Syntel is a division of The Arvind Mills Limited; flagship Company of the Ahmedabad based Lalbhai Group. The telecom operations commenced from the year 1989 as a CDOT licensee for digital public and private switching equipment. In the nascent years the company made a major mark in establishing itself as one of the largest manufacturers of the 256 port Rural Automatic Exchanges. An active practitioner of quality systems, Syntel won its ISO 9001 certification in the year 1996 and was subsequently given the coveted Department of Telecommunication’s self-certification status for all its supplies of public switching equipment. In the year 1997 Syntel launched Shared Mobile Radio Services, under the brand name Omnitalk, in 10 metro and mini metro cities of India. Currently, this operation has been separated in a new company called AryaOmnitalk Wireless Solutions Private Limited - the largest Walky Talky Solutions (PMRTS) provider in India today.