Virgin Mobile, a mobile service of Tata Teleservices Ltd. launches GSM service in India. Currently company started offering GSM service in Andhra Pradesh, Chennai, Karnataka, Kerala and Tamil Nadu circles.The company also announced it has signed Ranbir Kapoor as brand ambassador along with Genelia D’Souza.
Company announce pay per second plan and pay per minute plan, in pay per second, local as well as STD calling rates are the same which is the main attraction of this plan. Also with Rs. 12 recharge, user gets a talk time of Rs 10.88 with 365 days validity. Also user can take benefit of lifetime validity at just Rs. 49.
Per second plan details:
Local/STD calling rates:
Virgin mobile to Virgin mobile: 1 paise per Second.
TO other mobiles (GSM or a CDMA) : 1 paise per Second.
To Landline or WLL phone: 1 paise per Second.
SMS charges:
Local: 50 paise
National: Re. 1
International: Rs. 5
Roaming charges: 60 paise per minute.
Company also announce some attractive services, ‘vGenie’, ‘vBelong’ and ‘vMingle’.'vGenie’ offers birthday reminders, wake-up calls and social networking updates. ‘vBelong’ allow user to design and create their own mobile websites (wap sites).’vMingle’ is a central place for popular social networks by which user can control number of social networks at one place with single log in.

