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Friday, November 23, 2012

Aircel-Airtel-Vodafone Tug-of- war in Tamil Nadu


Bharti Airtel snapped its SMS connectivity with Aircel on Nov 9,2012.

On Thursday Nov 22,2012, Vodafone severed its SMS connectivity with Aircel.

Nearly three-fourths of Tamil Nadu’s over five crore cellular phone users have been made pawns in a tug-of- war involving the top three mobile service providers over settlement of inter-connection usage charges for short messaging service (SMS)

Combined, the three service providers account for close to 76% of the market share in the State of TN
Aircel network issued a text advisory to its subscribers on Thursday Nov 22,2012 stating: “SMS to Vodafone and Airtel numbers has been blocked by Vodafone and Airtel. We are trying to resolve this issue on priority. Inconvenience regretted.”

Combined, the 3 service providers account for close to 76% of the market share in the State of TN

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