Hutchison Essar has announced the entry of its Hutch brand in Maharashtra and Goa circles and has said that it will make substantial investments in the two circles over the next year. The company is proposing to replace the existing infrastructure with the latest Nokia equipment, which will reportedly offer multi-layered mobile service plans based on GPRS and EDGE. It will also provide value-added services (VAS) such as voice recognition and high speed mobile gaming. The company recently acquired BPL's operations in eight circles across the country.