Private telecom service provider, Tata Teleservices and mobile commerce solutions firm, PayMate have joined hands to offer flight ticketing service on the mobile phone to Tata IndiCom's subscribers across the country.

The agreement will enable Tata Indicom's subscribers to book domestic air tickets for all airlines from anywhere in the country, the Teleservice company stated in a release.

"Ticketing has been one of the most popular m-commerce applications in the mobile telephone space and we are excited to partner with PayMate and add flight ticketing application in bouquet of value added services," Pankaj Sethi, President Value Added Services, Tata Teleservices said.

The company, in partnership with PayMate, has also plans to offer a range of ticketing applications in the near future, the company release said.

PayMate has also partnered with Kingfisher airlines to launch an SMS-based ticketing service, it added.

Tata Teleservices has operations in more than 4,000 towns across 20 circles in India and has a customer-base of over 2.1 crore.