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Sanjay March 26th, 2013 3:20 PM 59 COMMENTS

Airtel Introduces 40 Mbps speed on Broadband to Hyderabad city

Airtel today became the first operator to launch Broadband plans on VDSL technology at speed of 40Mbps for customers in Hyderabad. VDSL is the newest and most advanced standard of Broadband wireline communications. In line with their data usage and requirements, Airtel customers can now choose from an array of tariff plans. A. Ultrasonic 3999 offers 200 GB data usage along with 2000 free voice minutes B. Ultrasonic 3299 offers... Read More

Rudradeep Biswas March 21st, 2013 2:00 PM 20 COMMENTS

Airtel Offers 3G Dongle & 2GB Data for Rs 450 for MTS MBlaze Users

In an order to tap inactive MTS Dongle (MBrowse & MBlaze) users, country's largest mobile operator Airtel is offering an awesome offer in those circles MTS shut down services. Customers have to pay just Rs 450 to get Airtel 3G dongle free and 2GB of 3G data for a month. The offer from Airtel is available for postpaid only - and Airtel adds a cash back of Rs 225 in... Read More

Rudradeep Biswas March 21st, 2013 12:02 PM 0 COMMENTS

SingTel Backs Airtel in Additional Spectrum Allocation Case

Singapore's telecom major SingTel stands beside Bharti Airtel by stating it has full faith in the company’s corporate governance standards under the leadership of Sunil Mittal. Singtel holds about 32 per cent stake in Bharti Airtel. On Tuesday, a special CBI court summoned present and former top honchos of the telecom industry, including Bharti Airtel Chairman and Managing Director Sunil Mittal, for their alleged involvement in additional spectrum allocation in... Read More

Rudradeep Biswas March 20th, 2013 1:49 PM 9 COMMENTS

Exclusive: Airtel to Launch 4G/LTE-TD Services in Chandigarh Today

India's largest mobile operator Bharti Airtel is going to announce its 4G presence in Chandigarh, the capital of Punjab and Haryana today. Though the launch is announced today, the commercial availability is going to commence from 25th of March, 2013. Airtel 4G/LTE-TD network is also available in Mohali and Panchkula. Chandigarh will be the fourth city in the country with LTE network following Kolkata, Bangaluru and Pune where Airtel launched services.... Read More

Rudradeep Biswas March 20th, 2013 11:49 AM 9 COMMENTS

Cat&Mouse Game: Airtel Got Stay Order to Continue 3G in 7 Circles

As we shared earlier that DoT ordered Airtel to stop 3G services in 7 circles where Airtel is offering 3G via ICRA with Vodafone and Idea within 72 hours, the cat and mouse game of 3G Roaming continues as Airtel got a breather from court. On 15th March DoT slammed the order on Airtel to shut down controversial 3G roaming services in 7 circles. Airtel went to Delhi High Court... Read More

Rudradeep Biswas March 16th, 2013 3:00 PM 65 COMMENTS

Airtel is Asked to Stop 3G Roaming Services in 7 Circles, DoT Fines Rs 350cr

Government of India has ordered country's largest cellular player Bharti Airtel to stop providing 3G services in Kolkata, Maharastra, Uttar Pradesh East, Kerala, Madhya Pradesh, Gujarat and Haryana and slapped with Rs 350 crore penalty. Airtel, Vodafone India and Idea Cellular partnered to form an alliance to offer pan India 3G services, though none of them has pan India 3G spectrum. DoT tried to close this deal by the three... Read More

Sanjay March 6th, 2013 11:28 AM 15 COMMENTS

Airtel Launches FREE Roaming Scheme For Delhi – NCR Customers Travels to 6 States

India's largest mobile service operator Bharti Airtel, today announced new and affordable “Roaming Plan” with Free Incoming Call facility and outgoing rates same as Home & Roam for its Delhi - NCR customers that would travel to Bihar - Jharkhand, Uttar Pradesh Eeast and West including Uttrakhand and West Bengal - Sikkim - Andman - Nikobar (except Kolkata) telecom circles. With this, over 9 million plus Airtel prepaid mobile customers... Read More

Sanjay March 2nd, 2013 11:23 AM 36 COMMENTS

Airtel, Vodafone and Tata Docomo Tops in Complaints on Billing & Overcharging of Mobile Tariff

India’s leading mobile service provider Bharti airtel, Vodafone, Tata Docomo (Tata Teleservices) and Reliance Communications (Rcom) are once again on top when it comes to their Mobile Service users complaints related to Billing, tariff issues and activation of chargeable VAS without explicit consent of the customer. According to the information given by Minister of State for Communication and IT. Mr. Milind Deora "During the financial year 2012-13 up to January,... Read More

Rudradeep Biswas February 28th, 2013 1:42 PM 6 COMMENTS

‘myairtel’ Bags Best app award at GSMA’s Global Mobile Awards

myairtel application has been acknowledged as ‘App of the Year’ in ‘Best Application using Network APIs’ category at the prestigious Global Mobile Awards 2013 in Barcelona. Powered by a robust Network API backbone and a simple front-end User Interface prepared by partner IBM, the myairtel app allows customers of various Airtel services (mobile, fixed line, DTH etc.) to check outstanding bills, recharge, make payments, activate-deactivate services, raise requests and complaints... Read More

Rudradeep Biswas February 26th, 2013 5:10 PM 8 COMMENTS

Airtel and Opera Software Launches ‘Opera Web Pass’ Offers PAYG Services

Airtel and Opera Software announced the launch of Opera Web Pass for customers in India. With Opera Web Pass, first-time mobile internet users in the country are now able to subscribe to affordable and simple pay-as-you-go services for their Airtel mobile phones. A subscriber just needs to start Opera Mini on his mobile phone, click Opera Web Pass in the Speed Dial start page and choose from a list of... Read More

Rudradeep Biswas February 26th, 2013 3:10 PM 8 COMMENTS

Airtel Updates Its Pre-paid/ IN solution for it’s subscribers, across 23 circles in India

Airtel today announced that it has deployed Ericsson’s Mobile Broadband Charging solution and has completely modernized it’s Pre-paid/ IN solution for it’s subscribers, across 23 circles in India. As a part of the deal, Ericsson’s multi service Mobile Broadband Charging (MBC) suite will allow prepaid customers to have personalised profile based data charging plans. Prepaid customers will be able to customise their data plans across mobility, fixed line and broadband... Read More

Rudradeep Biswas February 25th, 2013 5:03 PM 3 COMMENTS

Airtel To Offer voice services for its 4G TD-LTE customers in Pune through GSM network

Airtel will soon launch voice services for its 4G, TD-LTE (time division duplex long term evolution) customers in Pune, through its existing GSM network. With this Airtel becomes the only operator in India to combine voice with TD-LTE services through GSM network which will allow LTE customers to use 4G handsets for voice calls, voicemails. The operator has selected Nokia Siemens Networks to deploy its Circuit Switched FallBack (CSFB) voice... Read More