The Hindu Business Line : Tata Indicom's Walky gets award

TATA Indicom has received the `Best Service in Emerging Markets Award' for its fixed wireless service, Walky, at the World Communication Awards, held recently in London.

The World Communication Award recognises outstanding achievement among telecom service providers at a global, regional and national level.

Mr Harish Bhat, President-Marketing, Tata Teleservices, said, "The Award clearly depicts that our Fixed Wireless Service is increasingly and rapidly gaining popularity. The market response to this product has been very positive and we see tremendous growth potential in this product category going forward. We are keen to further grow this category and offer a range of feature-rich phone instruments to our customers at great value tariffs."

Earlier, the Government had hauled up Tata Teleservices for offering Walky as a mobile service under the garb of fixed line telephony allegedly to avoid payment of access deficit charge.

The company was later directed to pay the ADC and continue the service.

Tata Indicom was the first to launch CDMA-based Fixed Wireless Service in the country. "Around the globe, manufacturers had considered Fixed Wireless Service as a dead product. But after the tremendous success of Tata Indicom, Fixed Wireless Service in India, today international vendors are investing money and are taking interest in Research and Development (R&D) on Fixed Wireless Service," said a company release.

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