Handygo, Uninor launches Wellness World

Uninor subscribers can get up to date information regarding heart care, women's health, diet and nutrition, HIV/STDs, pain management, sexual health, stress, love, relationship and adolescent issues.

Handygo Technologies, a provider of VAS solutions, and Uninor announced the launch of 'Wellness World', a unique health tool for Indian customers. 

Available on both IVR (Interactive Voice Response) and SMS platforms, it aims to provide daily information to Uninor's subscribers on health related issues. The subscribers can get up to date information regarding heart care, women's health, diet and nutrition, HIV/STDs, pain management, sexual health, stress, love, relationship and adolescent issues. 

Uninor launches 1 paisa/sec ISD plan for Karnataka users

Uninor has also introduced an additional STV 22 ISD pack that offers the same ISD call rates to customers with 30 days validity but without talktime.

Uninor has launched attractive ISD plans, covering 35 countries, for its customers in the Karnataka circle, which goes to as low as one paisa per second. 

The 111 ISD pack of Uninor offers a talk time of Rs 100 with 30 days validity. 

Under the plan, Uninor customers can make calls to their families and friends in the USA, Canada, China, UK fixed telephony, Hong Kong and Singapore for as low as one paisa per second. 

While for Bangladesh, Malaysia, Thailand, Greece fixed telephony, Spain fixed telephony, Romania fixed telephony and Russia fixed telephony, the call rate is four paisa per second. 

Uninor announces cheap call rate plans for Mumbai

Uninor Mumbai subscribers can now make local calls to other Uninor numbers for as low as 2 paisa per min.

Telecom service provider Uninor has announced an attractive offer for its Mumbai customers which will extend massive discounts in the range of 85 to 96 per cent on local Uninor to Uninor calls.

The discount will keep changing throughout the day on the basis of location and time. The available discount on a particular place and time would flash on the user's phone screen.

This also means that depending on discounts available during the day, Uninor customers can make local calls for as low as 2 paisa per minute.

Discounts on local Uninor to Uninor calls will be available as default, to existing as well as new subscribers of the Dynamic Pricing (DP) plan -- without any other special recharge. Subscribers who are currently not on the DP plan or those who wish to extend the benefit of their DP plan can recharge with the existing Rs 26 Special Tariff Voucher (STV) which offers three months Dynamic Pricing benefits. Discounts on calls made to subscribers on other networks will continue to range from 5 per cent to 60 per cent.

Speaking about the product, Upanga Dutta, chief marketing officer, Mumbai Circle, Uninor, said, "It's a sensible, cost effective product that gives big benefits to our customers at a minimal cost. Our commitment continues to be towards creating value for money products that make sense to our customers, and in the future too we will remain committed."

Uninor is owned by the Norway based Telenor group which is the world's 6th largest mobile services provider and India's second largest diversified real estate major Unitech.

Uninor launches two recharge vouchers in Bihar, Jharkhand (India)

Uninor has introduced two recharge vouchers STV 21 and STV 41 for its customers in Bihar and Jharkhand.

Customers can avail free STD minutes from Uninor to any network across the country. STV 21 offers 50 free STD minutes with a validity of fifteen days and STV 41 offers 100 free STD minutes with a validity of 30 days respectively.

These free STD minutes are valid on calls made from Uninor to any other telecommunication network across the country.

Uninor customers can avail of these STD recharge vouchers by walking into any of the 101 functional Uninor brand stores and over 30,000 retail outlets spread across Bihar and Jharkhand.

The ‘Carry Forward’ option allows a Uninor customer to carry forward their unused free STD minutes on their next recharge with STV 21 or STV 41 within the validity period.

If a customer has recharged with STV 21 on 1 April, he received 50 STD minutes with validity till 15 April.

If the customer recharges again with 21 or 41 on or before 15 April then all unused minutes will be carry forwarded, else the same will be forfeited.

Uninor plans rollout in 2 more northern circles-Report

Mobile phone company Uninor, majority owned by Norway's Telenor, which had put its expansion plans on hold as it was struggling with operations in Karnataka and Kerala, plans to launch services in two more northern circles in 2011, managing director Sigve Brekke told ET . Uninor on Wednesday reported an operating loss of $235 million on revenues of $103 million in the January-March period.

"We need to gradually bring down costs in the second half of the year (2011)," Brekke said. Globally, Telenor said, its profits more than doubled to 3 billion Norwegian Krone (around 2,536.8 crore) in the first quarter of 2011 boosted by Asian operations . India accounted for about 60% of the nine million new customers Telenor added globally during the three months ended March 2011.

Uninor had about 17.4 million customers in India as of March 2011. The company said it had added 1,100 new towers taking its total to 24,300. In India, Uninor's monthly average revenue per user is about $2.3 (. 102), compared with larger peers which have average revenue of around . 200. As the company begins to leverage economies of scale, Uninor expects its average revenue to improve. Brekke said Uninor's objective is to break even by the end of next year. Telenor entered India in 2009 when it bought a controlling stake in Unitech Wireless. Unitech Wireless is one of the companies that have been chargesheeted by the CBI in the 2G spectrum scam. 

Uninor set to paint AP Blue with 90 branded stores by June

At present, 65 'Branded stores' that provide all round brand experience and customer service in AP; Innovates with small and large sized retail presence to address customer needs in towns of varied sizes

Hyderabad, Andhra Pradesh, May 3, 2011 / Consolidating its presence in the state, Uninor today shared plans for further retail expansion in AP. The GSM provider which has established its presence across 23 districts, 500 towns and 2000 villages in the state said that they would be taking the number to 90 stores by June 2011. Currently, there are 65 such stores across the State.

These branded stores serve as a one stop service point for existing and prospective Uninor customers across majority of District Headquarters and Taluk Headquarter in AP and reinforces Uninor's commitment to extend its reach and services to both urban and rural customers.

These Uninor stores aim at providing all round brand experience about Uninor's offers and services to its customers. Customers can walk into these stores and buy anything from a Sim Card, Recharge coupon and even Handsets/Accessories, as well as for registering complaints and enquiring about VAS products.

Speaking on the announcement of Uninor's expansion plans, Mr. Satish Kumar Kannan, Business Head - AP Circle, Uninor said, "Uninor has always been committed to extend its reach and services to our customers whether they are settled in the rural areas or the bigger cities of the state. At present, we have 65 uninor branded stores across 3 different innovative retail formats and we look forward to a 90 store footprint by June end. We want to provide the same level of brand experience and customer service to our users, their location notwithstanding; this is our promise to our customers no matter whether they visit a Uninor franchisee or a company owned Outlet. Customers are our top priority and that's a fact that remains."

Built on a low cost model, the Franchisee Express outlets are based on an innovative retail format that reach out to towns in AP with a population of less than 1 lakh. Similar to the company outlets and franchisee outlets, the franchisee express outlets as well aim to provide an all round brand experience and an umbrella of Uninor's offers and services to its customers.

Mobile phone subscribers in India rises to 811.59 million

India’s mobile phone subscribers base has touched 811.59 million in March with the addition of 20.21 million connections, official data shows.

According to the Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (TRAI), the wireless user base grew 2.55 percent, from 791.38 million in February.

While the share of urban subscribers declined to 66.30 percent from 66.36 percent, the share of rural subscribers increased from 33.64 percent to 33.70 percent, the report said Friday.

With this, the total number of telephone subscriber base touched 846.32 million, registering a growth of 2.43 percent.

Overall teledensity in India reached 70.89.

However, according to the report, of the total 811.59 million wireless subscribers in March, only 573.97 million subscribers were active subscribers on the date of peak visitor location register (VLR).

VLR is a temporary database of the subscribers who have roamed into the particular area, which it serves. Each base station in the network is served by exactly one VLR, hence a subscriber cannot be present in more than one VLR at a time.

The growth in this category was led by Vodafone, which added 3.65 million users to take its subscriber base to 134.57 million users.

Reliance Communications followed next with an addition of 3.54 million new subscribers, taking its subscriber base to 135.72 million.

Telecom giant Bharti airtel added 3.2 million subscribers to take its total number of customers to 162.2 million.

Idea Cellular added 2.7 million subscribers, increasing its subscribers count to 89.5 million while Uninor added 1.21 million subscribers to have 22.79 million subscribers.

According to the data, the broadband subscriber base grew 3.51 percent from 11.47 million in February to 11.87 million in March 2011. However, the wireline segment declined marginally from 34.87 million in February to 34.73 million at the end of March.