Idea Cellular has launched its 4G LTE services in North East, after it launched 4G services in Orissa last month. It launched 4G services across five states in South India – Andhra Pradesh, Karnataka, Kerala, Tamil Nadu and Telangana in December last year. Idea 4G is now present in 9 circles.
It will launch 4G services in four more North Eastern states, Kohima, Imphal, Tura and Senapati by the end of this financial year and will launch 4G in Mokokchung in Nagaland by May.
Idea acquired 1800 MHz spectrum during the spectrum auctions in February 2014 and March 2015. It already announced its plans to roll out 4G services across its 10 telecom service areas – Maharashtra & Goa, Andhra Pradesh, Madhya Pradesh & Chhattisgarh, Kerala, Punjab and Haryana, Karnataka, Tamil Nadu and North East in over 750 large and small towns by the first half of 2016, which is by June 2016.
Idea customers with 4G devices in these towns can get 4G by upgrading their existing SIM cards to new 4G SIM cards through Idea stores nearby.