Mumbai: Tata Teleservices is expecting to kill two birds with one stone, or rather, one phone. This CDMA wireless services company, in collaboration with Samsung, has rolled out the first dual SIM card wireless phone in India that will work with CDMA as well as the rival GSM technology. One is the customer who is using the rival GSM technology who is reluctant to part with his old telephone number. The customer can sample the advantages of CDMA such as superior data services and eventually choose which service he wants, or even keep both. The other is the CDMA customer who seeks some of the unique advantages of GSM, the chief of them being seamless international roaming. While the handset can operate on any SIM card from any GSM provider, it is locked to TTSL''s network as far as CDMA services go, ensuring that the phone will not be used with any other CDMA service.
The Samsung Duo is priced at Rs 11,999 and has some attractive technological features such as bluetooth facility, handwriting recognition, a touch screen and so on, and would have some appeal for the technology addicts too. They think the enterprises, the small-office-home-office, and the professional segment will find this phone appealing. There is no data currently available on how many subscribers in India have both CDMA and GSM connections, which would be carrying at least two handsets and would be potential customers for the Samsung Duo.
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