YEAR
EVENTS
2001 - Mr. Vinod Shukla, Director has resigned and Mr Pradeep Kaul
has been appointed
in his place.
2002-Hughes Tele.com crosses 150000 live customer lines.
-Hughes Tele confirms appointment of G Varghese as President & CEO.
-Hughes Tele.com India Ltd has informed that the Board has appointed
Mr Jay Dehejia as a Director of the Company. Mr Dehejia has also been
appointed as a member of the Audit Committee and Employees Stock
Option Plan Compensation Committee. Mr Jay Dehejia is an Independent
Director for the purpose of Clause 49 of the Listing
Agreement.Further, the Board of Directors has at its meeting held
today appointed Mr Paul W Cheng as an Alternate Director to Mr Jay
Dehejia.
-Hughes Network Systems, a shareholder of Hughes Tele.com (India) Ltd
(HTIL), and Tata Industries Ltd on April 23, 2002 signed a Memorandum
of Understanding to discuss various possibilities for entering into a
transaction with respect to the investment of the HTIL sponsors in
HTIL.
-Hughes Tele.com India Ltd has informed the Board of Directors of the
Company has accepted Mr Sett's resignation at its meeting held on July
16, 2002. Mr Vivek Sett will however continue as the Company's Chief
Financial Officer.
-Hughes Tele.Com (India) Limited has informed the Exchange about the
Change in Board of Directors as follows : 1.) M/s. Pramod Mittal,
Pradman Kaul, Jack Shaw, Francis X Frantz, Vinod K Mittal, James
Lucchese, Pradeep Kaul, Jaykumar Dehejia & Vijay dhar have resigned
from the office of the Director of the Company w.e.f December 6,
2002. Consequent to the above said resignations, M/s. Arun Kumar
(alternate to Mr. Jack Shaw). Sanjay Chaudhary (alternate to Mr.
Francis X. Frantz), Pranav Roach (alternate to James Lucchese),
Partho Banerjee (Alternate to pradeep Kaul), Paul W Cheng (Alternate
to Jaykumar Dehejia),John-Michael Lind (Alternate to Pramod Mittal)
have also ceased to be alternate Directors w.e.f. December 6, 2002.
2.) Dr. J J irani, Mr. S Ramakrishnan, Mr. Ishaat Hussain, Mr. R
Gopalakrishnan, Mr. Kishor Chaukar, Mr. Firdose Vandrevala, Mr. N.S.
Ramachandran & Mr. Pradman Kaul have been appointed as Directors of
the Company w.e.f. December 6, 2002. The Board will shortly be
expanded to include one more director. The above changes have been
approved at the meeting of the Board of Directors of the Company held
on December 6, 2002.
2003
-Hughes Tele.com, telephony services provider of Maharashtra has been
officially renamed
as Tata Teleservices (Maharashtra) ltd.
-Tata Teleservices (Maharashtra) intensified its focus on rest of
Maharashtra (besides
Mumbai).
-TTSL , the Private basic telecom services operator has launched its
Voice Mail Services(VMS).
-Tata Teleservices has tied up with Tier 1 internet service provider
n-Longue Communications
to set up 400 telephone and internet Kiosks in rural TamilNadu.
-TTSL is re-evaluating its decision to expand its public Call Offices
(PCO's) and Cyber Cafe's
across the country under the Tata Indicom Umbrella.
-Trai soughts out for clarrification on tariffs from WLL Player-Tata
Teleservices, eventhough
the company has maintained that its WLL tariffs have not been put on
hold.
-Tata Teleservices ltd and Dishnet DSL Ltd have tied up for sharing
of infrastructure
and a co-location agreement across the country.
-Tata Teleservices has slashed its WLL STD rates to Rs.1.90 per
minute for calls beyond
500kms..
-GTL and Tata Teleservices have been picked up by Andhra Pradesh
Government
to manage the information assets created by the state as part of its
e-governance initiatives.
-TTSL hass received clearance from TN government for setting up an
Optic Fibre Cable(OFC)
backbone of the state
-Tata Teleservices inpact withTata Infotech to set up a wireless
application Laboratory
at IIT-Mumbai.
-TTSL has announced an offer which enables its customers to own a
mobile phone
and a connection for Rs.999.
-TTML is negotiating with the Airport Authority of India (AAI) to
offer Tata Indicom
Wi-Fi services a high frequency wirefree access to the internet, at
airports.
-Tata Teleservices objected Reliance Infocomm locking in the
customers of its limited
mobility services for a period of 3 years and has termed it as
anti-curruption practices.
-TTSL has tied up with Motorola for the latters first commercial CDMA
software switch.
-TTSL has succesfully launched its Tata Indicomm CDMA services in
Pune, nagpur
Nasik and Aurangabad.
-Tata Teleservices has reached a milestone by crossing 1 lakh
subscribers in Delhi.
-TTSL has unveiled its CDMA -based mobile services in Mumbai with
lowest pulse rate
at 15 seconds.
-Mr.Amit Bose has been appointed as president of Tata Teleservices ,
incharge of
marketing, sales and other initiatives of Tata Teleservices.
-Tata Teleservices has unveiled a new scheme called Tata Shareholder
Privileges
for its shareholders, through which the company can get mobile
connection without
paying any upfront charges.
-Mr.Firdose Vandrevala has been appointed as new non-executive
chairman of
Tata teleservices.
-Dr. J. J. Irani handed over the Chairmanship of the Board of
Directors to Mr. Firdose A. Vandrevala.
-Launches basis telephone services in Pondicherry from 01/09/2003
-Tata Teleservices starts operations in Prakasam district
-Tata Teleservices selects Subex System's fraud management system
2004
-Tata Tele unveils m-tribe to tap talent
-Tata Tele awards CDMA contract to Motorola
-TTSL in alliance with Dept of Posts for bill payments in TN
-LaunchesTata Indicom PrePay service for fixed wireless phone (FWP)
in Andhra Pradesh and Delhi circles.
-Tata Teleservices has signed a memorandum of understanding with
China Unicom for joint development of applications on the CDMA
technology platform
-Tata Indicom has launched push-to-talk capable handsets, which
allows subscribers to connect instantly with other users of similar
handsets
-Tata Indicom forges alliance with Nokia to roll out gaming package
-Tata Indicom's IP-VPN services bags international accreditation
-Tata Teleservices has awarded a contract worth nearly $ 30 million
to Lucent Technologies to help in the CDMA network expansion of Tata
Teleservices in Andhra Pradesh
-VSNL joins hands with TTSL to offer global calling cards
-Tata Indicom launches new contest on Euro 2004
-Tata Indicom forays into wireless pre-paid segment with new
features
-Tata Indicom begins services in Sivakasi, Virudhunagar in TN
-Tata Teleservices Limited (TTSL) on September 1, 2004, announced the
launch of telecom services in Anantapur town that would cover fixed
wireless and mobile to customers
- Tata Indicom, on Sept 10, launches its services in Raichur
-Launches lower rate slab for its `True Paid' customers
-Tata Indicom rolls out first ever PTT service in India
2005
-Hyundai Motor sign MoU with Tata Indicom on Feb 11, 2005
-Tata Tele launches services in Uttaranchal
-TTSL ropes in Trisha as brand ambassador
-Tata Tele unveils Tata Indicom mobile services in Kerala
-Tata Teleservices inaugurates `Truepaid' campaign
-Tata Indicom ties-up with BangaloreOne for payment of its bills by
customers at BangaloreOne centres spread across the city
-Tata Tele, VSNL in pact with Indian Institute of Management Calcutta
to providing exclusive and customised communications solutions
-Tata Teleservices Ltd has launched its first `Tata Indicom True
Value Hub' in Kerala
2006
-Tata Tele unveils Tata Indicom Walky
-TTML joins hand with TCS, Qualcomm
-Tata Tele to divest 20 pc stake to Temasek, Sivasankaran
2008
- Tata Teleservices Maharashtra Ltd has informed that Mr. Anil
Sardana has been appointed as Non-Executive Director of the Company
and Mr. Nadir Godrej has been appointed as an Independent Director of
the Company w.e.f. March 12, 2008.
-Tata Teleservices Maharashtra Ltd has announced that it has crossed
the 5 million subscribers mark during the month of March. The Company
thanks its shareholders and all stakeholders for their support in its
progress towards this significant milestone.
2009
- Tata Teleservices Maharashtra Ltd has informed that Mr. D T Joseph
has been appointed as Independent Director of the Company w.e.f. May
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