MTS offers zero paisa plan

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NEW DELHI, India, Feb 09, 2012: MTS, a part of Sistema Shyam TeleServices Limited (SSTL), offered a zero paisa plan to retain its customers on Wednesday, according to reports.

“MTS customers will now be able to make unlimited MTS to MTS local and national calls at a rate as low as zero paisa. Additionally, customers availing Super Zero can also enjoy free local and national SMSs,” reads a company statement.

“Super Zero comes with the choice of daily, weekly and monthly offerings,” added the statement.

MTS commands a little over 15 million customers in India. It has investments standing at over $2.5 billion.

Older telecom companies has been busy luring the subscribers of telecom firms affected by the cancellation of 2G licenses by a recent Supreme Court verdict.

The Supreme Court had quashed all 122 telecom licences issued during 2008. Sistema Shyam Teleservices, a JV between Sistema of Russia and the Shyam Group of India, had 21 licences.

The new MTS plan offers unlimited local and national calling and 200 local and national SMSs on the same network for Rs.17 for one day. The MTS one-month plan offers 240,000 seconds of local calling and 60,000 seconds of national calling along with 200 local and national SMSs on the same network for Rs.147.

MTS India chief marketing and sales officer Leonid Musatov said: “We have specially designed MTS Super Zero to empower our customers with the freedom to talk more and stay connected with their friends and business associates. I am confident that both our new and existing customers will find our Super Zero initiative extremely exciting as it enables them to make calls at as low as zero paisa.”

It’s reported that the Russian Communications Minister Igor Shchyogolev will visit India to convey his country’s concern over investments in SSTL.
While Sistema accounts for a tad 56.68 per cent stake in the venture, the Russian government holds 17.14 per cent. Of the rest, Shyam Group owns a 23.98 per cent share and the remaining 2.2 percent shares are publicly owned.