Earlier today, Bharti Airtel announced that the company wouldn't be charging for roaming services in India from April 1, 2017,. The company will be making India a roaming free country and the services include free incoming and outgoing calls, SMS, and more importantly free roaming on mobile data as well. No one expected this one was coming from the India's largest... Read More
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. Airtel announces free incoming calls, SMS, and no charges for... Read More
India's largest telecom network, Bharti Airtel is offering mobile data in many ways. It was just yesterday we reported that the company is offering the industry's cheapest 4G Hotspot device and now, we have yet another device, namely, Airtel 4G Home Wi-Fi. However, this 4G Home Wi-Fi hotspot is entirely different from 4G Hotspot and offers more features, but has its own set of disadvantages as well. A little five... Read More
Of late, Airtel has been working hard to bring new offers to the consumers primarily to combat Reliance Jio as well. Till date, we have seen various offers from the India's largest telecom network in the mobile data and voice calls space, but now the company is vying to take on the rivals with its 4G Hotspot device. Airtel has slashed the price of its much popular Airtel 4G Hotspot... Read More
Bharti Airtel, following Jio’s Prime subscription announcement, seems to have silently decreased the validity of RC149 to 16 days from 28 days. For the uninitiated, Airtel’s Rs. 149 data plan previously used to offer 600MB of 3G/4G data with 28 days validity. However, the revised plan now offers the same amount of data with only 16 days validity which not to mention is nearly half of what users to get... Read More
India's first payments bank, Airtel Payments Bank today announced that it had opened over 150,000 savings accounts in West Bengal since its official launch back in January 2017. The services went live in West Bengal along with other 28 states at the start of 2017. Airtel claims that approximately 70 percent of these accounts have been opened in rural areas of West Bengal. Airtel has been enjoying tremendous success with their... Read More
India's leading telco Bharti Airtel said that it has entered into a definitive agreement with Telenor South Asia Investments to acquire the latter's India operations, Telenor Communications Private Limited or Telenor India. The move will allow Airtel to further bolster its strong spectrum footprint in these seven circles, with the addition of 43.4 MHz spectrum in the 1800 MHz band. Also, Airtel will also be able to expand its user... Read More
Bharti Airtel, India's top telecom operator, has completed the acquisition of Augere Wireless India Private Limited, which holds 20 MHz of spectrum in 2,300 Mhz band spectrum in Madhya Pradesh circle. The Sunil Mittal-led telecom operator had last year inked a definitive agreement to acquire 100 per cent equity stake in Augere Wireless. Various media reports valued the deal at around Rs 150 crore. In a BSE filing on Thursday,... Read More
Bharti Airtel has recently launched its V-Fiber broadband services in few cities in India. At the time of its inception in October 2016, Airtel claimed that the services would be rolled out in 87 major cities in the country. The service is currently available in the eight cities of Chennai, Mumbai, Bangalore, Hyderabad, Pune, Ahmedabad, Bhopal, and Indore. The company will soon expand the V-Fiber portfolio to 10 more cities,... Read More
India's leading telecom operator Bharti Airtel is reportedly planning to poach customers of Vodafone and Idea Cellular, which are in talks of merging operations in the country. Mint on Friday reported that Bharti Airtel is planning to bring many innovative schemes and tariff plans in at least six circles where the Vodafone-Idea combined entity will exceed the 50% subscriber and revenue market limit, and as per regulations the entity will... Read More
As per the latest data revealed by Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (TRAI), Bharti Airtel, at 8.43Mbps, records highest average download speed on a mobile network for January 2017. It is worth mentioning that Airtel’s average mobile data speed nearly doubled to 8.42Mbps from 4.68Mbps. Also, it is the third time in the past five months (since September) when Airtel topped the TRAI’s average download speed report. Reliance Jio’s average... Read More
Bharti Airtel, India’s largest telecom company today said that they rolled out an upgraded 4G network across 400 towns of Maharashtra and Goa to deliver best-in-class mobile network experience to customers. Airtel already has 4G services in Maharashtra and Goa, but with the upgraded 4G network, the company is promising uninterrupted HD video streaming along with improved data speeds and better indoor and outdoor network reception. Airtel has deployed a... Read More
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wish they had kept the 239Rs plan but idk Im not an economist ,im just glad Jio is still offering…
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Lol I don't understand that either, also buying mmWave in 2022 when they can't launch that till 2030.
