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Rudradeep Biswas June 1st, 2011 5:10 PM 16 COMMENTS

Airtel Ignores Peoples Demand To Come Out Clean On Its Carbon Footprints

Greenpeace activists today gathered outside Bharti Airtel’s headquarters in Gurgaon, following the telecom leader’s failure to respond substantively to specific questions pertaining to reduction in its carbon emissions and shifting to renewable sources of energy to power its network operations, inspite of repeated requests. The activists displayed the sign “Switch off Diesel” at the company headquarters as a reminder of the demand made on the leader to shift. Close to... Read More

P K Tarun June 1st, 2011 3:42 PM 2 COMMENTS

Airtel Mobile Wallet Service Now In Delhi, Noida, Ghaziabad and Faridabad

Airtel today announced the launch of its mobile wallet service - airtel money, for its mobile customers in Delhi, Noida, Ghaziabad and Faridabad. In 2010, Airtel M Commerce Services was granted the license to use the Semi Closed Wallet by the Reserve Bank of India. Aimed at offering customers with an efficient alternative to cash transactions, airtel money will empower its customers with access to a convenient and secure way... Read More

Sanjay May 26th, 2011 5:40 PM 35 COMMENTS

Airtel iPhone4 Plan Details

India’s largest GSM mobile service operator Bharti airtel all set to launch iPhone 4 in India on May 27 with a reverse subsidy pricing model, allowing airtel customers to recover the upfront cost of their iPhone 4 on selected plans. airtel will provide customers with a range of flexible 3G service plans for both post-paid and prepaid mobile customers. Following an upfront payment of Rs. 34,500 for the 16GB model... Read More

Rudradeep Biswas May 22nd, 2011 4:09 PM 2 COMMENTS

Airtel and LNCT Group Join Hands With Mobile Monday Indore

Mobile Monday, an international forum for developers of mobile Value Added Services and mobile technology professionals, organized a 1-day conference VAS’o’Mania realizing the VAS opportunity, in association with Bharti Airtel Ltd and LNCT Group of Colleges. VAS’o’Mania also marked the launch of the Indore Chapter of Mobile Monday.Value Added Services have gained a huge significance in the global mobile telephone industry in the recent past. With newer Value Added Services... Read More

Sanjay May 20th, 2011 12:43 PM 10 COMMENTS

Airtel Offers Unlimited FREE BlackBerry Service for 2 Months

In an attempt to boost the Blackberry Mobile services, Bharti Airtel India’s largest GSM mobile service operator today announced the launch of FREE Unlimited BlackBerry Service offer for 2 months for its postpaid subscribers. Before you jump with joy, let me clarify it-The service is only for new Blackberry service subscribers and available on BlackBerry smart phones with Airtel Postpaid connections. As a promotional offer, the monthly service charge for... Read More

Sanjay May 19th, 2011 6:46 PM 86 COMMENTS

India Adds 11.1 Million GSM Subscribers in April – IDEA Cellular Leads

India’s leading Mobile Service operator Idea Cellular has added a total of 2.45 million GSM subscribers which is the highest number of new mobile subscriber additions in the month of April 2011. Idea Cellular’s GSM subscriber base now reached 91.9 million, as per the COAI data. Cellular Operators Association of India (COAI) today released the GSM subscriber base for April 2011 and, quite expectantly, new additions continue at an average... Read More

P K Tarun May 18th, 2011 11:48 PM 18 COMMENTS

Breaking News : Airtel Pulling Out of Call at Home Service

Looks like things are not going well with Airtel ,starting July 1st Airtel Call home Service would be in history. As per airtel they claim it as unforeseen circumstances and cites that Airtel Call Home will not be able to extend its services from 30th June 2011 (2400 hrs)onwards. While on the other end Airtel is also recommending all its Call Home user to consume available talk time and states... Read More

Sanjay May 17th, 2011 4:58 PM 12 COMMENTS

Airtel 3G services Now in Shimla – Himachal Pradesh

Bharti Airtel today announced the launch of 3G Mobile and Data services in north India’s summer capital – Shimla in Himachal Pradesh circle. Airtel 3G services launched in Shimla today by flagging off Airtel 3G mobike rally in the city. Aimed at empowering customers in Shimla with the ability to get a first-hand experience of the exciting capabilities that 3G services can deliver. The operator also set up five Airtel... Read More

P K Tarun May 17th, 2011 12:59 PM 21 COMMENTS

Airtel Launches USSD Based Facebook Access Service In India

Airtel today announced that starting today, its 150 million plus customers in India can now simply dial *325# (and “*fbk#” for non-qwerty mobile handsets) to access Facebook without subscribing to data plans. To deliver this, Airtel has launched the world’s first USSD-based service innovation that will allow its mobile customers to update their Facebook status messages, view / comment on / ‘Like’ news feed, post on friends’ walls, find /... Read More

Rudradeep Biswas May 17th, 2011 12:38 PM 2 COMMENTS

Airtel Dedicates Support To 108 Emergency Services

Airtel has dedicated its support to the 108 Emergency Services run by GVK EMRI and Govt. of Chhattisgarh. Airtel will be sending awareness SMSs and business card of the phone number ‘1-0-8’ saved as ‘108 Emergency Services’ to all the Airtel customers in districts where 108 is operational. ‘108 Emergency Services’, currently providing Emergency Management Services through its state-of-the-art Emergency Response Centre established in Raipur, Chhattisgarh. The 24 x 7,... Read More

Anirban Mukherjee May 16th, 2011 1:41 AM 51 COMMENTS

Airtel Launches RCV37, Local Calls Now At 35p

Looks like no single operator is interested to let its customers to use the power of MNP for once. Thanks to MNP, now biggies like Airtel, Vodafone also has registered their name in tariff war. Few days ago we have brought the news that Vodafone launched its Bounus Crad of Rs.39 for lowering local call as low as 35p/Min. Now, it’s the time of Airtel launching the RCV of Rs.37.... Read More

Sanjay May 12th, 2011 1:11 PM 28 COMMENTS

The Wave is here – This Time It’s Airtel’s Logo Which Gets Names The Wave

Airtel today introduced Wave as the name for the new Airtel symbol. Crowd sourced through a six month long on line contest, this truly brought the winner "closer to his dream’ thereby bringing alive the brand promise of ‘dil jo chahey paas laye’. The name game online contest was initiated by Airtel in November 2010, inviting customers to recommend a name for the company’s new logo. (more…) Read More