According to Tata Teleservices president and chief executive officer Serge Fortin, this contract will help the company in improving its operational efficiency and integrate its information systemfor improved management decision-making. "This will, in turn, allow us to focus on our core business of providing state-of-the-art telecommunication services to our customers," he said.

Tata Teleservices plans to have a subscriber base of 50,000 within a year of its operations. This is expected to go up to 3 lakh by the turn of the century. TCS, a division of Tata Sons, is one of the country's premier software houses. Besides being the largest Indian software company, it is also the largest software exporter.