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Ria Lakshman May 31st, 2016 12:23 PM 0 COMMENTS

Airtel’s techQ quizzing challenge receives overwhelming response

Airtel’s techQ contest, a national level telecom and technology quiz contest, designed for engineering and technology students attracted over 1600 students from eight leading technology institutes in India, says a release from the company. “Technical education has been a big strength for India, with Indian engineering talent today being an integral part of every top technology company in the world. techQ is Airtel’s endeavor to provide a platform to showcase... Read More

Ria Lakshman May 30th, 2016 6:49 PM 12 COMMENTS

Airtel launches campaigns to promote MyPlan for postpaid users

Airtel has launched extensive campaigns to promote its MyPlan for postpaid users. MyPlan offers the customers the flexibility to create their own plans. “The new campaign is based on a simple consumer insight - that a lot of postpaid mobile users end up with plan benefits that they never fully utilize and end up wasting these benefits month on month. MyPlan addresses this problem by giving customers the freedom to... Read More

Tharun G May 30th, 2016 3:13 PM 19 COMMENTS

Airtel expands its 4G network in Kerala, updates Airtel Leap website showing coverage of newly launched 4G sites in the circle

Bharti Airtel has expanded its 4G network in Kerala by launching 4G service across Kollam, Alappuzha, Kottayam, Palakkad, Malappuram and Kasargod. Earlier, Airtel 4G service was first launched in Kochi followed by Trivandrum, Kozhikode, Thrissur and Kannur. Apart from launching 4G service in new cities, Airtel has significantly expanded 4G network in initial launch cities of Trivandrum and Cochin. Airtel 4G network now covers more than 50% area for Ernakulam and Trivandrum district.... Read More

Srikapardhi May 26th, 2016 6:35 PM 21 COMMENTS

Airtel launches 4G services in Sivakasi and Villupuram

Airtel, today announced the launch of its high speed 4G services in Sivakasi & Villupuram. Now, customers across the state can experience high speed wireless broadband on Airtel 4G and get on to the digital superhighway to enjoy uninterrupted HD video streaming, superfast uploading and downloading of movies, music and images. Airtel 4G is available to customers across a range of smart devices including mobile phones, dongles, 4G hotspots and... Read More

Rudradeep Biswas May 24th, 2016 7:02 PM 30 COMMENTS

Airtel says completes acquistion of Videocon spectrum in six circles

Airtel, the country's leading telco, said that it has completed the acquisition of Videocon’s spectrum in six circles for Rs 4428 crore. Both the companies, in a joint statement, said that all necessary approvals including the conditions stated in the spectrum trading guidelines have been met with. Before the Airtel deal, Idea Cellular, which is India's third largest telco, was in touch with Videocon for a similar deal. However, Idea had... Read More

Imon May 22nd, 2016 6:02 AM 58 COMMENTS

Airtel launches ‘Cyber Cafe’ data packs, offering Unlimited data for 1 hour at Rs 5

After announcing extra data for night usage, telecom major Airtel has now launched 'Cyber Cafe' data pack for prepaid data customers across all circles . 'Cyber Cafe' pack is a new kind of offering from Airtel which will offer unlimited data on 2G network for 1 hour at only Rs 5. Currently Vodafone and Aircel are offering 10-20 mb 2G data at Rs 5. Half of the regular data customers of... Read More

Tharun G May 20th, 2016 5:44 PM 7 COMMENTS

DoT issues new MSC codes to Airtel & Aircel for Tamilnadu and Delhi

The Department of Telecommunications’ (DoT) licensing wing has allocated a new set of MSC codes to Airtel and Aircel for GSM service. The new MSC codes are assigned to operators who have managed to garner a subscriber base of over a million subscribers in their licensed service area. Bharti Airtel Limited was assigned new MSC codes for Tamil Nadu. While Aircel obtained new MSC codes for Delhi Circle. Both operators were allocated... Read More

Imon May 17th, 2016 11:00 AM 16 COMMENTS

Airtel offering 1 GB of 4G data at only Re 1 in Rajasthan ?

Airtel is offering data at a throwaway price to users in a bid to upgrade them to its high speed 4G network. Airtel customers are getting 1 GB of 4G data at only Re 1 in Rajasthan, where the company has 4G network. It has also expanded its 4G network to many cities after the announcement of project Leap. According to some of our readers, on recharge of Re 1,... Read More

Imon May 16th, 2016 6:54 PM 29 COMMENTS

Bharti Airtel’s starts offering ‘Easy SIM Swap’ through My airtel app for easy 4G upgradation

As a part to upgrade customers on 4G network ; country's largest mobile operator Bharti Airtel has now launched 'Easy SIM Swap through mobile app'. With this new feature, Bharti Airtel's both prepaid and postpaid customers across all circles can easily upgrade their SIM to 4G supported USIM through company's My Airtel app. Airtel already offers easy SIM swap through SMS which was quite easy process. But many customers reported they... Read More

Rudradeep Biswas May 12th, 2016 1:21 PM 14 COMMENTS

Airtel announces self-regulation on Quality of Service, to implement 25% more stringent mobile call drop benchmark of 1.5%

Bharti Airtel, today announced a 25% more stringent voluntary benchmark of 1.5% for mobile call drops versus the current TRAI prescribed norm of 2% under the Quality of Service regulations. Based on the calculation of the call drop rate during network busy hour on a monthly average, any amount calculated for exceeding the 1.5% voluntary benchmark, subject to a maximum of INR 100 crores per annum, will be contributed by... Read More

Rudradeep Biswas May 11th, 2016 3:48 PM 13 COMMENTS

Airtel starts offering Double Data for Prepaid Customers

Airtel, today announced the launch of new pre-paid data packs that offer double data benefits to customers. The innovative data packs redefine affordability and offer great value to customers by providing additional data benefits at night, effectively doubling the data limits for customers. With the new packs, customers will be able to save up to 30% on recharges, when compared to existing data packs. Currently, the Rs. 259 pre-paid data... Read More

Rudradeep Biswas May 8th, 2016 3:13 PM 1 COMMENTS

Airtel expands cloud services portfolio with Connexion

Bharti Airtel has launched a new cloud platform, Connexion, and has tied-up with Microsoft Corp. for Microsoft Azure ExpressRoute. Airtel said that its new platform "Connexion" is the best way to maximize network performance over cloud. This, coupled with Azure ExpressRoute, will enable a customer to create a private connection between their infrastructure and Azure data centers. "This platform is the right choice for the service providers and businesses seeking to... Read More