Prepaid mobile telephony services provider Telenor (India) Communications, on Monday announced that it had provided life insurance to a million of its customers - existing and new, who got a recharge done, while a million others were in the pipeline and would come under the insurance cover programme when they recharged their phones in Andhra Pradesh and Telangana.
Formerly Uninor and a wholly-owned company of the Norway-based Telenor Group, Telenor is currently present in six circles across India and was the first in the industry to launch the free life insurance scheme called Telenor Suraksha, said its Circle Business Head (AP & TS) Shrinath Kotian. Of the 18 million subscribers who had enrolled for the offer scheme, pan-India, 7.8 million had already been insured, he added.
