MTNL launches prepaid mobile services in Mumbai

MTNL in association with Sterlite Technologies has launched its Prepaid Broadband Services for residential and enterprise customers in Mumbai. This service would give MTNL clients the flexibility to instantly customize their broadband subscription plans, based on their self-estimated bandwidth usage. Sterlite's deployment of the Prepaid Broadband Solution for MTNL leverages common network hardware & software assets to provide MTNL with network scalability. R S P Sinha, CMD, MTNL said, “MTNL Broadband service is the No1 broadband service in Mumbai and is constantly progressing in term of customer numbers and revenues. The broadband connections are being provided on demand in almost all the areas of Mumbai. We have introduced many customer friendly plans in postpaid broadband from time to time and the prepaid broadband will be another customer friendly initiative which will give flexibility to customers to control their usage.  I am confident that prepaid scheme will also be as popular as existing broadband plans.” The prepaid solution deployment is part of a broadband project by MTNL in Mumbai, under which Sterlite Technologies is providing an end-to-end solution that includes OSS/BSS. Sterlite's scope of services for this project includes project management, installation and deployment, network operations, network maintenance, integration and testing. Sterlite has also partnered with MTNL in implementation of several key technology platforms in Mumbai and New Delhi, that include MPLS Core Network, Metro-Ethernet Broadband + OSS/BSS, NGN / IPTAX.