Spice achieves India’s largest international roaming network

Our Corporate Bureau
08 April 2003

New Delhi: India’s largest circle cellular operator and Punjab’s leading cellular service provider now has achieved the rare distinction of having India’s largest international roaming network.

With the signing up of the agreement with a GSM cellular operator in Trinidad and Tobago, Spice today became the only operator in India to offer an amazingly huge choice of countries to roam in - 142 countries worldwide. For more information subscribers can either call at toll-free helpline number 9814012345 or log onto www.spiceindia.com.

Spice Punjab offers international roaming in countries like the US, Canada, the UK, Brazil, Mexico, Sweden, Spain, Italy, Switzerland, France, Germany Egypt, Japan, Hong Kong, China, Singapore and Malaysia. The main countries in the Indian subcontinent include Sri Lanka, Bangladesh, Nepal where Spice has entered into a tie-up to offer roaming facility to subscribers.

Says Spice Telecom marketing general manager Swarn Bajaj: “Our objective has always been to offer a full strength network architecture which enables our subscribers to experience maximum mobility. We realise that the need of the hour for our customers is to provide them with easy accessibility with their friends, relatives and offices, even when they are out of the country. With international roaming tie-ups in 141 countries, our endeavour has always been to keep our subscriber connected all the time wherever he may be.”

In addition to international roaming tie-ups with over 244 international operators present in 142 countries, Spice has roaming tie-ups with all the 49 cellular operators present across 21 states in India. Recently Spice Telecom joined hands with BPL Mobile, Escotel and RPG Cellular to form the MobileFirst alliance to give unprecedented benefits to its subscribers.

With a contiguous pan-India footprint, the MobileFirst alliance will offer enhanced value across tariffs, roaming, long-distance calling and new-generation technology and services to its 3 million subscribers across 700 towns in the country.