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Aircel group is an Indian http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mobile_network_operator headquartered in Chennai, Tamil Nadu, that provides wireless voice, messaging and data services in India. It is a joint venture between Maxis Communications Berhad of Malaysia and Sindya Securities & Investments Private Limited, whose current shareholders are the Reddy family of Apollo Hospitals Group of India, with Maxis Communications holding a majority stake of 74%.^{[citation needed]} Aircel commenced operations in 1999 and today the leading mobile operator in Tamil Nadu, Assam, North- East and Chennai.
It is India’s fifth largest GSM mobile service provider & seventh largest mobile service provider (both GSM and CDMA) with a subscriber base of over 51.83 million, as of January 31, 2011.^{[citation needed]} It has a market share of 6.72% among the GSM operators in the country.^{[citation needed]}
Additionally, Aircel has also obtained permission from Department of Telecommunications (DoT) to provide International Long Distance (ILD) and National Long Distance (NLD) telephony services. It also has the largest service in Tamil Nadu.

3G Coverage

Aircel’s 3G service is currently available in the following cities/towns in 13 telecom circles:

This is an incomplete list, which may never be able to satisfy particular standards for completeness. You can help by expanding it with reliably sourced entries.

Telecom Circle	State/Region	No. of Towns	Cities/Towns
Andhra Pradesh	Andhra Pradesh	12	Hyderabad, Vijayawada, Vizag, Tirupathi, Kurnool, Nellore, Kakinada, Rajahmundry, Guntur, Karimnagar, Nizamabad, Warangal
Assam	Assam	6	Guwahati, Tinsukia, Dibrugarh, Jorhat, Tezpur, Sibsagar
Bihar	Bihar	1	Patna
	Jharkhand	0
Jammu & Kashmir	Jammu & Kashmir	1	Srinagar
Kanpur†	Kanpur†	N/A	N/A
Karnataka	Karnataka	1	Bangalore,MYSORE
Kerala	Kerala	14	Kochi/Ernakulam, Kozhikode, Palakkad, Thiruvananthapuram, Malappuram, Kannur, Thrissur Alappuzha, Ambalapuzha, Kollam, Kottakkal, Thalassery, Kasaragod, Manjeri.
West Bengal	West Bengal	4	Asansol, Durgapur, Siliguri, Kharagpur
Kolkata†	Kolkata†	N/A	N/A
North East	Arunachal Pradesh	0
	Meghalaya	1	Shillong
	Manipur	1	Imphal
	Mizoram	0
	Nagaland	2	Dimapur, Kohima
	Tripura	1	Agartala
Orissa	Orissa	1	[[Bhubaneswar],]Rourkela
Tamil Nadu	Tamil Nadu	2	Chennai, Coimbatore, Hosur
Uttar Pradesh (East)	Eastern Uttar Pradesh	4	Lucknow, Allahabad, Varanasi

Sponsorships

Aircel is one of the sponsors of the Indian Premier League Cricket Team Chennai Super Kings. It is also the major sponsors for Chennai Open (the only ATP tennis tournament in India), and Professional Golf Tour of India.

Network Codes

• 40417 -West Bengal
• 40425 -Bihar
• 40428 -Orissa
• 40429 -Assam
• 40433 -North East
• 40435 -Himachal Pradesh
• 40437 -Jammu&Kashmir
• 40442 -Tamil Nadu
• 40441 -Chennai
• 40491 -Kolkata
• 405811 -Kanpur
• 405810-Uttar Pradesh(East)
• 405811-Uttar Pradesh(West)
• 405812-Punjab

 Message Centre Numbers

• Tamil Nadu - +919842201155
• Punjab - +919803099060
• Mtn - +234803000000
• Airtel- +2348020000009