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Zee Group, India’s biggest Media Group in collaboration with Motorola is all set to launch a digital public mobile radio trunking service in Bangalore. This new service will allow users to communicate with each other using digital walkie-talkie handsets, which allow broadband access and even look like mobile phones.

Mobile radio trunking also facilitates conversations within the user group absolutely free of charge and even have a range of over 50 kms. This means that they can be used anywhere in a city. Another important feature of this latest digital public mobile radio trunking service is that calls can be made to and received from other networks as well, provided that there is an interconnect agreement with telecom operators.

Moreover, the digital handsets will also facilitate private conversations within the group. The digital mobile radio trunking service is extremely cost effective, as the digital walkie-talkie handsets are available for less than Rs.10,000 and the service comes bundled with value-adds like broadband and SMS at Rs. 1,000 a month.

Zee Group has already applied to the Department of Telecommunications (DoT) for 1 MHz of the 3 MHz spectrum reserved for digital radio trunking services. However, Zee has also pointed out that except for a company Procall, which offers these services, no one else has applied for spectrum in Bangalore.