Death of National Roaming Says Bharti Airtel; Makes India a Roaming Free Country

India’s largest telecom network, Bharti Airtel with over 268 million subscribers under their belt today made a big announcement to counterattack the fast growing Reliance Jio. ‘Death of National Roaming’ says Sunil Bharti Mittal, Chairman, Bharti Airtel at an ongoing MWC 2017 Keynote event. In the same event, he also announced some massive changes for international roaming plans as well.

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Airtel announces free incoming calls, SMS, and no charges for outgoing calls while roaming across India and no more data roaming charges as well. With this, Airtel mobile customers will be able to carry their numbers across India and the world and stay connected all the time without having to worry about high call/data charges. Bill shocks will now be a thing of the past.

Starting April 1, 2017, Airtel customers roaming within India will enjoy free incoming calls/SMS, and there will be no premium on outgoing calls allowing them to speak freely wherever they are within the country. Also, there will be no additional data charges on national roaming. Home data packs for customers will apply even while they roam across India.

Gopal Vittal, MD & CEO (India & South Asia), Bharti Airtel said, “This marks the death of national roaming and the whole country will now be like a local network for our customers, who will not have to think twice before making or receiving calls or using data while traveling outside their home base. Airtel has again set the benchmark in delivering best in class value backed by a great network experience.”

Speaking about the global roaming changes, Airtel has already launched some affordable international roaming packs for all the major countries across the globe. These packs come with convenient validity for one day, ten days, and 30 days. At the same, all the plans offer a lot of benefits including free incoming calls, SMS, calling minutes and texts both to India and the local country as well. Moreover, all the packs do offer some good amount of data always to stay connected.