A special roaming packs has been launched  for all Airtel based international customers to receive five hours of incoming calls mostly to the postpaid segment customer & outgoing call at 20 rs per minute only n U.S. & in the countries like Malaysia, Indonesia, Singapore, Hong Kong, Thailand, Australia, Germany, the United Arab Emirates and United Kingdom, the customers will avail 40 rs per minute for outgoing calls.

Rs 779 and Rs 1,479 are the following recharge packs available to reduce the incoming & outgoing call rates to 20 rs per minute in some selected countries with full talk time packs. Both these packs can be used internationally & also in India.

In November 2012, Airtel has launched the same roaming packs in African soils to its mobile customers by making incoming calls free.

A new roaming scheme has been started by India’s major telco operator known as Bharti Airtel for Delhi based consumers, this plan will help consumers to receive free incoming calls in five states of India.

 Bharti Airtel said in a statement ”With this pack, Airtel prepaid mobile customers can now get up to 30 days of free incoming calls while traveling to Bihar, Jharkhand, Uttar Pradesh, Uttrakhand and West Bengal (except Kolkata) on a recharge of Rs 21.”

Re 1 for incoming calls, Re 1 for local outgoing calls and Rs. 1.5 paise for STD calls on roaming were the charges assigned to Delhi based Airtel consumers.

Voice & Data Service has finally reached the Jammu & Kashmir the toughest environment in India consist of terrain. But still Bharti Airtel  only being  one of the most poular private telco operator operating over pan India.

To put a connectivity in this terrain regions its really tough, so company has designed special telecom infrastructure  extending the connectivity via. links in this rugged conditions.

Again We want to congratulate Bharti Airtel  to reach at this greater distance by expanding their network coverage to J & K & provide  better

network connectivity than before.

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Recently all the telco operators has hiked their voice tariff as well as GPRS tariff like Airtel, Vodafone & Idea has reduced the 2G data tariff by Rs 98, Uninor has reduced  6GB to 3GB data & the price stands at Rs 90, Earlier Tata Docomo was providing 6GB data at STV 95 & right now the tariff has revised to 3GB for STV 98. Most notably Govt. based telco operator BSNL also reduced the 2G data usage from 2GB to 1.25GB at STV 98.

There were some major changes in this 2G data plans introduced by these telco operators.

1. For Rs 95-99, 650 MB in 21 days ( earlier it was 1 GB for 30 days).

2.For Rs 123-126, 1 GB in 30 days.

3. For Rs 145-149, 1.25 GB in 30 days, earlier it was  1.5GB or 30 days.

4. For Rs 198, 2 GB + Unlimited @ 40kbps for 30 days which was earlier priced at Rs 149.

Likewise 45 percent more data is being offered only by BSNL on home & roaming network.

India’s Leading Telco operators Airtel has come up with a new strategy of increasing the existing tariff plan by 20 percent over the last 18 months. Right now Airtel will make the base tariff plan of around Rs 2 per minute.

If we talk about tariff plans mostly there are two of them i.e. Advantage & Freedom both for Voice & SMS services. First tariff plan will now offers 60 p per min from 50 p per min for local & STD mobile calls & 90 p per min for Landline. Re 1 for Local SMS & Rs 1.50 for national SMS. These tariff will be effective for those users also who are using earlier tariff plans & this new tariff plans will be activated after the old tariff plan comes to an end. Latter the tariff plan will give 1.2 p for local & STD mobile, earlier which was 1 p. This tariff will be effective in all its circles in upcoming 2 months.

Similarly many big operators like Idea, Vodafone are too revising their tariff plans for SMS, Voice & Data services in the past few months, mostly likely with regards to Govt. decision on free roaming.

Again if we see at first Tata Docomo raised their per second billing plan in GSM services past 2 years ago in all its circles so Airtel may be considered as  the 2^nd operator to join this war.

Again if we talk about Airtel leading persons then they put a comment like ‘’ “There is no change in the headline tariff. In most circles we have reduced promotional benefits and free minutes on both acquisition and existing usage. We are committed to enhance value for our customers through continued investments in network, technology, customer experience and life enriching services.”

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Bharti Airtel has tie up with one of India’s popular smart phone maker Karbonn to provide 2G & 3G data offers on selected Karbonn smart phones.

The offer will be for the phones like A9+, A15, A21 & A30. Airtel is providing 500 MB data usage for first six months after purchasing this phone models.

“We at Karbonn Mobiles believe in returning the trust that our consumers have reposed in us, through gestures which endeavour to bring a smile onto the faces of our consumers. By associating with Airtel, we seek to bring faster and greater internet and data outreach to our consumers” statement given by Executive Director Karbonn Mobiles ‘’ Shashin Devsare’’.

Latest offer announced only for Airtel pre pay customers is free access of social network apps i.e. Facebook.

There is also limitation in terms of usage & validity. The facility can only be avail up to 15^th Feb 2013 & up to 500 MB is the approximate usage for the respective customers. For external website links & beyond free usage normal rates i.e. 10 paisa per 10 kb will be applicable.

Customers can easily post their status, upload photos, videos & can do other activities in it as we normally do in social networking sites for free of cost.

Since being the 4^th largest operator in the world Bharti Airtel hold 96 percent of the customers in the pre paid segment.

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Recently after such huge battles on spectrum the old telco operators like Airtel, Idea , Vodafone is ready to hike the sms tariff which is also followed by BSNL.

So these trio operators have pushed the sms tariff hike upto 400% & new sms tariff packs are available in Kerala circles. Soon in other circles the new sms plans will roll out.

NEW SMS PLANS IN ALL INDIA CIRCLES:

Recently many private operators like Airtel, Idea has taken some valuable steps to promote 3G services more than 2G services. So, the operators have hiked up the 2G internet tariffs. The reason was quite simple as we know the operators bided aggressively & started the 3G services in the year 2010.

Even the  operators have made major changes in the popular data packs. The revision of tariff is seen as an anti-consumer move and it is expected that subscribers using Airtel, Vodafone or Idea’s 2G services on dongle will switch to other operators following this hike. Some online reports claim that BSNL will also revise their 2G plans soon.

Note:These plans may have slight price differences depending upon circles. The revised rates are not applied in certain circles.

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Bharti Airtel on Monday begin broadband wireless access (BWA) services based on 4G technology in Bangalore pursue by the fresh inaugural release of the services in Kolkata.

Airtel launched 4G LTE services in Bangalore with 30GB pack in Rs 2,999

Airtel has also commence ‘Smartbytes’ for 4G – thus permit users to purchase these add-on packs and use 4G services even after exhausting their monthly data confines.

“As seen the world over, the total data practice is blowing up and is doubling each year to produce to nearly 3.6 hexabytes by 2014. With the begin of 4G, India will go from being a admirer in technology to matching the world in this domain,” said Sanjay Kapoor, chief executive officer (CEO) – India and South Asia, Bharti Airtel.

The service was inaugurated by Karnataka Chief Minister D.V. Sadananda Gowda.

A successor to the 3G and 2G families, 4G is predictable to be five times faster than 3G services. It would suggest services such as high-definition mobile TV and video conferencing.

Airtel, which had bagged BWA spectrum in four telecom circles — Kolkata, Maharastra, Punjab and Karnataka — for Rs.3,314.36 crore in 2010, chosen Chinese telecom apparatus manufacturer ZTE to supervise its services in Kolkata.

The other players are yet to announce plans to rollout 4G services.

As part of an initial offer by Airtel, customers promise to 4G services will now be specified a cash back for the dongle — thus convey device-cost to consumers zero and concrete way for mass approval of 4G armed forces.

Airtel 4G is now also obtainable in an all fresh 30 GB pack priced at Rs.2,999.