August 14th, 2013 12:28 PM 5 COMMENTS

Bharti Airtel Ties up with IRCTC For Rail Ticket Bookings through ‘airtel Money’

India's largest mobile service provider Bharti Airtel today announced that it has partnered with IRCTC - Indian Railways Catering and Tourism Corporation to offer rail ticket bookings through airtel Money. IRCTC mobile ticket bookings through "airtel Money" service works across all mobile devices (basic phone to smartphones), does not involve any mobile Internet / data or SMS charges. It uses a simple USSD (Unstructured Supplementary Service Data) technology that prompts... Read More

August 10th, 2013 1:16 AM 46 COMMENTS

4G India: News Round-up – Reliance Jio, Airtel and Aircel

Reliance Jio Infocomm's 4G project gets a green signal in Kolkata metro areas following Mukesh Ambani met West Bengal's CM Mamta Banerjee in Bengal Indistry Summit held in Mumbai few days back. RJIL asked for permission to Kolkata Municipal Corporation to lay optic fibers across the metro last year and had metro KMC officials at least four times but it did not work. However it seems now the roadblock has... Read More

July 26th, 2013 12:11 PM 1 COMMENTS

Connect Bangladesh Faster: Bharti Airtel’s Terrestrial OFC Network Goes Live

Continuing its effort to bring world class of communications Indian telecom giant Bharti Airtel has lit up operations of its high capacity terrestrial optical fiber link between India and Bangladesh. The link, which extends from Bongaon in West Bengal (India) to the Petrapole-Benapole border, will enhance voice and data connectivity between the two countries as well as transit traffic between Bangladesh and the rest of the world. The link will... Read More

July 22nd, 2013 3:44 PM 2 COMMENTS

Airtel Introduces Special Offers for Ramzan

Airtel today announced the launch of exciting products for the Holy season of Ramzan. Airtel prepaid customers across West Bengal will now be able to use their mobile phones to listen to holy recitals of Namaz, Naad, Hidayat and much more and experience LIVE Namaz from the shrineat Mecca by just dialing 552786 on a one time activation charge of Rs.5 which will be chargeable at Rs.3 per day thereafter.... Read More

July 21st, 2013 11:04 AM 4 COMMENTS

4G Round-up: Reliance Jio, Airtel, ZTE & More

Reliance Jio Gets 6 Months Extension of Mobile Numbers to Keep Testing VoLTE Voice over 4G or LTE becomes more and more important to Reliance Jio Infocomm, as they asked for extension of another 6 months to keep testing VoLTE over its networks. The telecom arm of Mukesh Ambani owned Reliance Industries asked for allocation of 10,000 mobile numbers to test voice calls on its LTE-TD/4G network in October last... Read More

July 19th, 2013 9:58 AM 220 COMMENTS

Airtel Slashes 3G Data Rates ; Offers 1 GB 3G Data for Rs.124

Just a day after Reliance reduced its 3G data rates for prepaid and postpaid customers, Bharti Airtel seem to have followed suit by slashing its 3G rates, thus bringing it on a par with 2G data tariffs. Under the new 3G plan by airtel, users can enjoy 1 GB 3G data at Rs.124 for 1 month. Although the plan has not been officially revealed by operator yet, it  is expected... Read More

July 19th, 2013 2:33 AM 10 COMMENTS

Airtel Completes 9 Years of its Hello Tune Service

Introduced by Airtel in India, the popular Hello tune services complete 9 years of their presence in the country. Over the years they have become more personalized and successfully acquired 50 million users in the Indian market thereby registering 20% growth year on year. The service behind the popular Hello Tunes is the Caller ring back tone service (CRBT), first deployed by South Korean Telecom, which made a use of... Read More

July 5th, 2013 5:39 PM 7 COMMENTS

Huawei and Airtel offer Free 3G Internet Access to EasyCabs Passengers in Delhi

Bharti Airtel and leading 3G data card maker Huawei join hands and announced a new exciting FREE high speed 3G Internet offer for the people of Delhi - NCR circle using EasyCabs radio taxi service. As part of the joint offer, the passengers of EasyCabs in Delhi and NCR circle can enjoy a high-speed on-line Airtel 3G experience while on-the-move at FREE of cost. At present, the passengers in Delhi... Read More

July 1st, 2013 11:50 AM 174 COMMENTS

Airtel Offers Free Incoming Calls While on Roaming, Plan Start At Rs.5 (Prepaid and Postpaid)

India's largest mobile service provider Bharti Airtel today introduced FREE Incoming calls on National Roaming Plan for its prepaid customers across India at Rs.5 per day. With this plan Outgoing calls at 1.5p/sec and all other rates and benefits same as base plan on which customer is currently on. Only change is Free for all Incoming Calls while roaming. To Activate this plan Airtel prepaid customers needs to send an... Read More

June 26th, 2013 2:23 PM 10 COMMENTS

Airtel Launches “Free Zone”, Offers Google Services (Gmail, Search, Google+) at Zero Data Cost

Airtel and Google today announced the launch of Free Zone powered by Google, which will give Airtel mobile customers access to mobile web search and feature-phone-friendly versions of Gmail and Google+ in India. The first page of a website linked from search results is provided at no data cost. Airtel mobile customers will be able to access the following services from mobile phone browsers through Airtel Free Zone powered by... Read More

June 24th, 2013 11:43 AM 15 COMMENTS

Airtel Introduces New 4G Plans Starting at Rs. 450

Airtel today announced the introduction of all new plans for its Airtel 4G services in Bangalore, Kolkata, Pune and Chandigarh. Starting from monthly rent of Rs 450. While the Rs.450, Rs.650 and Rs.750 Airtel 4G plans offer data quota (GBs) at rents similar to 3G plans at superfast 4G speeds - the plans starting Rs.999 offer accelerated data benefits at rate of Rs.100/GB. New Airtel 4G plans MRP (in Rs)... Read More

June 21st, 2013 10:25 AM 3 COMMENTS

Airtel launches Smart Women Safe Women Initiative

Airtel undertook a unique and remarkable initiative named Airtel Smart Women Safe Women, to promote the usage of mobile services for personal safety among working women and female students in Indore city. As part of the initiative, Airtel Smart Women Safe Women, the women employees visited 15 different locations and demonstrated the use of - Airtel Emergency Alert and Airtel Call Manager service. These services can be highly useful in... Read More

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Shivraj Roy :

um no no i meant how 3500mhz doesnt penetrate through walls and such

First 6G Deployments Are Expected in 2030: Ericsson Mobility Report

rahul_yadav :

That not gonna happed instead Government should mandate all new phone (Smartphone & Keypad phone) should come with 4G Network…

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TheAndroidFreak :

Target is mid May for 1L sites. I don't have any doubt that it won't be covered. I am keeping…

Jio, Airtel, and Vodafone Idea See Subscriber Losses, While BSNL…

TheAndroidFreak :

2G should be shut down immediately by all three operators. BSNL should fast track LTE on 700Mhz and 900Mhz bands…

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TheAndroidFreak :

6G frequency should be around 7-8Ghz and bandwidth should be atleast 500Mhz per operator and sub-Ghz bandwidth should be 30-40Mhz(600/450Mhz).

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