Tata Communications, a leading telecom and Internet services provider, today announced their partnership with F-Secure, the global leading provider of security as a service through ISPs and mobile operators, to offer mobile phone security services in India.

With this latest alliance, Tata Communications will be the first to offer F-Secure's award wining complete Mobile Security package, which includes virus protection, malware protection and an integrated firewall, to over 50 million smart phone users in India.

Mobile Security protects the mobile from spyware and espionage software that may monitor and record all the actions on a mobile phone, including voice calls, SMS, multimedia and e-mail messages. It safeguards phones from unwanted billing (caused by virus that trying to propagate, infiltrate) and additionally protects the handheld devices from becoming unusable due to malware.

The company claims that suite supports all main mobile operating systems like Window Mobile, Symbian and UIQ and delivers real-time, invisible and automated safety with easy to use firewall rule sets and automatic over-the-air antivirus update.

The interested users can directly download the 30-day-free trial of application on their GPRS-activated smartphones from mybusiness. tataindicombroadband. com/MobileSecurity. aspx or purchase the full version at a price of Rs 999.

It should be noted that Tata Communications already had partnership with F-secure to provide solutions for both PC & Server Security.