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Rudradeep Biswas June 1st, 2011 5:10 PM 16 COMMENTS

Airtel Ignores Peoples Demand To Come Out Clean On Its Carbon Footprints

Greenpeace activists today gathered outside Bharti Airtel’s headquarters in Gurgaon, following the telecom leader’s failure to respond substantively to specific questions pertaining to reduction in its carbon emissions and shifting to renewable sources of energy to power its network operations, inspite of repeated requests. The activists displayed the sign “Switch off Diesel” at the company headquarters as a reminder of the demand made on the leader to shift. Close to... Read More

Sanjay May 20th, 2011 12:43 PM 10 COMMENTS

Airtel Offers Unlimited FREE BlackBerry Service for 2 Months

In an attempt to boost the Blackberry Mobile services, Bharti Airtel India’s largest GSM mobile service operator today announced the launch of FREE Unlimited BlackBerry Service offer for 2 months for its postpaid subscribers. Before you jump with joy, let me clarify it-The service is only for new Blackberry service subscribers and available on BlackBerry smart phones with Airtel Postpaid connections. As a promotional offer, the monthly service charge for... Read More

Sanjay May 19th, 2011 6:46 PM 86 COMMENTS

India Adds 11.1 Million GSM Subscribers in April – IDEA Cellular Leads

India’s leading Mobile Service operator Idea Cellular has added a total of 2.45 million GSM subscribers which is the highest number of new mobile subscriber additions in the month of April 2011. Idea Cellular’s GSM subscriber base now reached 91.9 million, as per the COAI data. Cellular Operators Association of India (COAI) today released the GSM subscriber base for April 2011 and, quite expectantly, new additions continue at an average... Read More

Sanjay May 17th, 2011 4:58 PM 12 COMMENTS

Airtel 3G services Now in Shimla – Himachal Pradesh

Bharti Airtel today announced the launch of 3G Mobile and Data services in north India’s summer capital – Shimla in Himachal Pradesh circle. Airtel 3G services launched in Shimla today by flagging off Airtel 3G mobike rally in the city. Aimed at empowering customers in Shimla with the ability to get a first-hand experience of the exciting capabilities that 3G services can deliver. The operator also set up five Airtel... Read More

Tarun P K May 17th, 2011 12:59 PM 21 COMMENTS

Airtel Launches USSD Based Facebook Access Service In India

Airtel today announced that starting today, its 150 million plus customers in India can now simply dial *325# (and “*fbk#” for non-qwerty mobile handsets) to access Facebook without subscribing to data plans. To deliver this, Airtel has launched the world’s first USSD-based service innovation that will allow its mobile customers to update their Facebook status messages, view / comment on / ‘Like’ news feed, post on friends’ walls, find /... Read More

Anirban Mukherjee May 16th, 2011 1:41 AM 51 COMMENTS

Airtel Launches RCV37, Local Calls Now At 35p

Looks like no single operator is interested to let its customers to use the power of MNP for once. Thanks to MNP, now biggies like Airtel, Vodafone also has registered their name in tariff war. Few days ago we have brought the news that Vodafone launched its Bounus Crad of Rs.39 for lowering local call as low as 35p/Min. Now, it’s the time of Airtel launching the RCV of Rs.37.... Read More

Sanjay May 12th, 2011 1:11 PM 28 COMMENTS

The Wave is here – This Time It’s Airtel’s Logo Which Gets Names The Wave

Airtel today introduced Wave as the name for the new Airtel symbol. Crowd sourced through a six month long on line contest, this truly brought the winner "closer to his dream’ thereby bringing alive the brand promise of ‘dil jo chahey paas laye’. The name game online contest was initiated by Airtel in November 2010, inviting customers to recommend a name for the company’s new logo. (more…) Read More

Sanjay May 7th, 2011 1:38 PM 66 COMMENTS

BSNL Imposes Rs 2.6 Cr Penalty on Airtel For ‘Misusing’ Its Network

India’s National Telecom backbone and Pan India 3G Mobile service operator Bharat Sanchar Nigam Ltd (BSNL) today slapped a Rs.2.60 crore penalty on leading Mobile Service provider Bharti Airtel for foul play and misusing its mobile numbers before the official launch of Mobile Number Portability (MNP) in Madhya Pradesh circle. According to the BSNL, Before the official launch of Mobile Number Portability, Airtel transferred its calls to BSNL MP Network,... Read More

Sanjay May 6th, 2011 4:46 PM 7 COMMENTS

Airtel Started iPhone4 Pre-registration in India

Remember our earlier post regarding Bharti Airtel and Aircel Will Launch iPhone 4 in India now.Finally some good news for iPhone4 lovers in India. Airtel has stared its Pre-Registration process and its surprised to see Aircel is still calm regarding iPhone4 Pre-Registration process all we can see in Aircel portal is coming soon. Last year when when Vodafone India announced its Pre-Booking page , Airtel quickly reacted to it and... Read More

Sanjay April 22nd, 2011 7:18 PM 52 COMMENTS

Airtel Shuts Down Mobile Service In Manipur

India's largest GSM mobile service operator Bharti airtel shuts down its operations in Manipur state leaving over three lakh subscribers in the North East telecom circle in the lurch. According to the statement by the All Manipur Airtel Workers Union "following continuous attacks by militants on telecom towers and employees associated with the Airtel, the BTS/Mobile Network tower are now switch off which will breakdown the mobile services of Airtel... Read More

Tarun P K April 18th, 2011 3:13 PM 6 COMMENTS

Airtel Launches ‘Airtel Photos’

Now Airtel broadband customers anywhere in India can import and store unlimited number of photos on their own personal space on the cloud. Airtel Photos enables the user to import photo albums from Facebook or upload photos directly from their computer to their account. Users can store unlimited photos in their Airtel Photos account as storage is free.Airtel Photo Print enables customers to choose from matte, gloss and luminous print... Read More

Sanjay April 15th, 2011 7:21 PM 32 COMMENTS

India Adds 14.5 Million GSM Subscribers in March – Vodafone Leads

India's leading Mobile Service operator Vodafone has added a total of 3.68 million GSM subscribers which is the highest number of new mobile subscribers additions in the month of March 2011. Vodafone's GSM subscriber base now reached 134.5 million, as per the COAI data. Cellular Operators Association of India (COAI) today released the GSM subscriber base for March 2011 and, quite expectantly, new additions continue at an average growth rate.... Read More