Wednesday 30 July 2014

Uninor Enters Guinness Book of World Records.

For having the largest retail expansion in the country within a day ever, Uninor Mobile Phone Service Company has entered the Guinness Book of World Records. It has opened around 360 outlets in just one day. For making this world record, Uninor utilized 200 employees to satisfy over 150,000 subscribers in 6 telecom circles executed for over 5400 hours. Today, the company has 1100 stores which are successfully running. By introducing such stores, the company had its 1480 stores and their overall footprint to make it 2nd largest telecom operator in the 6 operating circles. 


In the month of April 2014, the company has started its retail expansion. It had mentioned in the statement of the company in February along with a huge investment worth Rs. 500 Cr. for distribution infrastructure and network expansion by 30% in the running telecom circles.  The company also started plans to re-deploy around 5000 sites from inactive circles and to expand its geographical region in current circles in the statement. Later on, Telenor, its maternal company, has also got approval of FIPB to expand the stake to 100% in Uninor for extra Rs. 780 Cr. of investment. Uninor is the brainchild of Telenor and an Indian telecom operator which is enhancing its network coverage. 

Currently, the company has over 4.5 million customers in Andhra Pradesh circle. Now it is going to enhance the concentration of service stations by 30% within three months to come. In order to have total 3500 stations, it will install 550 new ones. In Vijayawada, it is going to boost coverage in the southern state. Currently, the company has 6 operational circles out of total 22 ones in India. Earlier this year, it has got successful bid on additional 4 circles of 1800 MHz, including Bihar/Jharkhand, Andhra Pradesh, UP East and UP West. On these extra spectrums, the company invested around $136 million. But it has enhanced its data services and voice quality by 25% in such areas. Currently Uninor also offering several easy mobile recharges offers to its online customers.

Monday 28 July 2014

Uninor recharge plans at Gujarat in July, 14

Uninor has continued to consistently roll out great prepaid plans in Gujarat. The most popular amongst those being the Extra talk time offers. The recharge packs start from INR 70 which gives you a talk time of INR 80. The maximum value under this offer is recharge of INR 510 which gives you a whooping talk time of INR 650. Many telecom operators are known to provide extra talk time, but none of them are as good as Uninor. These are great recharge offers in Gujarat.

Uninor also has quite a few attractive STD plans in Gujarat. A recharge of INR 34 reduces your call rates to as low as 30p/min. Now you can freely call your loved ones outstation without having to worry about burning a hole in your pocket. This recharge pack is valid for duration of 28 days. If you want to make use of STD calls for a short period of time, you can recharge for INR 21 and use 50 min of STD calls for 15 days. The recharge ranges up to INR 194 if you would like to make 650 minutes of STD calls.


As Uninor has something to offer to everyone, there are great SMS packs in Gujarat as well. The best one of the lot is where you get to make 2500 local plus national messages for just INR 46 and that too for 28 days. This is indeed a cheap buy for those who still use SMS. If you are one of the in - trend smartphone user who loves to use IM apps like what’s app and Hike, worry not. Uninor has plenty of options to suit your need. Standard internet plan in Gujarat which is used most is that of INR 125 for 30 days, and gives you data limit of up to 2 GB. If your priority is just what’s app, you can recharge for INR 32 which allows you to use Facebook and what app is for 30 days and also gives you talk time of INR 5. There are more such offers. Head onto www.uninor.in for more details.