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Bharti Airtel committed for affordable telecom services Tanzania
Jul 27th
Bharti Airtel, which Recently become World’s No 5 Mobile Company by acquiring the African Telecoms asset “Kuwait’s Zain” has committed itself to bring Cheaper, Competitive phone services and to contribute in the growth of telecommunications sector in Tanzania. Tanzania is An east African Country Situated along the Indian Ocean with a population of 39.5 million and is home to Africa’s highest peak Mount Kilimanjaro, Zanzibar Island, Serengeti National Park and Lake Victoria.
Mr. Manoj Kohli, CEO (International) & Jt. MD, Bharti Airtel said in a statement in Tanzania’s capital city Dar es Salaam, “We want to be a partner in Tanzania’s growth and will work with the government to take telecom networks deep into small towns & villages of the country to touch the common man. Bharti will achieve affordability for masses through passing on the benefits of infrastructure sharing and lower interconnect rates to its customers. We are here for the long run and want to be a partner in the growth story of Tanzania. We believe we have inherited well run operations in Tanzania and look forward to working with our team of highly talented professionals and take these operations to leadership.” More >
Airtel Super 5 per Plan launched as Pan India daily pack
Jul 26th
Bharti Airtel, has now started their Popular Super 5 Plan as “Pan India daily pack”. Now with Airtel Super 5 Plan, customers can enjoy the cheapest call rates, free local and STD minutes, free local on-net night minutes, free SMS’s and mobile internet for 1 day in Rs. 5 only which will be deducted from main balance. ( Anyone from this all in 5 Rs per day )
Airtel Super-5 offer prepaid Subscribers to get 9 or 10 local+STD minutes ( According to circle ), Local Airtel calls@20p/min, 50 Night Airtel minutes ( 11pm to 6am ) ,150 Local or National SMS and Mobile Internet up to 50 MB (GPRS) . More >
Airtel officially declares to launch apple Iphone4 in India Oct
Jul 23rd
Airtel, India’s largest telecom service provider has finally revealed its plans to launch iPhone 4, Apple’s Latest Record breaking smartphone. Sanjay Kapoor, CEO, Bharti Airtel, CEO At a industry conference of CII has announced about the company’s plans to launch iPhone 4 in the country by October this year. He also mentioned that the company is closely working with Apple on the same. Before Airtel announcement Another major Operator Vodafone Essar has already declared its plans of rolling out iPhone 4 in India.
Bharti Airtel already sells iPhone 3GS in India at a Price of Rs 35,500 for the 16GB model and Rs 41,500 for the 32GB model. With the launch of third generation mobile services in the country by the end of this year, the sale of such high end devices are likely to get a boost. More >
Airtel launches Unlimited Data Usage plans on Blackberry
Jul 14th
Bharti Airtel, Asia’s leading integrated telecom service provider has announced the unlimited data plans of Blackberry for its prepaid customers. After providing the free access to popular social networking service Facebook in India, now with this offer, Airtel customers can access unlimited mails, send and receive instant message to friends through Blackberry smartphones. Additionally, this comes with unlimited data usage.
For Blackberry services, Airtel offers two different plans – Blackberry @ Rs 299 and @ Rs 899. Using Blackberry at Rs 299, customers can access unlimited mails and send and receive instant messages to friends via Blackberry with unlimited data usage. While the Blackberry @ Rs 899 enables prepaid customers to surf the Internet, load applications and send messages. Both these plans allow customers to access up to 10 supported POP3/IMAP e-mail accounts including MSN, Yahoo! and Gmail with unlimited data usage. More >
3G services in metro cost atleast 700-900 Rs/month
Jul 12th
Bharti Airtel , Indian Telecom Market leader cautioned that 3G mobile services will not come cheap, especially for subscribers in metros, as service providers had to pay unexpected heavy fee for spectrum. “Take the example of Delhi itself, or Mumbai. The amount for spectrum that has been charged is close to Rs 3,500 crore.
according to Sunil Mittal, Chairman Bharti Group. “To recover heavy license fees and input cost, it would be charged atleast Rs 700-900 per month,” On the Qs of 3G launch, Mittal said, “We will launch 3G Some time later this year. We are just waiting for the spectrum allocation, which is promised in September, a few months after that.”
In the rest of the circles, specially in the C-category, the tariffs may not be very high. “The pricing of subscriber tariffs have to be based on the input cost. Any industry relies on input cost and here, the input cost is spectrum and it has gone high,” he said. More >
Airtel offering Free Facebook Access in india
Jul 7th
Bharti Airtel has tied up with Facebook to offer the full mobile website of Facebook free of charge for its 130 million plus subscribers across the country. Valid for two-months (till August 31), Airtel mobile customers will be able to access the Facebook’s full mobile site faster and at no data cost via m.facebook.com. From now on Airtel customers who are Facebook users will be able to post status updates, comment and write on walls, message others, and also be able to view or upload photos – all without any data charges!
Initially it will be available only in English and Hindi, while five more languages “Punjabi, Bengali, Telugu, Tamil, and Malayalam” would be rolled out globally for the first time on Airtel by July 15. Customers accessing the mobile internet for the first time need to simply SMS ‘FACEBOOK’ to 54321 to take advantage of this special offer More >
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