Earlier this month, Bharti Airtel launched VoLTE services for its Mumbai subscribers. At the same time, Airtel confirmed that it will expand the VoLTE support to other cities such as Chennai and Kolkata very soon, eventually rolling out across the country by March 2018. Industry sources now say Chennai is next in the queue for Airtel VoLTE services. Airtel VoLTE tests are in advanced stages in Chennai, and the services... Read More
Bharti Airtel, India's largest telecommunications service provider, today announced the deployment of India’s first state-of-the-art Massive Multiple-Input Multiple-Output (MIMO) technology which is a key enabler for 5G networks in the future. As one of the few commercial deployment of Massive MIMO globally, the deployment puts India on the world map of technology advancement and the digital revolution. Airtel is starting with the first round of deployment in Bangalore & Kolkata... Read More
Leading telecom operator, Bharti Airtel has revised its plans for some of its users. In order to combat Reliance Jio, Airtel is now offering 4GB data per day with one of its tariff plans. However, do make a note that these new plans are valid only for select customers. But, at least one below-mentioned plan is valid for every user. Airtel is now offering a Rs. 999 plan, under which... Read More
India's leading telecom operator, Bharti Airtel recently sent out a message to its subscribers in Hyderabad saying that the operator is upgrading the network infrastructure in the city for improving the customer experience. And now, we have noticed that the data speeds in the city are increased drastically when compared to what we used to get a month ago. Let' speak about the data speeds first. A month ago, I... Read More
So, it finally happened. The obvious thing which all the top telecom operators never wanted, but the new entrant wanted. Yesterday, The Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (Trai) slashed the Interconnect Usage Charges (IUC) to 6 paise per minute, down from the earlier 14 paise per minute. In addition, Trai also announced that the new IUC charges will be effective from October 1, 2017, and they would be ultimately reduced... Read More
Indian Telecom sector body, Cellular Operators Association of India (COAI) today released the latest telecom subscriber numbers for the month ending August 2017. As per the data released by COAI, India’s private telecom service providers have a total of 948.54 million subscribers, including those of the new entrant Reliance Jio’s till the end of July 2017 (As per TRAI Data). Amongst the individual companies, Bharti Airtel continued to hold the... Read More
Airtel Payments Bank, the digital payments platform on Sunday announced the integration of Unified Payments Interface (UPI) on its digital platform. By integration UPI on its platform, Airtel Payments Bank becomes the first payments bank in India to offer UPI services on its platform. "This would allow all our 20 million bank customers to create their personalised UPI handles on the Airtel app and enable them to make digital payments... Read More
Bharti Airtel has come up with a new free data offer for its postpaid users, after the Airtel Monsoon offer expiry. This new offer from Airtel gives up to 60GB free data for Airtel postpaid users for downloading and installing the Airtel TV application, under which the operator is providing Live TV services. Airtel doubles down the data from the previous 30GB and makes it 60GB. Earlier, it was for... Read More
Bharti Airtel, a couple of days ago became the second Indian telecom operator after Reliance Jio to offer VoLTE services in the country. Although Reliance Jio is offering pan-India VoLTE services, Bharti Airtel is rolling it out in a phased manner, meaning Airtel VoLTE services will go live in select cities first. The pan-India roll out for the same is expected to be done by March 2018. So, for now,... Read More
Bharti Airtel, India’s largest telecommunications service provider, and SK Telecom, Korea’s largest telecommunications company and a world leader in building cutting edge networks, today announced a strategic partnership under which, Airtel will leverage SK Telecom’s expertise to build the most advanced telecom network in India. The partnership will work across several areas including developing bespoke software to dramatically improve network experience, leveraging advanced digital tools including machine learning, big data... Read More
Indian telecom leader, Bharti Airtel has accused Reliance Jio of trying to mislead the telecom authorities to bring down the interconnect usage charge (IUC) through a misinformation campaign. Just yesterday, Reliance Jio alleged Airtel says that the latter is trying to ‘create a smokescreen to hide its ill-gotten profits' under the current IUC method. However, Airtel on Tuesday alleged that Jio is 'exaggerating and distorting' the figures of India's oldest... Read More
The Interconnect Usage Charges (IUC) war is still on in the country with operators such as Bharti Airtel, Vodafone India, and Idea Cellular battling against the BAK regime proposed by Reliance Jio. Now, the newcomer Reliance Jio has written a letter to Trai saying that Bharti Airtel has wrongly interpreted its proposal to 'create a smokescreen to hide its ill-gotten profits' under the current IUC method. Reliance Jio also urged... Read More
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