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History of Tata Teleservices [Maharashtras] Ltd.

YEAR EVENTS

2001 - Mr. Vinod Shukla, Director has resigned & Mr Pradeep Kaul has been appointed in his place.

2002-Hughes Tele.com crosses 150000 live customer lines.

-Hughes Tele confirms appointment of G Varghese as President and CEO.

-Hughes Tele.com India Ltd has informed that the Board has appointed Mr Jay Dehejia as a Director of Company. Mr Dehejia has also been appointed as a member of Audit Committee & Employees Stock Option Plan Compensation Committee. Mr Jay Dehejia is an Independent Director for purpose of Clause 49 of Listing Agreement.Further, the Board of Directors has at its meeting held today appointed Mr Paul W Cheng as an Alternate Director to Mr Jay Dehejia.

-Hughes Network Systems, a shareholder of Hughes Tele.com [Indias] Ltd [HTILs], & Tata Industries Ltd on April 23, 2002 signed a Memorandum of Understanding to discuss various possibilities for entering into a transaction with respect to the investment of HTIL sponsors in HTIL.

-Hughes Tele.com India Ltd has informed the Board of Directors of Comp. has accepted Mr Sett resignation at its meeting held on July 16, 2002. Mr Vivek Sett will however continue as the Company Chief Financial Officer.

-Hughes Tele.Com [Indias] Limited has informed the Exchange about the Change in Board of Directors as follows : 1.s] M/s. Pramod Mittal, Pradman Kaul, Jack Shaw, Francis X Frantz, Vinod K Mittal, James Lucchese, Pradeep Kaul, Jaykumar Dehejia and Vijay dhar have resigned from the office of Director of Comp. w.e.f December 6, 2002. Consequent to the above said resignations, M/s. Arun Kumar [alternate to Mr. Jack Shaws]. Sanjay Chaudhary [alternate to Mr. Francis X. Frantzs], Pranav Roach [alternate to James Luccheses], Partho Banerjee [Alternate to pradeep Kauls], Paul W Cheng [Alternate to Jaykumar Dehejias],John-Michael Lind [Alternate to Pramod Mittals] have also ceased to be alternate Directors w.e.f. December 6, 2002. 2.s] Dr. J J irani, Mr. S Ramakrishnan, Mr. Ishaat Hussain, Mr. R Gopalakrishnan, Mr. Kishor Chaukar, Mr. Firdose Vandrevala, Mr. N.S. Ramachandran and Mr. Pradman Kaul have been appointed as Directors of Comp. w.e.f. December 6, 2002. The Board will shortly be expanded to include one more director. The above changes have been approved at the meeting of Board of Directors of Comp. held on December 6, 2002.

2003

-Hughes Tele.com, telephony services provider of Maharashtra has been officially renamed as Tata Teleservices [Maharashtras] ltd.

-Tata Teleservices [Maharashtras] intensified its focus on rest of Maharashtra [besides Mumbais].

-TTSL , the Private basic telecom services operator has launched its Voice Mail Services[VMSs].

-Tata Teleservices has tied up with Tier 1 internet service provider n-Longue Communications to set up 400 telephone & internet Kiosks in rural TamilNadu.

-TTSL is re-evaluating its decision to expand its public Call Offices [PCO'ss] & Cyber Cafe's across the country under the Tata Indicom Umbrella.

-Trai soughts out for clarrification on tariffs from WLL Player-Tata Teleservices, eventhough the Comp. has maintained that its WLL tariffs have not been put on hold.

-Tata Teleservices ltd & Dishnet DSL Ltd have tied up for sharing of infrastructure and a co-location agreement across the country.

-Tata Teleservices has slashed its WLL STD rates to Rs.1.90 per minute for calls beyond 500kms..

-GTL & Tata Teleservices have been picked up by Andhra Pradesh Government to manage the information assets created by state as part of its e-governance initiatives.

-TTSL hass received clearance from TN government for setting up an Optic Fibre Cable[OFCs] backbone of state

-Tata Teleservices inpact withTata Infotech to set up a wireless application Laboratory at IIT-Mumbai.

-TTSL has announced an offer which enables its customers to own a mobile phone and a connection for Rs.999.

-TTML is negotiating with the Airport Authority of India [AAIs] to offer Tata Indicom Wi-Fi services a high frequency wirefree access to the internet, at airports.

-Tata Teleservices objected Reliance Infocomm locking in the customers of its limited mobility services for a period of 3 years & has termed it as anti-curruption practices.

-TTSL has tied up with Motorola for latters first commercial CDMA software switch.

-TTSL has succesfully launched its 'Tata Indicomm' CDMA services in Pune, nagpur Nasik & Aurangabad.

-Tata Teleservices has reached a milestone by crossing 1 lakh subscribers in Delhi.

-TTSL has unveiled its CDMA -based mobile services in Mumbai with lowest pulse rate at 15 seconds.

-Mr.Amit Bose has been appointed as president of Tata Teleservices , incharge of marketing, sales & other initiatives of Tata Teleservices.

-Tata Teleservices has unveiled a new scheme called 'Tata Shareholder Privileges' for its shareholders, through which the Comp. can get mobile connection without paying any upfront charges.

-Mr.Firdose Vandrevala has been appointed as new non-executive chairman of Tata teleservices.

-Dr. J. J. Irani handed over the Chairmanship of Board of Directors to Mr. Firdose A. Vandrevala.

-Launches basis telephone services in Pondicherry from 01/09/2003

-Tata Teleservices starts operations in Prakasam district

-Tata Teleservices selects Subex System fraud management system

2004

-Tata Tele unveils m-tribe to tap talent

-Tata Tele awards CDMA contract to Motorola

2004

-TTSL in alliance with Dept of Posts for bill payments in TN

-LaunchesTata Indicom PrePay service for fixed wireless phone [FWPs] in Andhra Pradesh & Delhi circles.

-Tata Teleservices has signed a memorandum of understanding with China Unicom for joint development of applications on the CDMA technology platform

-Tata Indicom has launched push-to-talk capable handsets, which allows subscribers to connect instantly with other users of similar handsets

-Tata Indicom forges alliance with Nokia to roll out gaming package

-Tata Indicom IP-VPN services bags international accreditation

-Tata Teleservices has awarded a contract worth nearly $ 30 million to Lucent Technologies to help in the CDMA network expansion of Tata Teleservices in Andhra Pradesh

-VSNL joins hands with TTSL to offer global calling cards

-Tata Indicom launches new contest on Euro 2004

-Tata Indicom forays into wireless pre-paid segment with new features

-Tata Indicom begins services in Sivakasi, Virudhunagar in TN

-Tata Teleservices Limited [TTSLs] on September 1, 2004, announced the launch of telecom services in Anantapur town that would cover fixed wireless & mobile to customers

- Tata Indicom, on Sept 10, launches its services in Raichur

-Launches lower rate slab for its `True Paid' customers

-Tata Indicom rolls out first ever PTT service in India

2005

-Hyundai Motor sign MoU with Tata Indicom on Feb 11, 2005

-Tata Tele launches services in Uttaranchal

-TTSL ropes in Trisha as brand ambassador

-Tata Tele unveils Tata Indicom mobile services in Kerala

-Tata Teleservices inaugurates `Truepaid' campaign

-Tata Indicom ties-up with BangaloreOne for payment of its bills by customers at BangaloreOne centres spread across the city

-Tata Tele, VSNL in pact with Indian Institute of Management Calcutta to providing exclusive & customised communications solutions

-Tata Teleservices Ltd has launched its first `Tata Indicom True Value Hub' in Kerala

2006

-Tata Tele unveils Tata Indicom Walky

-TTML joins hand with TCS, Qualcomm

2008

- Tata Teleservices Maharashtra Ltd has informed that Mr. Anil Sardana has been appointed as Non-Executive Director of Comp. & Mr. Nadir Godrej has been appointed as an Independent Director of Comp. w.e.f. March 12, 2008.