Airtel today announced the commercial launch of its high speed 4G services (also called LTE) in Pondicherry. Airtel has led the 4G story in India, having launched India’s first 4G network in Kolkata in April 2012. On 6th August 2015, Airtel announced that its 4G services were available in 296 towns across India. Prior to that, Airtel had successfully conducted trials of its 4G services in select cities and leveraged... Read More
To promote "4G at 3G rates", Airtel has silently revised data plans for its prepaid users in Kolkata circle. Prior to this, Airtel was offering separate denominations for 4G and 3G data plans in Kolkata, but in the recent revision they have unified the data plans for 3G & 4G speeds. Check out the revised unified data rates in the table below. Airtel Unified Data Plans with details Price 4G/3G... Read More
Kerala High Court has approved to the consent order given to Reliance Jio Infotech Pvt. Ltd., to use Kerala State Electricity Board’s (KSEB) towers for installation of its optical fibre cables (for 4G services). The Court added that any telecom operator who wishes to bring in 4G services can seek permission to use KSEB towers. The verdict was passed in a petition filed by COAI and its members questioning the... Read More
Bharti Airtel has announced for a 4G Challenge, a test of download speed using Airtel 4G/LTE mobile connection against the speed of mobile internet services offered by other operators. The challenge, open in four cities -- Delhi, Mumbai, Bangalore and Kolkata asks people to try the speed at designated centres, using the mobile devices offered at the centres. The challenge will be entirely conducted by an external agency to ensure... Read More
Bharti Airtel Limited, today announced the commercial launch of its high speed 4G services (also called LTE) in 296 towns across India. This follows the successful trial of services in select cities and the feedback received from customers. Airtel also announced the launch of a new carrier agnostic mobile app – ‘Wynk Movies’ – a first of its kind movie mall that will offer a specially curated library of thousands... Read More
Airtel, today launched 4G trials exclusively for its customers in Warangal as part of the trial offer, Airtel customers in Warangal can now avail a complimentary upgrade to Airtel 4G at 3G prices and experience blazing Airtel 4G speeds. The company will assimilate valuable customer feedback from these early adopters and leverage the initial market response towards strengthening its service experience – thus building a world-class 4G network infrastructure for... Read More
Bharti Airtel which is currently carrying out wide scale 4G LTE trials in Delhi, Mumbai, Chennai, Hyderabad seems to have come across a rather unusual hurdle. The subscribers using Airtel's 4G LTE network on their iPhone 6 are facing connectivity issues which have their roots in the sub bands being used by Airtel for its band 40 TD-LTE (2300MHz). Airtel’s Delhi network that uses the 2300 MHz on TD technology... Read More
Bharti Airtel Limited, today launched 4G trials exclusively for its customers in Shillong. Airtel 4G enables superfast internet speeds and allows customers to enjoy capabilities like high definition video streaming with zero buffering without compromising on the experience. As part of the trial offer, Airtel customers in Shillong can now avail a complimentary upgrade to Airtel 4G at 3G prices and experience blazing Airtel 4G speeds. The company will assimilate... Read More
Today Bharti Airtel has rolled out 4G trials at three places – Manipal, Udupi and Tumkur in Karnataka. The customers in these places can now access superfast internet that will enable them to download up to 10 movies in less than 30 minutes, connect multiple devices or watch HD videos without buffering. As an offer, customer can now avail 4G for the price of 3G. To avail the free upgrade,... Read More
The upcoming 4G rollout in the country by Reliance Jio would entail a fierce battle between Airtel and Jio. While Airtel has been steadily spreading its network in the country, Jio will be looking to disrupt things with its low cost handsets and low cost plans. Airtel doesn't want to be at the receiving end of all this and is getting ready to take on the assault from Reliance Jio.... Read More
According to a research note released by Bank of America Merill Lynch (BofA-ML), the corporate and investment banking division of Bank of America, there are possibilities for Reliance Jio to acquire a VoIP license. However, the operator may not offer free VoIP calls through its service. "Given R-Jio's lack of traditional voice offering and considering that its Vo-LTE (4G) offering may not be mature immediately, we see a possibility that... Read More
Airtel subscribers at Kochi in Kerala have been receiving messages from the operator stating an opportunity to upgrade their mobile connections to 4G SIM for FREE. The message looks like an indication that the operator has launched 4G in the area. To add to it, no documents are required to be submitted for this upgrading. Also, the subscribers can get the SIM card delivered to their houses, if sent a... Read More
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India will get 5G in 2030 for sure. Courtesy Jio. I doubt Airtel will get profitable by then.
2G customer base declining fast and are close to 250 million now. Even those 2G customers aren't shifting to BSNL…
2G came in 1992 (2003 in India) 3G came in 2002 (2009 in India) 4G came in 2012 (Airtel launched…
I really hope BSNL and MTNL improve their network that it atleast become usable. (not expecting high quality or higher…
