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Airtel To Launch Picocells in India

September 2nd, 2010 Sanjay Bafna 21 comments

In a bid to provide seamless connectivity for voice and data to its corporate customers, India’s largest GSM mobile service operator Bharti Airtel has chosen ip.access, a UK-based developer of picocell and femtocell solutions to enhance the indoor GSM network coverage via nanoGSM picocells deployment across India.

After an extensive test and trial process, Airtel is deploying the ip.access nanoGSM picocell to deliver valuable extra mobile network coverage and capacity to its business customers, exactly where needed on their premises. This means that Airtel’s business customers can make use of faster and more dependable voice and data services, wherever they are on-site. Read more…

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Bharti Airtel Achieves Gold Certification from Cisco India

August 19th, 2010 Sanjay Bafna 23 comments

Bharti Airtel Achieves Gold Certification from Cisco IndiaBharti Airtel, one of the leading emerging markets’ telcos, today announced that it has achieved Gold Certification from Cisco. With this, Bharti Airtel is the first Indian telecom service provider to achieve this certification.

To earn Gold Certification, Bharti Airtel had to meet rigorous standards for networking competency, service, support and customer satisfaction set forth by Cisco.

Drew Kelton, President, Enterprise Services, Bharti Airtel said “We are pleased to announce our status as Cisco Gold Certified. The certification falls in line with our strategic goal of being the best resource to our customers’ needs. It is a mark of excellence and recognition of the exceptional level of service we offer to our customers. Combination of Cisco’s expertise with our services portfolio, uniquely positions us as a trusted ICT solution provider to our customers.” Read more…

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Nokia’s Ovi Life Tools Now on Airtel Mobile

August 17th, 2010 Tarun PK 5 comments

Nokia’s Ovi Life Tools Now on Airtel MobileBharti Airtel today joined hands with Nokia to launch Ovi Life Tools service with this association Airtel customers will be able to seamlessly activate Ovi Life Tools starting at Rs 10 per pack.

Ovi Life Tools is a range of innovative and personalized services covering Agriculture, Education and Entertainment targeted at both urban and rural consumers.Few months back Tata Docomo also partnered with Nokia to offer similar service

These services are designed to address information gaps thus enabling consumers to be better informed and positively impacting their life improvement and livelihood needs.

This service is available on a range of Nokia handsets including the popular entry level devices and is available in 11 Indian languages Read more…

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Farmers Bolstered By Airtel Kisan Mitra

August 16th, 2010 Tarun PK 27 comments

Farmers Bolstered By Airtel Kisan MitraBharti Airtel Ltd has initiated Airtel Kisan Mitra a project reiterating the benefits offered by IFFCO Kisan Sanchar Limited (IKSL), a joint venture of Bharti Airtel Ltd and Indian Farmer Fertilizers Cooperative Limited (IFFCO).

The sole objective of this project is to empower farmers with pertinent information through affordable communication network and friendly technologies.

IKSL offers relevant solutions for the farmers through its Helpline as well as the 5 voice messages managed by a team of experts on agriculture, fertilizers, soil, cattle, weather, Mandi information and public health.

This Helpline, which can be reached by dialing 534351, offers information on the following topics Read more…

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Bollywood On VAS Is A Big Hit In Airtel Gujarat

August 12th, 2010 Sanjay Bafna 2 comments

Bharti Airtel, India’s largest mobile service operator, which has around 60 lakh mobile phone subscribers in Gujarat, witnessed a new trend of VAS downloads in the state.

According to  Airtel   50% of VAS download demand comes from Bollywood and in remaining 50%, Bhojpuri is on top with more than 15% while Gujarati downloads could be equal or less.

Shivan Bhargava, COO, Gujarat Circle, Bharti Airtel said “The migrant population in Surat, Hazira, Jamnagar, Ankleshwar and other industrial areas has lots of employees from UP, Bihar and other eastern states. Under value added services (VAS), we have witnessed a tremendous rise of caller tunes, pictures, wallpapers, Read more…

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Stars Shining Down This August Dial 50505 To Chat Live With The Divas

August 10th, 2010 Jimmy Merchant 4 comments

Stars Shining Down This August! Dial 50505 To Chat Live With The DivasWell who do we have this time the month of august will bring the lovely Bollywood ladies a tad bit closer to you.

Thanks to Airtel, now you have a realistic chance of talking to the stunning Lara Dutta and the stylish bong beauty Bipasha Basu and no – Bipasha is not getting John along.

So its time to activate your Airtel Talk2Me service and get going. Who knows maybe you’ll get lucky to ask her out for a cup of coffee!

Airtel Talk2Me will help Airtel subscribers to interact  LIVE or listen to the LIVE conversations currently in progress. Lara Dutta will be Live on August 12th and the stylish Bipasha Basu on August 19th from 2-4pm. Read more…

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Change Of Guard At Airtel Delhi, Sanjeev Kumar Saxena Is New CEO

August 9th, 2010 Jimmy Merchant 17 comments

Change Of Guard At Airtel Delhi, Sanjeev Kumar Saxena Is New CEOBharti Airtel, a leading global telecommunications company with operations in 18 countries across Asia and Africa, today announced the appointment of Mr. Sanjeev Kumar Saxena as the new Chief Executive Officer (CEO) – Delhi & NCR, Mobile Services.

Mr. Sanjeev Kumar Saxena, CEO – Delhi & NCR, Mobile Services, Bharti Airtel said, “Delhi & NCR is a highly competitive and dynamic market where we are the leading mobile service provider. My goal would be to sustain our leadership position and to lead the launch of 3G services for our customers into this market”

Prior to this assignment,Sanjeev Kumar handled varied leadership profiles in Airtel, as the CEO of Upper North (Haryana, Punjab, Himachal Pradesh, Jammu & Kashmir) and COO of Orissa circle. Sanjeev efficiently spearheaded circle mergers and seamless transition of services in these regions. Also, under his able leadership, Bharti Airtel went on to dominate the market in these circles

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