3G PACT BETWEEN VODOFONE, AIRTEL AND IDEA

The three of the India's biggest mobile communication networks have joined hand to provide its consumers a great experience of its 3G services since the all these service providers doesn't have its 3G service all over country so these networks when joined will provide a great banner for the 3G service.

It is an effort to reduce the cost of providing effective 3G service to its consumers. The three will now use each other’s networks through inter and intra-circle roaming arrangements where they do not have licences. “Vodafone has entered into a bilateral roaming agreement, both inter and intra-circle, with Idea and Airtel to provide 3G services to our customers in the circles where we have not built our own 3G network, in order to bring a pan-India experience of 3G services to our customers,” this was said by a spokes person from vodofone.

One of the officials said that “Bharti Airtel has already started sharing networks for 3G services with each other. For example they are not having 3G network in Gujarat and have started using Idea’s network to provide service in that area." In india there 22 telecom circles and Airtel, Aircel, Reliance have 3G spectrum licence in 13 of them and Vodofone has for 10 circles while Idea and TATA have in 9 circles. The combining of networks for offering cost effective pan india 3G service is a great leap in indian telecommunication industry.

Vodafone has started 3G services in Andhra Pradesh and Kerala through an agreement with Idea. Uttar Pradesh (West) is another circle where Vodafone plans to introduce similar services through Bharti Airtel’s network. Similarly, Bharti Airtel has entered into intra-circle roaming agreements to share Idea’s 3G network in Gujarat. Meanwhile dea has entered into an intra-circle roaming arrangement with Vodafone for introducing 3G services in Delhi and Kolkata circles while Bharti Airtel will partner Idea in providing 3G services in Bangalore and Mysore. what ever it is, if some thing helps us then its a great work to be done and i support it and hope gave you guys some good news :)............