Airtel subscribers in Delhi and NCR will have another reason to celebrate the 61st year of our Independence.
Subscribers can avail the benefit of full talk time and STD at one rupee per month, minus processing charge or service tax on a recharge of Rs 1947. You also get a validity of 1 year.
1947 is the [...]

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Just ask your sister to wait 6 days for the ‘Raksha Bandhan’ gift you owe her on 16th August.
Airtel has announced that they will release the iPhone in India on August 22, 2008.

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Good news for all of you wanting to buy an iPhone in India.
Airtel and Apple have signed a deal to make the iPhone available in India later this year.
No word on the time or pricing yet.
3G does not make any sense in India. I tried to get in touch with Airtel officials about this . [...]

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After Vodafone confirming that they will be getting the iPhone to India, now its AirTel who has confirmed that they will be bringing the iPhone to India at the end of 2008 to its customers.

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I had attended the Cell Show 2006 which is taking place at Rani Meyyammai Hall, Chennai between 22nd and 25th December.
This is the 3rd time the event is being held in Chennai. There was a good turnout for the show despite the Rs.30 entry fee. This is just an indication of the mobile madness in [...]

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The rumors have started again. Reports suggest that the Hong Kong-based Hutchison Whampoa group is believed to be considering a sale of its telecom business. The sale might include Hutchison Essar as well. Hutch has postponed its IPO in India so many times.
Vodafone has shown interest in taking over Hutchison Essar. Its willing to offer [...]

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Press Release
Nokia and Bharti Airtel sign USD 400 million network expansion, managed services contract

Espoo, Finland - Bharti Airtel Limited has awarded Nokia an estimated USD 400 million contract to expand its managed GSM/GPRS/EDGE networks in eight Airtel circles and deploy a pan-Indian WAP solution across its networks.
 
As per the three-year contract, Nokia will [...]

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The Government has alloted low power 3G spectrum to MTNL, BSNL, Hutch and Bharti for testing.TRAI will finalize pricing and allocation details by end of this month.Sources say that 3G spectrum allocation will be made available for less than a month. Strength of spectrum allocation will be 1,000 times less than the actual 3G spectrum.
TATA [...]

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Online Social Networking is the latest buzz create by sites such as Orkut, MySpace etc.
The buzz which is now restricted to the PC may soon be seen on your mobile phone.
It can be called Mobile Communites as ET points out .
There are nearly 3 million users of GPRS in India. Operators and Service Providers see [...]

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I would like to take you through the various plans available from Airtel for GPRS.
Airtel does not advertise supporting EDGE through their Mobile Office service but you
cansee a noticeable difference in the latency if your handset supports EDGE like my Nokia
6630. Airtel has a Data Card service which competes with Reliance CDMA Data Card [...]

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