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Bharti Airtel Ltd today announced the launch of Airtel PCO services in Maharashtra State Road Transport Corporation (MSRTC) buses for the convenience of passengers, says a UNI report.
MSRTC bus commuters in Maharashtra can make local and STD calls while on the move, an Airtel release here today said.
Speaking about the tie-up, Bharti Airtel’s COO (Mobile Services) Mandeep Bhatia said: ‘‘The tie-up testifies our commitment to offer customer centric services to the people of Maharashtra.’’
Airtel has become the first service provider to offer the service across Maharashtra whereby commuters’ local calls will be charged at Re one for 60 seconds and STD calls at Re one for 20 seconds, the release added.
Airtel has tied-up with MSRTC to offer the service in 4,500 long and medium distance buses of the Corporation.
With this alliance around 17 lakh MSRTC bus commuters everyday can avail the Airtel PCO service. Currently over 1,000 PCO’s have been installed in the MSRTC buses. The entire installations would be completed by last week of May.
The PCO installations would be undertaken across 248 MSRTC bus depots spread over, six regions that would cover 30 major cities including Pune, Mumbai, Nasik, Amravati, Aurangabad and Nagpur and close to 218 towns in Maharashtra.
The Airtel PCO is a GSM-based phone and will work on prepaid platform. MSRTC will be responsible for the entire cash management for the PCO operation in their buses, while Airtel will be responsible for the maintenance cost of the PCOs.