February 12th, 2010 11:28 AM 24 COMMENTS

Airtel Geared up to Upgrade 2G Network In 8 Telecom Circles

Bharti Airtel, India’s largest GSM mobile service provider geared up to expand and upgrade its 2.5G network in eight circles to increase the its present network capacity by 50%. The Airtel GSM network expansion contract is given to Global telecom equipment maker Nokia Siemens Networks (NSN). The NSN will cover the eight telecom circles named Mumbai, Maharashtra-Goa, Gujarat, Madhya Pradesh-Chattisgarh, Bihar-Jharkhand, Orissa, Kolkata and West Bengal. According to the announcement... Read More

February 10th, 2010 11:31 AM 16 COMMENTS

Airtel Launches Unlimited Chat and Email over BlackBerry at Rs.99

In a bid to boost the Blackberry Mobile services, Bharti Airtel India’s largest GSM mobile service operator today announced the launch of Unlimited Chat and Email service over BlackBerry phones just at Rs.99 per month. 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... Read More

February 9th, 2010 6:03 PM 7 COMMENTS

Airtel launches India’s first Mobile App Store

Bharti Airtel, India's largest GSM mobile service provider, today announced the launch of India’s first mobile applications store - Airtel App Central. Now, Airtel mobile customers can transform their basic phone into a Smart Phone by accessing over 1250 Applications across 25 categories for their business, games, books, social networking and other needs. Offering an easy single click purchase – with no credit card required – the cost is automatically... Read More

February 4th, 2010 7:44 PM 17 COMMENTS

Airtel Valentine’s Day Offer, Unlimited Own Net Callings for 3 Sunday

In a bid to revamp its Fixed Line business strategy, Bharti Airtel, has announced the launch of ground breaking offer Unlimited Sunday on the occasion of Valentine’s Day for its 2.9 million Fixed Line customers across all the telecom circles in India. Airtel’s Unlimited Sunday will offer its Fixed Line customer’s unlimited free Local and STD calls to other Airtel Fixed Line numbers on the three Sundays during the Valentine... Read More

January 26th, 2010 12:12 PM 93 COMMENTS

Airtel Intros New GPRS Pack with 2GB Data Cap

Bharti Airtel, India’s largest GSM mobile service operator announced the launch of Pan-India applicable 2GB GPRS pack at Rs.98 per month for its prepaid subscribers in 16 telecom circles. Airtel users can use this pack to connect Internet from their mobile and PC using mobile phone as modem. Airtel’s Pan-India EDGE-enabled robust network will deliver mobile Internet connectivity at maximum speed between 144 kbps to 234kbps. Presently Airtel’s 2 GB... Read More

January 25th, 2010 11:08 AM 25 COMMENTS

Airtel Gifts Free Talk Time on Republic Day

To celebrate the India’s 61st Republic Day, Bharti Airtel, Asia’s largest integrated telecom provider and number one GSM mobile service operator today announced exciting free talk time offer as a Gift for its Prepaid Mobile Subscribers across India who has unique “2601” digits in their mobile number. The operator announced that all the Airtel prepaid mobile number ends with 2601 (last 4 digit) will gets the benefits of Free Talk... Read More

January 15th, 2010 8:17 PM 16 COMMENTS

Airtel Launches Timer SMS to Schedule the SMS Greetings

Bharti Airtel, India’s largest GSM mobile service operator introduces “Airtel Timer SMS” the next generation SMS service giving you the power to schedule your SMS to be send on a desired date and time. With this new VAS; Airtel's Postpaid and Prepaid subscribers  can able to schedule an SMS in advance to wish their friend on his birth day or any occasions. User's wish will be sent to their desired... Read More

January 15th, 2010 1:07 PM 36 COMMENTS

December 2009 Adds 12.51 Million New GSM Subscribers in India

Cellular Operators Association of India (COAI) has released the GSM subscriber base for December 2009 and, quite expectantly, new additions continue at a higher rate. There has been highest growth rate registered due to some new player like Uninor and S Tel commence their GSM service in various circles, lowest SMS and Roaming tariff by some operators, and Pay Per second tariff adopted by most all GSM operators in last... Read More

January 15th, 2010 11:14 AM 70 COMMENTS

Airtel Unlimited GPRS Now At Rs.15

Bharti Airtel India’s largest GSM mobile service provider has resumed its truly Unlimited Mobile Office GPRS service in Maharashtra and Goa telecom circle. Now Airtel Unlimited GPRS is available at charge of Rs.15 per day. It seems now that every operator is flooding the market with New GPRS Packs. Each day we get to see new GPRS tariff and special packs are being offered by various operators, after the pay... Read More

January 12th, 2010 2:07 PM 28 COMMENTS

Bharti Airtel Buys 70% Stake In Warid Telecom To Invest $300 mn

Bharti Airtel Ltd, India’s largest telecom operator by subscriber numbers, has acquired a 70 per cent stake in Bangladesh’s Warid Telecom, a wholly owned subsidiary of the Abu Dhabi’s Dhabi Group. Under the agreement, Bharti Airtel will make a fresh investment of $300 million to expand Warid Telecom’s operations, while it will get management and board control of the company.This will be Bharti Airtel’s second operation outside of India. The... Read More

January 11th, 2010 4:09 PM 5 COMMENTS

Bharti Airtel Will Provide Network Management Services to REC

Bharti Airtel, India’s leading private telecom services provider today said it has signed a multi-year network management services contract with state-run Rural Electrification Corporation. With this pact, Bharti Airtel will manage REC's complete Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) Backbone, including data centre and entire network connecting Delhi Corporate Office and 18 project or zonal offices across the country. "We are delighted to be entrusted with this prestigious project from REC, a... Read More

January 7th, 2010 11:12 AM 20 COMMENTS

Seventh Take On Indian Telecom Industry – “A SIMPLE TALK”

Taking the stride ahead this is first article in 2010 in accordance with last series “Telecom Talk’s take on INDIAN TELECOM INDUSTRY”. Thou the articles Indian Telecom Sector To Be Most Vibrant In 2010 & The Year of the Telecom Industry: 2009 from TT DESK very well depicted the markets current scenarios and the future forecasting’s and covered each and every aspect of Telecom industry as a whole so let’s... Read More

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