Majority owned by Bharti Group & SingTel, headed by Sunil Bharti Mittal Airtel is the largest mobile service provider in India and the third largest mobile operator globally. Currently it has also presence in Bangladesh, Sri Lanka, 17 countries of Africa (after acquiring Zain’s African assests) and Channel Islands. In India Airtel offers GSM mobile services, 3G/HSPA, 4G/LTE-TDD, fixed telephony & broadband services and DTH & IPTV.
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The Supreme Court of India today ruled that Bharti Airtel cannot add any new 3G customers via intra-circle roaming pact with Idea Cellular and Vodafone India, till further notice in circles which airtel did not have 3G spectrum to offer services. The court has allowed Vodafone India and Idea Cellular to be party to the 3G roaming case filed by Bharti Airtel. Supreem Court also said that that existing 3G ... [Read more]
The Supreme Court of India today granted some interim relief to Bharti Airtel over 3G intra circle roaming services in 7 telecom circles in which it did not have 3G Spectrum to offer services. Supreme Court has asked the Department of Telecommunications (DoT), not to take any action on the Bharti Airtel till Thursday, 11th April, 2013. Earlier on March 15 DoT asked the Airtel to terminate its 3G roaming ... [Read more]
Delhi High Court division bench today vacated stay given to Bharti Airtel on 3G Intra-circle roaming facilities. According to our sources now Airtel need to shut down 3G ICR service in 7 circles where it did not have such air waves/3G spectrum in next 3 days. On December 23, 2011, the department of telecommunications (DoT) had sent notices to firms, including Airtel, Vodafone and Idea Cellular, asking them to stop ... [Read more]
Airtel today became the first operator to launch Broadband plans on VDSL technology at speed of 40Mbps for customers in Hyderabad. VDSL is the newest and most advanced standard of Broadband wireline communications. In line with their data usage and requirements, Airtel customers can now choose from an array of tariff plans. A. Ultrasonic 3999 offers 200 GB data usage along with 2000 free voice minutes B. Ultrasonic 3299 offers ... [Read more]
In an order to tap inactive MTS Dongle (MBrowse & MBlaze) users, country’s largest mobile operator Airtel is offering an awesome offer in those circles MTS shut down services. Customers have to pay just Rs 450 to get Airtel 3G dongle free and 2GB of 3G data for a month. The offer from Airtel is available for postpaid only – and Airtel adds a cash back of Rs 225 in ... [Read more]
Singapore’s telecom major SingTel stands beside Bharti Airtel by stating it has full faith in the company’s corporate governance standards under the leadership of Sunil Mittal. Singtel holds about 32 per cent stake in Bharti Airtel. On Tuesday, a special CBI court summoned present and former top honchos of the telecom industry, including Bharti Airtel Chairman and Managing Director Sunil Mittal, for their alleged involvement in additional spectrum allocation in ... [Read more]
India’s largest mobile operator Bharti Airtel is going to announce its 4G presence in Chandigarh, the capital of Punjab and Haryana today. Though the launch is announced today, the commercial availability is going to commence from 25th of March, 2013. Airtel 4G/LTE-TD network is also available in Mohali and Panchkula. Chandigarh will be the fourth city in the country with LTE network following Kolkata, Bangaluru and Pune where Airtel launched services. ... [Read more]
As we shared earlier that DoT ordered Airtel to stop 3G services in 7 circles where Airtel is offering 3G via ICRA with Vodafone and Idea within 72 hours, the cat and mouse game of 3G Roaming continues as Airtel got a breather from court. On 15th March DoT slammed the order on Airtel to shut down controversial 3G roaming services in 7 circles. Airtel went to Delhi High Court ... [Read more]
Government of India has ordered country’s largest cellular player Bharti Airtel to stop providing 3G services in Kolkata, Maharastra, Uttar Pradesh East, Kerala, Madhya Pradesh, Gujarat and Haryana and slapped with Rs 350 crore penalty. Airtel, Vodafone India and Idea Cellular partnered to form an alliance to offer pan India 3G services, though none of them has pan India 3G spectrum. DoT tried to close this deal by the three ... [Read more]
India’s largest mobile service operator Bharti Airtel, today announced new and affordable “Roaming Plan” with Free Incoming Call facility and outgoing rates same as Home & Roam for its Delhi – NCR customers that would travel to Bihar – Jharkhand, Uttar Pradesh Eeast and West including Uttrakhand and West Bengal – Sikkim – Andman – Nikobar (except Kolkata) telecom circles. With this, over 9 million plus Airtel prepaid mobile customers ... [Read more]
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