Videocon Telecom mobile network service review

Videocon Telecom

Videocon Mobile Service is closed in India, hence may not be applicable at this Point !

Videocon Telecom is an Indian Cellular service provider, it offers GSM mobile service in India. Videocon telecommunication is owned by Videocon Group headquartered in Mumbai with 3.24 million subscribers at the end of 2013. It provides GSM, GPRS and EDGE technology for the subscribers. The company is a subsidiary of Videocon Industries, and is headquartered at Gurgaon,Haryana. 

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. In 2008, 122 licences was cancelled by the 2G spectrum scam. After that, Videocon won back licences in 6 circles in 2012. The Market Share is 0.64% in the year of September 2014.

It provides postpaid, prepaid and roaming services. In prepaid Services it provides Get Going, Base Tariff Plan, Special Tariff Vouchers, Combo Vouchers, Paper Recharge, Special Top Ups, Top Ups, SMS Tariff Vouchers, Plan Vouchers, SUK 11. Also it offers many call traiff plans like voice calls, Ratecutter and Local, STD calls etc.

Videocon Telecom also provides some Value added services such as, Roaming, CRBT, Videocon Music, Music Downloads, Mobile DATA, Videocon Internet, Mobile Banking, Short codes and special characters.
Videocon Telecom competes with 10 other mobile operators in India including Airtel, Aircel, BSNL, MTNL, MTS, Reliance Communications, Tata DoCoMo, Idea,Uninor and Vodafone.
Videocon Telecom plans to invest Rs 1,200 crore over three years on launch of 4G services in three circles. The services will be launched in Uttar Pradesh (East), Uttar Pradesh (West) and Bihar across 29 cities, according to a company statement.It will roll out 4G services in six cities in phase 1, 12 cities in phase 2 and another 11 cities in phase 3. The company is working closely with  their consulting partner (Deloitte) and technology partner (Huawei) in its existing operations.
Videocon Telecom holds 5Mhz liberalized spectrum in the 1800 MHz band in these circles plans to utilize the entire spectrum for rollout of 4G LTE services in selected cities and offer voice on overlay network in these key cities.

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