Bharti Global granted license to operate telecom sve in Jersey

Kolkata, May 9 (UNI) Jersey Telenct Ltd, a subsidiary of Bharti Global has been granted a license to run comprehensive telecom services in Jersey. Services for which license has been granted include 2G and 3G Mobile services and international long distance services.

The company proposed to invest over 20 million pounds (GBP) in setting up a world class state of the art network that is expected to be operational from October 2006. The network and its systems will be set up in partnership with two global companies - Nokia- will be setting up the Telecom infrastructure and IBM will be the IT solutions provider.

Expertise will be drawn from group company Bharti Airtel, a release said here today.

This was the second international telcom venture of Bharti Global, Telcom Seychelles, a subsidiary of Bharti Global, has been offering Mobile and basic telephone services in Seychelles since 1998 under the Airtel brand.

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