Videocon Telecom
| File:Videocon Telecom logo.gif | |
| Limited | |
| Industry | Telecommunications |
| Founded | 2008 |
| Headquarters | Gurgaon, Haryana, India |
| Products | Mobile Telecommunication |
| Parent | Videocon Industries |
| Slogan | Pakdo Life Ka Har Signal |
| Website | www |
Videocon Telecom, formerly Videocon Mobile Services, was an Indian cellular service provider that offered GSM mobile services in India. The company was a subsidiary of Videocon Industries, and was headquartered at Gurgaon, Haryana.[1] At its peak, Videocon held licences to provide mobile services in 18 out of 22 telecom circles of India. However, Videocon launched commercial services only in 11 out of the 18 circles it held licences in. Following the 2G spectrum scam, the Supreme Court cancelled 122 licences issued by the Indian Government in 2008, including 21 licences belonging to Videocon. In the 2012 spectrum auction, Videocon won back licences in 6 circles.[2]
Contents
Network Coverage
Videocon Telecom Mobile service was available in the following circles.
| State | 2G |
|---|---|
| Bihar & Jharkhand |  |
| Uttar Pradesh (East) | |
| Haryana | |
| Madhya Pradesh & Chhattisgarh | |
| Punjab | |
Rebranding
The company was known as Videocon Mobile Services, until it changed its logo and rebranded to Videocon Telecom on 19 September 2013.[3][4] It appointed Punjabi singer Gippy Grewal as its Brand Ambassador.
Proposed launch of 4G Services
Videocon planned to launch 4G services over 1800MHz band which the company secured in the November auction in Jharkhand, Bihar, West and East Uttar Pradesh, Gujarat, Haryana, Chhattisgarh and Madhya Pradesh. Videocon won liberalised spectrums in the auction and can offer services over the 1800 MHz band using any technology.[5] Videocon will use LTE-FDD technology to roll out 4G on 1800 MHz band. It should be noted that globally LTE-FDD 1800 is getting more importance across the globe, more than 30% of LTE roll outs are on this band. So Videocon can leverage the advantages of LTE-FDD on 1800 MHz, as the ecosystem including devices are quite mature compared to other Indian companies. As Videocon has only 5 MHz spectrum for both 2G and 4G, the company plans to auto-allocation of spectrum for 4G during peak and off-peak hours. In peak hours Videocon can provide up to 9 Mbit/s over its upcoming LTE network and during off-peak hours speed may go up to 21Mbit/s.[5]
Competitors
Videocon Telecom competed with 10 other mobile operators in India. They are Airtel, Aircel, BSNL, MTNL, MTS, Reliance Communications, Tata DoCoMo, Idea, Uninor and Vodafone.[citation needed]
References
- ↑ http://www.videocontelecom.com/contactus.html
- ↑ Videocon To Shut Down GSM Operations in 11 Circles Including Mumbai, Asks Customers To Port Out Before 18 January TelecomTalk.info
- ↑ http://www.financialexpress.com/news/videocon-mobile-services-is-now-videocon-telecom/1171374
- ↑ http://www.business-standard.com/article/companies/videocon-mobile-services-rebranded-as-videocon-telecom-113091900824_1.html
- ↑ 5.0 5.1 Videocon Targeting July-2013 to Launch 4G-LTE Services TelecomTalk.info
External links
| Wireless |
|
||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Fixed line and Broadband | |||||||
| DTH | |||||||
- Use Indian English from June 2013
- All Wikipedia articles written in Indian English
- Pages with broken file links
- Pages using infobox company with unsupported parameters
- Articles with unsourced statements from August 2015
- Official website not in Wikidata
- Companies based in Mumbai
- Telecommunications companies of India
- Mobile phone companies of India
- Companies established in 2010
