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India’s 5th largest Telecom service provider Aircel marked its formal entry into the Southern Indian state Karnataka by launching GSM mobile services in Bangalore on Monday. Aircel will invest Rs 1,100 crore over the next year to set up base stations across the state.

AIRCEL India’s fifth largest GSM Mobile service operator, today announced the launch of the “PAY PER SECOND” plan for its GSM Preapaid service customers in Mumbai.

Airtel and Research In Motion (RIM) (Nasdaq: RIMM; TSX: RIM) today introduced a new service plan specifically for Airtel customers in India. The BlackBerry® Personal Mail service plan is an innovative offering that provides Airtel customers with unlimited email and instant messaging (IM) on BlackBerry® smartphone for just Rs. 499 per month. It is the first service plan priced at less than Rs. 500 to offer unlimited email and IM to BlackBerry smartphone customers in the Indian market.

Aircel, a joint venture between Maxis Communications Berhad (Malaysia) and Apollo Hospital Enterprise, launched its GSM services in Delhi on Wednesday. Since February, Aircel has entered Kerala and Karnataka markets, besides Andhra Pradesh.

The latest CDMA offering from the RIM stables, the Blackberry Tour, will be continued to be sold along with its predecessors -- the BlackBerry Curve 8330, BlackBerry Pearl 8130, BlackBerry 8703 and BlackBerry 8830.

A list of countries considering BlackBerry bans over security concerns with data routed abroad:
- India - The country of almost 1.2 billion people had threatened to block corporate e-mail and messaging services unless BlackBerry maker Research In Motion Ltd.

Mobile phone service provider, Aircel becomes the first to launch 'unlimited dialer tune cards' bringing to the consumers an exciting experience in the world of 'music' at no extra cost.

Research In Motion Ltd., maker of the BlackBerry phone, said Thursday that some of its North American customers are experiencing outages with the phone's BIS, or BlackBerry Internet Service which is affecting their email service.

Research in Motion (RIM) today announced the launch of network independent BlackBerry Curve 8520 and BlackBerry Storm in the Indian market to be made available through its distribution partner Redington across 38 cities in India.