Motorola, Inc. (NYSE: MOT), a global leader in wireless communications, and Tata Teleservices Limited, India's premier telecom service provider, today announced a collaboration to bring ‘Style’ to CDMA mobile phones for the Indian consumer. As part of this agreement, the companies today launched the stylish, sophisticated and feature-rich MOTORAZR V3c in two colours---Pearl Grey & Orchid Pink with matching Bluetooth headsets. Motorola and Tata Indicom will jointly market, distribute and support the MOTORAZR V3c across the country.
“We are happy to collaborate with Tata Teleservices to take the Indian CDMA consumer to a higher plane of mobile telephony,” said Sudhir Agarwal, Director-Sales, India, Nepal & Sri Lanka, Motorola Mobile Devices. “The MOTORAZR V3c with its iconic design will definitely bring in ‘style’, sleek sophistication, enhanced features along with excellent quality of service to make it a truly compelling offering. We are confident the Indian CDMA consumer will make a style statement with the MOTORAZR V3c."
Mr. Vinayak Deshpande, President, Enterprise and HNI business unit, Tata Teleservices said, “It gives us great pleasure to associate with Motorola. At Tata Teleservices, it is our constant endeavor to enhance the quality and convenience of everyday life, through the use of superior technology available at a reasonable cost.
“At Tata Teleservices we believe in adding not just to our services but products alike. We have seen great support from the customers who have chosen our services, and we believe that the introduction of MOTORAZR will only firm their belief in us being the right choice of telecom service provider.”
The MOTORAZR V3c handset has been launched by Tata Teleservices on an exclusive Max plan. Under this offer, the subscriber will enjoy the benefit of zero rentals for a period of 999 days. Additionally, subscribers will also get 10,000 free local minutes for calling Tata phones, 1,000 free local/national SMSes to any phones, a free Motorola Bluetooth headset worth Rs. 2300 (in colours matching that of the handset) as well as free access to office & personal mails through the just launched mobile mail service for a period of 3 months. This exclusive package carries a price tag of Rs. 14500 only.
In addition, Tata Indicom will also offer an Awesome Twosome offer where anyone buying a Grey and Pink handset pair will be eligible to get lifetime free calls & SMS’s between the two phones. This will be available at a special price of Rs. 25000 only with 2 matching Motorola Bluetooth headsets free & the Max plan.
The new sleek MOTORAZR V3c offers fast connectivity for downloading media* upto 10 times faster than a regular modem. Download and play videos*, and listen to high quality music; enjoy a brilliant TFT color display; capture images with the built-in 1.3 mega-pixel camera and digital zoom; choose MP3 ring tones with 72 polyphonic speaker sound. Weighing only 99 grams, the MOTORAZR V3c offers upto 188 minutes of talk time and upto 200 hours of standby time. One can also voice dial, place calls and access features using speaker independent voice recognition technology providing for a truly hands-free experience. Further, the MOTORAZR V3c also supports EVDO as and when available in the country, thus making it future proof. EVDO will enable high end 3G applications like web casting*, superior video download capability*, etc.
The MOTORAZR V3c mobile phones will be made available across the country through all retail outlets where Tata Indicom mobile phones are exhibited including all Tata Indicom True Value Hubs, Shoppes and Express through Tata Indicom’s extensive distribution network of 120 True Value Hubs, 250 True Value Shoppes spread across 22 circles.
“We are happy to collaborate with Tata Teleservices to take the Indian CDMA consumer to a higher plane of mobile telephony,” said Sudhir Agarwal, Director-Sales, India, Nepal & Sri Lanka, Motorola Mobile Devices. “The MOTORAZR V3c with its iconic design will definitely bring in ‘style’, sleek sophistication, enhanced features along with excellent quality of service to make it a truly compelling offering. We are confident the Indian CDMA consumer will make a style statement with the MOTORAZR V3c."
Mr. Vinayak Deshpande, President, Enterprise and HNI business unit, Tata Teleservices said, “It gives us great pleasure to associate with Motorola. At Tata Teleservices, it is our constant endeavor to enhance the quality and convenience of everyday life, through the use of superior technology available at a reasonable cost.
“At Tata Teleservices we believe in adding not just to our services but products alike. We have seen great support from the customers who have chosen our services, and we believe that the introduction of MOTORAZR will only firm their belief in us being the right choice of telecom service provider.”
The MOTORAZR V3c handset has been launched by Tata Teleservices on an exclusive Max plan. Under this offer, the subscriber will enjoy the benefit of zero rentals for a period of 999 days. Additionally, subscribers will also get 10,000 free local minutes for calling Tata phones, 1,000 free local/national SMSes to any phones, a free Motorola Bluetooth headset worth Rs. 2300 (in colours matching that of the handset) as well as free access to office & personal mails through the just launched mobile mail service for a period of 3 months. This exclusive package carries a price tag of Rs. 14500 only.
In addition, Tata Indicom will also offer an Awesome Twosome offer where anyone buying a Grey and Pink handset pair will be eligible to get lifetime free calls & SMS’s between the two phones. This will be available at a special price of Rs. 25000 only with 2 matching Motorola Bluetooth headsets free & the Max plan.
The new sleek MOTORAZR V3c offers fast connectivity for downloading media* upto 10 times faster than a regular modem. Download and play videos*, and listen to high quality music; enjoy a brilliant TFT color display; capture images with the built-in 1.3 mega-pixel camera and digital zoom; choose MP3 ring tones with 72 polyphonic speaker sound. Weighing only 99 grams, the MOTORAZR V3c offers upto 188 minutes of talk time and upto 200 hours of standby time. One can also voice dial, place calls and access features using speaker independent voice recognition technology providing for a truly hands-free experience. Further, the MOTORAZR V3c also supports EVDO as and when available in the country, thus making it future proof. EVDO will enable high end 3G applications like web casting*, superior video download capability*, etc.
The MOTORAZR V3c mobile phones will be made available across the country through all retail outlets where Tata Indicom mobile phones are exhibited including all Tata Indicom True Value Hubs, Shoppes and Express through Tata Indicom’s extensive distribution network of 120 True Value Hubs, 250 True Value Shoppes spread across 22 circles.