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Ritij November 4th, 2014 7:57 PM 2 COMMENTS

Naidu commends Sunil Mittal’s efforts in restoring services in Andhra Pradesh

Andhra Pradesh's Chief Minister N Chandrababu Naidu has written a letter to the Bharti Airtel top gun Sunil Mittal appreciating and thanking him for his efforts in restoring the telecom services in the Hudhud affected Andhra Pradesh. The CM had questioned telecom operators regarding restoration of the services in the area and had gone on to accuse them of being only profit driven after the services weren't restored even after a... Read More

Ritij November 4th, 2014 5:55 AM 16 COMMENTS

Postpaid rentals increased by 12% in NCR by Airtel

Airtel has just increased the postpaid rentals by 12% in the NCR region. The hike has been for low rental plans. "Effective 3-Dec 2014, bill plan rental for your Airtel mobile will be revised from Rs. 199 per month to Rs. 224 per month," is what the country’s largest telecom operator communicated to its customers. Upon being contact, Airtel said that it had increased the tariffs of only a few of the low cost... Read More

Apurva October 30th, 2014 9:03 PM 14 COMMENTS

Is Airtel getting too ambitious with 4G?

At the Code/Mobile conference in Half Moon Bay, California, Airtel's Chief Product Office Anand Chandrasekaran disclosed that Airtel hopes to get 40 to 50 percent of its revenue from data, and more specifically from 4G. "For every operator in the US, 50 percent of their revenues is from data. Part of my journey is getting that 12 percent (current data revenue percentage) to 40 or 50, through 4G and apps... Read More

Mahit October 20th, 2014 2:23 PM 22 COMMENTS

TT Exclusive: Airtel introduces 3G Infinity a feature that carries forward your unused Prepaid 3G Data

Airtel has come up with a new 3G scheme that carry forwards your 3G prepaid balance if recharged before the pack expires. The recharge has to be done via airtel online recharge portal. I had around 800MB of Data left in my device and then recharged Rs 102 which added up 300MB to the tally and the total usage was brought to 1200 MB, another good part is that it... Read More

Mahit October 20th, 2014 7:26 AM 22 COMMENTS

Airtel comes up with misleading info about Chromebook and shies away from taking responsibility

Right information is something that companies can't go wrong with. Misleading information will not just become a nuisance for the consumers but they also start spinning a negative opinion about the Telecom operators. I was on a lookout for a good netbook as my Windows machine had become lethargic and sometimes used to just go spoof without saving my work. My main requirement was excellent battery life, lightness and fast... Read More

Apurva October 17th, 2014 2:06 PM 4 COMMENTS

Airtel partners with E-commerce portals to promote Airtel Money aggressively

It appears that Airtel has partnered with E-Commerce sites to promote Airtel Money, its mobile wallet service. The complete list of E-Commerce sites and services it now supports can be found here. Airtel has also started aggressively promoting Airtel Money by informing its subscribers about various discounts it offers on partner sites if one uses Airtel Money as their mode of payment. It isn't surprising that Airtel is pushing Airtel... Read More

Chethan S October 16th, 2014 3:06 PM 9 COMMENTS

Airtel Launches Prepaid 2G services in Zero Point and Tenga Valley

Bharti Airtel has rolled out its 2G services on prepaid in Bomdila, Jameri, Zero Point and Tenga Valley making it the first private telecom operator to set foot in the region. Airtel Customers can now remain connected to their loved ones by recharging with packs priced as low as Rs. 10 and enjoy never before mobile services with Airtel's world class voice and data offerings. C Surendran, CEO - North Eastern... Read More

Rudradeep Biswas October 10th, 2014 11:43 AM 21 COMMENTS

Government of Telangana launches “Public Wi-Fi” powered by Airtel, Offers 750 Mb per day per user

The Government of Telangana and Bharti Airtel, today launched the State’s first “Public Wi-fi”. This has been launched as a pilot in 17 tested hotspot locations in the hub of Hi-tech city enabling customers across operators to avail public Wi-Fi and enjoy internet services of upto 750 Mb per day per user. To begin with, these public Wi-Fi hotspots have been set up between Cyber towers to Madhapur Police Station,... Read More

Mahit October 8th, 2014 2:15 PM 10 COMMENTS

Delayed Airtel and Vodafone spectrum allocation, How will it affect the customers?

The ongoing spectrum battle has reached a new pinnacle with the countries biggest operators Airtel and Vodafone battling out with Department of Telecommunications (DoT) for not facilitating the extension. The spectrum was won by the operators way back in February but still has not been allocated to the operators causing a delay of more than six month. The licence is set to expire next month. It is believed the telcos... Read More

Srikapardhi October 6th, 2014 12:40 PM 26 COMMENTS

Airtel starts offering unlimited Free Youtube Browsing ?

Looks like operators are trying to utilise their network resources optimally especially during nights. Operators have already started offering night plans to users across circles and now Airtel has started offering an unlimited night Youtube pack. We have not yet tested or analysed how effective this pack is as it is available only across selected circles. We have received this information from one of our West UP reader who was able to... Read More

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