Bharti Airtel Ltd, India's largest GSM service provider, has announced 3 unique data roaming packages to download and use data while roaming in the Asia Pacific region and Australia.
Airtel mobile users just need to subscribe to any one of the data plans and enjoy savings of up to 88% on data usage.
With the Bridge Data Roam plans, customers can access an average:
-100 emails OR 500 WAP pages on the 5MB plan
-300 emails OR 1500 WAP pages on the 15MB plan
-800 emails OR 4000 WAP pages on the 40MB plan
The above calculations are based on an average email size of 10 KB and and average web page size of 100 KB.
| Subscription Plan | Capped usage | Monthly Charges | Normal Tariff | Savings | To Activate (send SMS) |
| Bridge DataRoam5 | 5 MB | Rs. 600 | Rs. 2400 | 75% | ‘ACTDROAM5’ to 121 |
| Bridge DataRoam15 | 15 MB | Rs. 1200 | Rs. 7200 | 83% | ‘ACTDROAM15’ to 121 |
| Bridge DataRoam40 | 40 MB | Rs. 2400 | Rs. 19200 | 88% | ‘ACTDROAM40’ to 121 |
Countries where the Bridge Data Plans can be used are:
Australia - Optus
Hong Kong - CSL
Indonesia - Telkomsel
Korea - SK Telecom
Macau - CTM
Malaysia - Maxis
Philippines - Globe Telecom
Singapore - Sing Tel
Taiwan - Taiwan Mobile
Thailand - AIS
China - China Unicom
To know more, Airtel users can SMS "DROAM" to 121 OR visit www.airtel.in/bridgedataroam
