Chennai:
Chennai-based mobile services provider, Aircel Limited, offering mobile telephony
in Tamil Nadu, has chosen Sybase 365 to offer international short message service
for its over four million subscribers. Aircel
is a subsidiary of Maxis Communications, Berhad, Malaysia and Sybase 365 is a
subsidiary of Sybase Inc, US. According
to KVP Baskar, CEO (South) Aircel, the deal will enable us to offer better value
to our subscribers while driving SMS traffic in Tamil Nadu. With
the addition of Aircel, Sybase 365 now provides two-way interoperability services
in South Asia. Aircel
says it is India''s fifth largest GSM mobile service provider with
a subscriber base of over 6.41 million (over 4 million in Chennai & Tamil
Nadu) and the fastest growing mobile operator in the country. It is present in
9 telecom circles and has licences for the remaining 14 of the 23 telecom circles
in the country.
|