Nine of India’s cellular telephone operators will form an alliance enabling subscribers to use their phones in any part of India and subsequently abroad, an official of the alliance said: subscribers to World 1, a joint brand name for the new network, will be issued a single common Subscriber Identification Module enabling them to roam the country without changing identity cards when the service starts at the end of 1997. The nine companies in the alliance are Hutchison Max in Bombay, Airtel i n New Delhi, Escotel in Haryana, Hexacomm in Rajasthan, Birla AT&T in Gujarat, Maharashtra (except Bombay), Modi-Telstra in Calcutta, Kerala and Uttar Pradesh (West), RPG Cellular in Madras, Modicom in Punjab and Tata Cellular in Andhra Pradesh.
