 SSTL’s MTS today offered a low tariff call services to Russia offering calls to the county at Rs 4.99 per minute. The special tariffs are limited to subscribers of MTS Russia and offers MTS subscribers in Russia to make calls at up to 85 % discount from the existing prices.
“India and Russia have agreed to increase their bilateral trade to $10bn by 2010 from this year’s expected level of $7bn. In order to increase mutual interest between Indian and Russian corporate giants, Indian business leaders should frequently reach out directly to the 89 Russian regions while Russian joint ventures must directly deal with Indian states. Mobile communications is an essential element of this process of integration and business efficiency between India and Russia. We hope that cooperation between MTS and Sistema Shyam TeleServices Ltd will help strengthen this partnership. As a result of this partnership, the cost of making calls to “MTS Russia” network for ‘MTS India” subscribers is reduced to just Rs.4.99 per minute, which is the best price till date in India for making calls to Russia”, noted Leonid Musatov, Chief Marketing Officer, Sistema Shyam TeleServices, India.
"The partnership between MTS and Sistema Shyam TeleServices opens new opportunities for Indo-Russian business relations, which is especially important as the year 2009 was declared as the ‘Year of India’ by the government of Russia. In particular, Russian businessmen are getting a great opportunity for affordable communication with their business partners in major Indian administrative and business centers for a great price – at a cost equivalent of making long distance calls within Russia", said Mikhail Gerchuk, Vice- President for Commercial Affairs of Russia-based MTS.
More than 50 thousand Indian citizens have visited Russia over the last year with 90 % of such visits being for business or study. In turn, 75 thousand Russians visited India in 2007.
MTS has now included SSTL under its list of operators who get special discounted tariffs upon subscribing to MTS services. |