Maxis owned Aircel to get LoI from DoT
DoT has cleared the deck for Aircel to operate in seven more circles in India. Aircel currently operates in the circles of Chennai, TamilNadu, Assam, Orissa, West Bengal, Jammu & Kashmir and North East India. It has receievd approval from the DoT to start operations in Mumbai, Maharashtra, Karnataka, Rajasthan, Delhi, Gujarat and Andhra Pradesh service areas.With the entry of Maxis, the number of mobile service providers with PAN India presence now goes up to nine.
Aircel is majority owned by Maxis Telecom of Malaysia. With the entry of Maxis, you can only expect your call charges to go down 
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[...] Looking at Hutch and SingTel, Malaysian-Indian entrepreneur, Anand Krishnan, founder of Maxis jumped to expand his telecom business from Malaysia to India. Maxis also has operations in Indonesia through its subsidiary, PT Natrindo Telepon Seluler (NTS). Maxis entered India early this year buying out 74% stake in Aircel in Tamlinadu and is also expanding in 8 more cellular circles. Excerpts from Maxis’ Q2 report, Maxis grew its Malaysia subscriber base by 3% to 8.47m users. In India, it grew total users by 23% to 3.2m. India’s Aircel contributed RM61m to PBT. [...]