

• Emirates Telecommunications Corporation (formerly SWAN Telecom)

In 2009 Etisalat has announced that its Indian unit, erstwhile Swan Telecom (owned by Dynamix Balwas Realty and Reliance Communications),[34] headquartered in Mumbai, is renamed to Etisalat DB Telecom India Pvt. Ltd Telecom Renamed Etisalat Telecom India Pvt. Ltd. The business unit has been awarded Unified Services Access License in 15 circles - Andhra Pradesh, Delhi, Gujarat, Haryana, Karnataka, Kerala, Maharashtra, Mumbai, Punjab, Rajasthan, Tamil Nadu (including Chennai), Uttar Pradesh (East), Uttar Pradesh (West), Madhya Pradesh and Bihar. In April 2010 Etisalat began signal testing in Chennai [IND 922], Delhi & NCR [IND 913], Maharashtra & Goa [IND 919], Mumbai [IND 916] and Gujarat[IND 914]. In May 2010, Etisalat was in talks to buy 25% stake in Reliance Communications, but the deal was not finalised.

In 2010, following the $39 billion 2G spectrum scam, Etisalat DB, the Indian subsidiary of the company, was stopped from buying a stake in a Chennai-based company due to objections raised by the India's home ministry(MHA). Etisalat DB was not allowed to buy back the 5.27 per cent stake held by Chennai-based Genex Exim Ventures since the home ministry raised objections based largely on security concerns. The MHA had pointed out four issues that needed to be resolved before allowing the company to come into Etisalat DB, a company that got scarce 2G spectrum at allegedly throwaway prices, First, vice-chairman Shahid Balwa should not be involved in the operations of the company in any capacity, because of his connections with underworld don Dawood Ibrahim,[36] second, the MHA raised objections about the commercial relationship between the Dubai-based Etisalat Group and China’s Huawei. The MHA suspects, Huawei has links with China’s People’s Liberation Army — the country’s military organisation of all land, sea, strategic missile and air forces — and has the capacity to manipulate equipment supply, third, it raised objections about Etisalat’s presence in Pakistan and it's connection with Pakistan's intelligence agency ISI. Etisalat owns a 26% stake in Pakistan Telecommunications and has a subscriber base of 3 million in Afghanistan and fourth, the MHA has also expressed concerns about the telecom surveillance software Etisalat had used in a Blackberry service it had introduced in the UAE and recommended that the company should not be allowed to offer Blackberry services in India

• Virgin Mobile CDMA
• Vodafone Essar (Formerly Hutchison Essar/Hutch Orange/Hutch Pink)
• Videocon Mobile Service (Formerly Datacom Solutions)
• Uninor
• MTS India
• S Tel
• Virgin Mobile GSM
• Spice Telecom

Handset Maker Companies of India

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1. X Electron
2. CAPLIGHT
3. Airnet
4. Ajanta Mobile
5. Anconn Mobile
6. Airphone
7. AROMA Mobiles
8. [[ .com Asiatelco]
9. BlackBerry
10. BLEU
11. Beetel
12. BPL Group
13. Byond tech
14. Colors mobile
15. celkon
16. Daya
17. Dell
18. Digibee Mobiles
19. eTouch
20. Fujezone
21. Fly
22. Fortune
23. GEEPEE Mobiles
24. gfone
25. G-Five
26. Haier
27. Hansum Mobiles
28. Hawkman Mobile
29. Hi-Tech
30. HTC
31. I-Tel
32. ICube
33. Intex
34. Ion
35. iNQ
36. Karbonn Mobiles
37. Lava Mobiles
38. Lemon
39. Lexus
40. LG
41. Logitec
42. Magicon
43. Maxwood Mobiles
44. Maxx
45. Melbon
46. Micromax Mobile
47. Motorola
48. Movil
49. Munoth Mobiles
50. Nokia
51. Nelson
52. Olive
53. Onida
54. Orion Mobiles
55. Orpat
56. pagaria
57. Philips
58. Pride Mobiles
59. Philiray
60. Kuantum
61. Quba Mobile
62. Rage
63. Ray
64. Swissvoice India
65. SAGEM
66. Samsung
67. San Mobile
68. Sansui
69. Siemens
70. Simoco
71. Sony Ericsson
72. Spice Telecom
73. Technotouch
74. T-Series
75. Ultra Mobile
76. UNITEL
77. UNIX Mobiles
78. Usha-Lexus
79. Vodafone Essar
80. Videocon
81. Voice
82. VOX
83. Winncom
84. Xcite
85. Zen Mobiles
86. Rk mobile
87. ViP Mobile
88. CAPLIGHT
89. Alcatel
90. Spice
91. MVL
92. Nova mobiles [1]
93. Mobell
94. Akai mobiles
95. AZ Link Anycool mobiles

See also

• Mobile Telephone Service
• Communications in India