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Telecommunications Logistics - Railways States - Andhra Pradesh Tata Tele supplies CDMA mobile phones to SCR Our Bureau
Hyderabad , Sept. 27 Tata Teleservices Ltd on Wednesday issued 2,200 CDMA mobile handsets to South Central Railways for the running staff of its Secunderabad Division. The new communication system was handed over by Mr Sanjeev Khera, COO, AP Circle, Tata Teleservices, to Mr D. N. Mathur, General Manager, South Central Railway. The communication system is not only the single largest bulk order of Tata Indicom mobile phones acquired by any single organisation in Andhra Pradesh but also the highest number of phones acquired by any division of Indian Railways till date. Mr Khera, said in a statement: "We are pleased to take part in this process of simplifying their communication systems in a cost effective way and help South Central Railways in effective manpower utilisation." The Tata Indicom phones will be issued to each and every driver, assistant driver, guard and their supervisor with exclusive series telephone numbers. Some of the special features included in the system are web-based group SMS to facilitate conveying important and urgent messages to select group of staff in one go and roaming facility across the three States of Andhra Pradesh, Karnataka and Maharashtra. Included in the system are 50 Tata Indicom Walky phones, which will be installed as hotline phones in 45 of 49 identified important railway stations in the division. The system, which will operate as a closed user group (CUG) network, will be effective in communicating with the running staff in transit. The mobile phones as well as the hotline phones will have connectivity to Railway Exchanges and can access about 4000 Railway phones in Secunderabad Division.
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