As we shared earlier about Airtel’s 4G-LTE launch in Kolkata, it come true as today Airtel will showcase its 4G services in Kolkata. The inauguration of Airtel 4G will be celebrated with a special event organized at ITC Sonar, Kolkata. Union telecom minister Kapil Sibbal will be the chief guest of the event.

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Airtel 4G-LTE Plan Details and Devices

Airtel will offer 4G-LTE services over a wide range of devices including airtel 4G-LTE USB modem (Huawei E392) and airtel 4G LTE Indoor Wireless Gateway (Huawei B593). Airtel officials at the launch event clarified that it requires a 4G enabled 128kB USIM (priced at Rs 49) to use on the dongle. The airtel 4G LTE data card and WiFi CPE will be network locked. The price of the dongle and WiFi CPE are Rs 7999 and Rs 7750 respectively.

With Airtel 4G-LTE you can use mobile internet with bandwidth up to 40Mbps! Don’t surf, just fly! 

Airtel 4G-LTE is based upon LTE-TDD (Time Division Duplex Long Term Evolution) using 20MHz of 2300MHz spectrum band which Airtel won in BWA auction held on 2010. Airtel’s 4G-LTE network in Kolkata will be managed by ZTE Corp. In fact ZTE completed the 4G set up in a record time. ZTE supplied eNodeB and TD-LTE RAN for Airtel’s 4G-LTE roll out.

Airtel 4G LTE can be used at home or your office for Wireless internet access, access rich content and multimedia applications eg: e-learning, HD content-movies etc, multiple downloads of heavy files, high definition multimedia content at the same time will be possible, Higher uplink and downlink speeds, Seamless online streaming – without buffering, High definition online gaming, access business applications that require higher speeds and last mile connectivity.