Sistema Shyam Teleservices Ltd (SSTL), a JV between Sistema of Russia and Shyam Group of India, which markets its mobile phone services under the brand 'MTS', rolled out three new smartphones in the Indian market.

The newly announced phones are priced between Rs 4,999 and Rs 13,500.

SSTL president and CEO Vsevolod Rozanov stated that the new handsets are the most cutthroat and completely loaded instruments that will set a benchmark in the biz with the 3G potentialities.

The smartphones including Ivory, Buzz and Alive come packed with social networking features and speedy data services.

The new phones will be sourced from ZTE, Micromax and Fly.

Available at a price of Rs 4,999, the Buzz features social networking websites like Facebook and Twitter together with QWERTY keypad and stretchy memory upto 4GB.

The customers will have to pay Rs 6,000 for Alive, which comes packed with an integral Opera Mini Browser.

Priced at Rs 13,500, Ivory provides access to 60 mobile TV channels together with new traits.

While lecturing on the BlackBerry's ban issue, Mr Rozanov said, ''Since we have not launched the devices yet, we haven't received any intimation form the government on this issue.''

The new phones are available at MTS 140 showrooms across the national capital and NCR.