Tata DoCoMo to unveil GSM services by month-end

Tata Teleservices said that it would launch mobile services on the popular GSM platform by end-June under the Tata DoCoMo brand. Tata Teleservices, in which Japan’s NTT DoCoMo has a 26% stake, has already invested close to US$2bn to roll out a pan-India GSM network. The CDMA operator said it plans to launch commercial services on the GSM platform in a phased manner, starting with South India, followed by western and northern regions. "We expect to complete our pan-India rollout by the end of this year," Tata Teleservices’ president for GSM operations Deepak Gulati said. Currently, TTSL is India’s sixth-largest mobile operator with 35.7 million subscribers as of end-April on the CDMA platform. Close to 70% of the country’s 403-million mobile subscribers use the GSM platform.