India Telecom

March 3, 2003
ITI releases large memory SIMs for BSNL

BANGALORE -- Indian Telephone Industries (ITI), India's telecom major, has recently released large memory 32 kilobytes SIM cards with the latest technology for BSNL's 'Cellone' mobile cellular services. The cards have wireless Internet browser WIB 1.2, SIM tool kit menu and over-the- air-update features. The SIM has large storage capacity for more customer data.

Enhanced 'Cellone' menu provides a variety of information-based services, including a chance to define the customer's own menu. BSNL has provision to update the cards even when the customer is using those cards. With the supply of SIM cards from ITI, 'Cellone' customers in Maharastra, Gujrat and Madhya Pradesh will be the beneficiaries. ITI will be supplying eight lakh such cards within two months.

Having repositioned itself as a total solutions provider ITI has, in a very short period of time, shown its prowess in building GSM mobile cellular infrastructure as well as WLL for village public telephones (VPT) programs catering to the demands of country's major operators. It has set up a facility at Palakkad to manufacture SIM cards in collaboration with Incard of Italy with an initial annual capacity of 2 million cards. ITI plans to expand the capacity to 10 million per annum. So far, the unit has supplied 1.5 million units.

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