BPL Mobile plans to enhance benefits of CPP

BANGALORE: BPL Mobile has announced its plans to enhance the benefits of

calling party pays-based (CPP) charging for incoming calls. BPL Cellular Ltd.

Managing Director K.S. Jayanth Kumar said that with the introduction of CPP,

mobile phone services would become easily affordable and that would not only

lead to more people using mobile phones but also higher usage per subscriber.

The CPP would come into effect on November 1 and it would usher in an era of

affordable mobile telephony, he said.

The use of modern technology ``in our network can support the increased usage

without any compromise in quality'', he said. This was possible as the BPL

mobile network in Kerala had deployed the Synchronomous Digital Hierarchy (SDH)

technology which not only provided for larger capacity and flexibility but also

quicker expansion, thereby, avoiding network congestion. It provided easy

accessibility to the subscribers at all times across 42 towns in Kerala, he

said. Besides, the BPL Mobile network in the State was optimized for minimum

battery consumption so as to reduce the replacement cost, he said.

He said that BPL Mobile had offers such as `Family and friends plan' for

frequently called numbers and the `Gulf super value plan' for NRIs based in West

Asia. In addition, he said, for its subscribers who went overseas frequently,

BPL Mobile had launched the International Roam Free facility.