At a time when Mukesh Ambani's Jio has gone all in on VoLTE to deliver voice calling on its end to end IP network, and younger brother's Rcom planning to follow suit by year end, largest telecom operator Airtel isn't much interested in deploying VoLTE solution anytime soon. During an analyst call, answering questions on VoLTE, Gopal Vittal, MD and CEO - India and South Asia - Bharti Airtel said... Read More
Airtel has launched its 4G services in Baharampur of West Bengal yesterday. The network expansion in rest of West Bengal counts Baharampur as second city to get Airtel 4G after Kharagpur. It should be noted that Airtel launched country's first 4G network in Kolkata in April 2012 and then in August 2016 Airtel started expanding 4G network in the West Bengal circle as part of the company's Project Leap -... Read More
Airtel, today announced that it has deployed 4G Advanced technology (carrier aggregation across TD LTE and LTE FDD) in Mumbai. The deployment will result in a superior 4G experience for Airtel customers through considerably faster data speeds and better coverage – indoors and outdoors. Customers with mobile devices that support 4G Advanced will be able to enjoy 4G data speeds of up to 135 Mbps. Under the carrier aggregation deployment,... Read More
Airtel has announced the launch of its ‘India with Airtel’ a bouquet of end-to-end connectivity solutions for companies looking to set up businesses in India. India with Airtel offers end –to-end telecom and connectivity solutions to companies under one roof, thereby eliminating the challenge of dealing with multiple vendors and integration issues associated with it. This solution is aimed at considerably improving the ease of setting up a business in... Read More
Airtel, today said that its Open Network initiative has received good response from customers across the country. Launched in June 2016, the initiative made public Airtel’s entire mobile network information to customers through an interactive online interface and asked them for their feedback to improve the network. Airtel received feedback and suggestions from millions of customers across multiple Open Network touch points - Open Network portal, myAirtel app, Airtel Call... Read More
Ever since Jio entered the telecom market in India, the existing operators are gearing up to compete with Jio's insanely priced 4G packs. The operators like Bharti Airtel and Vodafone India have been slashing their data rates rapidly to counter Jio. In one of the latest moves, Airtel has started offering 3G speeds to 2G data packs. Today, we got an SMS on our Airtel prepaid number, which touts the 2G... Read More
Bharti Airtel has started rolling out the Aadhaar-based e-KYC solution in stores across Delhi NCR. The solution will be extended to other places in the upcoming days. With the Aadhaar-based e-KYC solution, the customer purchasing a SIM card can avail an instant verification process. The customer will have to submit/verify their Biometrics (iris scan / fingerprints) at the Point of Sale. The biometrics data will be matched with the UIDAI... Read More
Manish Prakash, Bharti Airtel's director of strategic alliances, has reportedly quit the company and will soon join Telenor Group as the head of enterprise. According to an Economic Times report, Prakash, who is currently serving his notice period at Bharti Airtel, will join Telenor in September to spearhead the group's enterprise or B2B business globally. The development follows a recent restructuring at Bharti Airtel under which the telco consolidated its... Read More
Airtel, customers across UP East can now switch their existing 2G/3G SIMs with 4G ready USIMs completely free of cost at any Airtel store/ retailer in the city. With the USIM upgrade, customers can continue enjoying their existing 2G/3G services, while staying ready to experience Airtel 4G from the day of its launch. Shailendra Singh, CEO UP & Uttarakhand said, “We are inviting all our customers to be 4G ready with... Read More
Airtel, today announced that customers purchasing Samsung Galaxy J series mobile device, can enjoy 10 GB Airtel 4G data at the price of 1GB 4G data. Available with most of the Samsung Galaxy J series devices, under the offer, new and existing Airtel prepaid users can avail 10GB of 4G data at a nominal cost of Rs. 250. To claim the offer, customers will simply have log on to www.offers.airtel.com... Read More
The Singaporean telecommunications company Singtel has announced its plan to buy an additional 7.39% stake in Bharti Telecom Ltd for a cost of $659.5 million. This will raise Singtel’s holding in Bharti Telecom up to 46.39%. Mittal’s family holds the 51% stake in the company. Singtel acquires this 7.39% stake from Singapore-based investment company Temasek owned by the Government of Singapore. The investment comes ahead of Reliance’s Jio’s launch in... Read More
Airtel, today said that customers can switch their existing 2G/3G SIMs with 4G ready USIMs completely free of cost at any Airtel retail store in the state. Airtel plans to launch 4G services in Madhya Pradesh & Chhattisgarh soon. With the USIM upgrade, customers can continue enjoying their existing 2G/3G services, while staying ready to experience Airtel 4G from the day of its launch. Vir Inder Nath, Chief Executive Officer, Madhya... Read More
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It's expected to happen in FY 25-26
600 is out of question as they already own 700, they might go with 1400 for a new 5g frequency.
Might be because of the trial period, not officially launched yet.
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