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Kolkata, Sept 24 Tata Indicom, which has surpassed a customer base of one million in the Kolkata Telecom Circle, hopes to end the current fiscal with a customer base of 14 lakh in the circle. Between now and March, the company has outlined an investment of Rs 97 crore in Kolkata, according to Mr Abhijit Pal, COO, Kolkata Circle, Tata Teleservices Ltd.

Addressing newspersons at a function held here today to mark the one million customer-milestone in the Kolkata Telecom Circle, Mr Pal said that with the investment that had been planned for the current fiscal, Tata Teleservices’ cumulative investment in the circle would go up to Rs 593 crore by March 2008. Tata Teleservices had launched its CDMA technology-based telecom services in Kolkata in January 2005.

The company’s brand ambassador and former Indian cricket captain, Sourav Ganguly, was present at the function to felicitate company officials on their achievement.

According to Mr Pal, the number of Tata Indicom branded stores in the telecom circle would go up to 203 even as the number of retail outlets would touch the 10,000-mark by March 2008.

Mr Pal said the company’s cumulative investment in West Bengal would go up from Rs 788 crore now to Rs 929 crore by end-March 2008.

Likewise, the cumulative investment in the eastern region would go up from Rs 1,396 crore at present to Rs 1,702 crore by March 31,2008. By the end of the current fiscal, Tata Indicom’s customer base was targeted to go up to 24 lakh in West Bengal and to 41 lakh in the eastern region, he said.

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