This service enables its WLL subscribers to use the same mobile handset, while roaming between different short distance charging areas.
Reliance Infocomm already offers this service to its subscribers.
As per the subscription invoice issued today to five different subscribers, Tata Teleservices was providing at least two different phone numbers to its WLL limited mobility subscribers in Maharashtra, which allows them to roam between Mumbai, Navi Mumbai and Kalyan with the same handset.
As per the licence conditions of WLL limited mobility services, the operators are not supposed to offer roaming services. However, WLL operators, like Reliance Infocomm, have found a way to beat the rule with services like call-forwarding, which allows subscribers to move from one SDCA to another.
Tata officials claim they are not offering the same service as that being offered by Reliance Infocomm. A Tata statement said,
