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Srikapardhi September 26th, 2014 12:13 PM 54 COMMENTS

Airtel customers feel cheated with misleading 3G recharge benefit on its official portal

As a general practice users usually believe the information provided on official website regarding the offers and benefits obtained on different recharges and blindly recharge without thinking twice. But in a distrustful incident, we have received woes from customers and have also experienced it ourselves that Airtel’ s official portal Airtellive.com have misleading information regarding recharge benefits which differs from what users get after recharge. In a similar case reported,... Read More

Mahit September 24th, 2014 2:11 PM 60 COMMENTS

Top 5 reasons why you shouldn’t go for an Airtel 4G Dongle in Bangalore

Airtel is the first operator to come up with actual 4G LTE services in India and just like 3G, 4g services have not taken off and is growing at a rather sluggish pace. I have been using Airtel 4G via Huawei LTE dongle for the past 6 months as my primary source of Internet and have opted the Rs 999 10GB Unlimited Plan. Here are some reasons why you should be... Read More

Srikapardhi September 23rd, 2014 5:34 PM 21 COMMENTS

Airtel hikes it’s 2G Data packs for Postpaid users, Now 2GB Data Cost Rs.278 approx

No doubt Operators hiked the 2G data tariffs for prepaid users. Being on the other side of the line, i can only guess the actual intention may vary depending on various scenarios for incurring costs, countering usage of IM applications or to promote 3G. In a general practice by operators, now considering the hike scenario no relaxation is given for postpaid users as well. After prepaid 2G data hikes, Airtel... Read More

Asif Iqbal September 22nd, 2014 5:37 PM 9 COMMENTS

Airtel and Google working to allow carrier billing for Play Store in India

Buying applications on Google Play Store is set to get easier for Indian subscribers who do not own credit cards as they won’t be required to use a credit card for purchasing content if Airtel successfully strikes a deal with the search giant. Only two percent of India's population use Credit Cards so Airtel, which is India’s largest telecom carrier, wants to provide the option of carrier billing to Android... Read More

Srikapardhi September 21st, 2014 12:48 PM 33 COMMENTS

Airtel Now Offering upto Rs.50 advance balance loan

Operators generally take less risk while giving advance balance loans or data balance credits to users. It is in a general practice that very less talk balance or Data balance will be given as advance loan to users based on their age on network and usage patterns while the same will be recovered from them in their next recharge along with considerable charges incurred to provide service on emergency. Reliance has... Read More

Chethan S September 9th, 2014 9:26 PM 9 COMMENTS

Airtel India’s Opportunism: Spend on Premium SMS to protect your Privacy

Twitter was rife with tweets about an SMS that was supposedly sent by Airtel that demanded subscribers to send SMS at premium rate of Rs. 3 to remain private. The SMS read like this: It was later confirmed authentic on twitter by Airtel Presence: The Opportunistic Move Now we understand that DOT has mandated telcos to publish subscriber information online. This is okay as BSNL has been publishing telephone directories... Read More

Mahit September 2nd, 2014 6:45 PM 15 COMMENTS

Airtel leads the league when it comes to Highest Rural Subscribers Base, for the month of July 2014

It is a well-known fact that phones have become an integral part of Humans lifestyle be it the corporates in Metros or a farmer in the rural areas. The rural penetration is a quintessential factor as a major chunk of India’s population resides in rural areas. According to TRAI report for the month of July 2014 the total number of GSM Subscribers base in rural India stands at a whopping 371.10million.... Read More

Ritij September 2nd, 2014 12:52 PM 12 COMMENTS

Airtel launches Wynk Music service for access to unlimited free songs

Airtel has just launched Wynk which is a music streaming application. It features 1.7 million songs across Indian and International music. You can stream and download songs by genres, moods, artists or tune into one of the many Radio channels it has on offer. It is an ad free application. You can further subscribe to Wynk Plus or Wynk Freedom to get unlimited downloads and get access to music offline... Read More

Mahit August 29th, 2014 4:33 PM 32 COMMENTS

In Depth Review: Airtel 4G Dongle along with Speed test after throttling

Airtel has been the forerunner when it comes to 4G LTE technologies in India. Airtel has been offering huge discounts and incentives on new connections and is also offering a buyback scheme for 3G dongles. The 4G coverage is also increasing and Airtel are focusing on bringing this technology across Tier 2 cities. We review the Airtel 4G dongle in Bangalore and see if it is a viable and affordable... Read More

Chethan S August 17th, 2014 10:13 AM 18 COMMENTS

Airtel’s Blooper: Uses Vodafone Connection to Demonstrate Airtel 4G

In what may be termed as a blooper in terms of advertising standards, Airtel's video used for 4G demonstration purpose uses an iPhone with Vodafone connection. The video uploaded in February 2014 has received over 13k views on YouTube so far and is also present in Airtel's official 4G page! Screenshots On YouTube In the video though Airtel is shown beside the signal strength indicator, under iPhone settings it is... Read More

Chethan S August 8th, 2014 9:43 PM 32 COMMENTS

Airtel’s New 3G Data Pack to Cost 46% More in Kerala, Older Packs see Heavy Validity Reduction

TelecomTALK has learnt from exclusive sources that Airtel will be introducing two new 3G data packs in Kerala circle. In addition to this the existing 3G packs will see a heavy reduction in terms of validity. It may be remembered that Airtel uses ICRA to provide 3G to customers in Kerala and the 3G data packs used to cost 40% more during debut. Airtel New 3G Pack Details Old New... Read More

Asif Iqbal August 8th, 2014 12:29 AM 9 COMMENTS

Airtel To offer 5GB of free 4G data for Samsung S5 4G LTE (G900I)

Indian operators are ramping up the spread of 4G networks throughout India. Airtel is going one step ahead by offering free 4G data for the recently launched Samsung Galaxy S5 4G LTE (G900I) in India. According to our sources, says Airtel will be offering 5GB of free 4G data per month for 2 months to all the Samsung S5 4G LTE (G9000I) users in India, though, there is no official confirmation from Airtel yet. We would advise you to check... Read More