BWI: Aircel & Helpage India Request all to Donate Old, Spare Mobile Phones for the Elderly in Old Age Homes

Press release from Business Wire India
Source: AIRCEL
Thursday, December 24, 2009 11:10 PM IST (05:40 PM GMT)
Editors: General: Consumer interest, People, Social issues; Business: Advertising, PR & marketing, Business services, Information technology, Media & entertainment, Telecommunications
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Aircel & Helpage India Request all to Donate Old, Spare Mobile Phones for the Elderly in Old Age Homes


New Delhi, Delhi, India, Thursday, December 24, 2009 -- (Business Wire India) -- Aircel and Helpage India come together to encourage one and all this festive season to Donate your Old and Spare Mobile Phones for the elderly in Old Age Homes and fill the lonely with love.

Aircel has set up Drop Boxes in Big Shopping Malls, Clubs, News Agencies and Aircel Retail Outlets where in the old / spare mobile phones can be dropped. Also one can SMS 'Donate Phone' to 5800000 and you would receive an acknowledgement. You can also log on to the Aircel Website www.aircel.com and can register.

The Phones collected from all over India will then be checked, repaired and activated by Aircel and then handed over to Helpage India.

Mr. Gurdeep Singh COO, Aircel said, " We at Aircel our extremely sensitive to Corporate Social Responsibility and this festive season we encourage all to come forward and contribute by donating their old/spare mobile phones for the elderly in Old Age Homes . We are creating awareness by way of TVC's, Print Ads and Digital Media to mobilize everyone for this cause".

Aircel will provide free talk time for a period of one year.

Do Join us in this endeavor to Care, Connect and Communicate with the Elderly.

About Aircel

Aircel, a part of Maxis Communications Berhad, Malaysia, is India's fifth largest GSM mobile service provider with a subscriber base of 30 million and is the fastest growing mobile operator in the country. It is the market leader in Tamil Nadu, Assam, North-East and Chennai. . Aircel is now present in 18 Telecom Circles (Mumbai, Pune, Uttar Pradesh East, Uttar Pradesh West, Delhi, Andhra Pradesh, Karnataka, Kerala, Kolkata, Assam, Bihar, Chennai, Himachal Pradesh, Jammu and Kashmir, North-East, Orissa, Tamil Nadu and West Bengal) and with spectrum secured for all the remaining circles (a total of 23 circles in India), the company is on track to become a leading Pan-India Operator. For more information, please log on to www.aircel.com




CONTACT DETAILS
Shalini Sethi, Corporate Communications, Aircel Limited, +919711597229, shalini.sethi@aircel.co.in
Madhavi Kochar, 20:20 MEDIA, +91 9810788188, madhavi@2020india.com

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