The Hindu Business Line : Airtel installs third switch in Mumbai

AIRTEL has installed its third switch in Mumbai, creating capacity for an additional six lakh customers in the city and allowing completion of an additional one million calls during peak hours.

This is to absorb the growing voice & data traffic and to simultaneously offer a congestion-free network for prospective customers, said a news release from the company.

This third switch has been supplied by Nokia. It is located in Lower Parel, in south central Mumbai, and will bring in further redundancy to the Airtel network in Mumbai.

The other two switches are located in North Mumbai, in Malad. Airtel is also planning to increase the number of cell sites in Mumbai from 800 to more than 1,000 by the year-end, said a statement from Bharti Tele-Ventures.

Airtel Mumbai has a current customer base of 8,13,381 as of end July 2005.

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