MONTREAL-Bell Canada International Inc., with its Indian partner, the Tata Group, launched the first mobile telephony network in Andhra Pradesh, India. The company, operating under the name Tata Communications, has licenses to serve nearly 70 million residents, 850 large-scale and 100,000 small businesses, the company said.
Richard French, chief executive officer of Tata Communications, said the company will begin offering services including long distance in the next three weeks.
Election gets help from Cellular One
SAN FRANCISCO-Cellular One will lend a hand in tomorrow’s election in the San Francisco Bay area. The company is loaning 35 wireless telephones to the San Francisco Department of Elections to be used to oversee 652 polling places.
“Because many polling places are in garages or private residences or atriums of larger buildings, poll workers frequently do not have access to a phone,” said Evonne Zamora, of the Department of Elections. “The wireless phones will help us respond immediately to all of the predictably unpredictable crises such as technical hiccups, shortage of supplies or poll workers who get sick.”
CTS provides tools to fight fraudsters
SEATTLE-Cellular Technical Services Co. Inc. will provide its Blackbird Platform and PreTect fraud prevention system to Ameritech Cellular Services for use in its markets. According to a master agreement, Ameritech also will participate in CTS’ No Clone Zone fraud prevention service.
“Ameritech’s participation in our No Clone Zone service means that their cellular customers will be protected from cloning fraud both in their home market and when they roam in the major markets on the east and west coasts,” said Bob Dahut, president of CTS.
