After being silent for a couple of weeks, Airtel is back with another massive change to counter the incumbent telecom operators. As you all might be aware of, Airtel has a Rs 199 unlimited combo base tariff plan for prepaid customers which goes against Reliance Jio’s Rs 149 tariff plan. … Read More
Bharti Airtel, on Thursday, said that the Unique Identification Authority of India (UIDAI) has allowed India’s leading telco to resume Aadhaar-based eKYC verification for its telecom subscribers till January 10. However, the UIDAI has maintained its ‘suspension’ order on the telco’s payments bank, Airtel Payments Bank, and it will take … Read More
Telecom operator Bharti Airtel’s board today approved the agreement to take over the telecom arm of Tata Teleservices. Back in October 2017, Airtel announced that it’s taking over Tata’s telecom business on a ‘no-debt, no-cash basis,’ since the latter is not able to sustain the current telecom scenario. Both the … Read More
Telecom operators in India continue to revamp their existing plans as well launch new ones in order to retain their customers. After launching several combo plan offers, India’s largest telecom company, Bharti Airtel has rolled out two more affordable data-centric plans at Rs 49 and Rs 157 respectively. Airtel’s Rs 157 … Read More
Aadhaar body, Unique Identification Authority of India (UIDAI) has taken a strong action on Bharti Airtel by suspending its e-KYC license and the license of Airtel Payments Bank. Although the license seise is a temporary one from UIDAI, it indeed has taken a high action on Airtel, at least when … Read More
Leading telecom operator Bharti Airtel today announced the launch of its VoLTE services in Chennai. A few weeks back, we exclusively reported that Airtel is testing VoLTE in Chennai, and the official launch might happen anytime. Airtel VoLTE services are currently present in Mumbai, Madhya Pradesh and Chhattisgarh, Maharashtra & … Read More
Recently, we reported that Bharti Airtel silently slashed the price of the Airtel 4G Hotspot device to compete with Reliance JioFi. Back then, we thought that the price cut is a temporary one. However, Airtel has now sent out a press statement saying that the Airtel 4G Hotspot will now … Read More
Bharti Airtel today announced that an affiliate of Warburg Pincus would acquire up to 20% equity stake in Bharti Telemedia Limited, the DTH arm of Airtel, for approximately USD 350 million. Warburg Pincus is a global private equity firm focused on growth investing. Out of 20% stake, 15% will be … Read More
Bharti Airtel is quickly improving its Airtel TV application to catch up with rival operators in the content space. Airtel has added 150 Live TV channels to the Airtel TV app and increased the total channel count to 303. Currently, Reliance Jio and Vodafone India are the two operators offering … Read More
A couple of days ago, Bharti Airtel announced that it would set up more than 2000 mobile sites in North East India to cover up to 2200 unspecified villages. Today, the Airtel became the first operator to launch its 4G services in the country’s northern frontier of Ladakh region. Residents … Read More
Indian telecom operator Airtel, which has operations in over 17 countries today signed an agreement with the Department of Telecom (DoT) and the Universal Service Obligation Fund (USOF). Under the agreement, Airtel will be offering mobile services in identified uncovered villages and national highways in the North Eastern States of … Read More
Bharti Airtel is aggressively partnering with handset manufacturers to offer bundled data. In a recent move, Airtel collaborated with Chinese brand Honor to offer extra data with the recently launched mid-range smartphone Honor 7X. Airtel is offering up to 90GB free data for the purchasers of Honor 7X, and this … Read More
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