Airtel Rising Stars launched to hunt the best under-16 soccer players across India

 

Airtel has launched, Airtel Rising Stars, a new under-16 soccer talent hunt that would choose 12 talented footballers who will get the chance-to attend a week long training camp with Manchester United in Old Trafford, England. Starting mid-July 2012, this 3-months long talent hunt will be conducted in 16 cities (including Mumbai, Delhi, Goa, Kolkata, Bengaluru, Calicut, Chandigarh and Jaipur) with the support of the respective State Football Associations. Continue reading “Airtel Rising Stars launched to hunt the best under-16 soccer players across India”

Airtel launches ‘Behtar Zindagi’ IVR-based VAS for farmers in Rajasthan


Airtel has launched ‘Behtar Zindagi’, a new IVR-based Value Added Service (VAS) for farmers and their communities across Rajasthan in partnership with VAS provider Handygo Technologies Pvt. Ltd. This service would lets them access a wide variety of relevant and useful information including market prices, agricultural & cropping advisory, livestock advisory, weather and finance etc. Continue reading “Airtel launches ‘Behtar Zindagi’ IVR-based VAS for farmers in Rajasthan”

Airtel offers UEFA Euro 2012 live streaming, videos, score updates and more


Airtel has bagged exclusive video rights on the mobile platform for UEFA Euro 2012 that starts on 8th June till 1st July 2012.. This would let Airtel customers enjoy exclusive access to mobile and video content including LIVE streaming from UEFA Euro 2012. It also offers wide range of services such as Go! Go! Go! Contest, LIVE feeds, SMS or MMS score updates, games, mobile magazine etc. Continue reading “Airtel offers UEFA Euro 2012 live streaming, videos, score updates and more”

Airtel to offer co-branded version of Opera Mini for their customers

Airtel has signed a global arrangement with Opera Software to offer customized and co-branded version of Opera Mini browser for Airtel mobile customers in India. The Co-branded version of Opera Mini for Vodafone was launched last year and Idea launched it earlier this February. Opera Software has agreements with 13 out of the top 30 operators globally. Continue reading “Airtel to offer co-branded version of Opera Mini for their customers”

Get Tamil Nadu State Board 10th exam results on Airtel

Airtel has introduced new VAS for its prepaid and postpaid customers in Tamil Nadu to access their state board results for Class 10 on their mobile phones. The board results for class 10will be declared on 4th June, 2012. Continue reading “Get Tamil Nadu State Board 10th exam results on Airtel”

Airtel launches more than full Talk Time packs in Gujarat


Airtel has launched more than full Talk time packs for prepaid customers in Gujarat. These packs would offer more talk time than the recharge value. These packs start from Rs. 110 that would offer 115 minutes of talk time. Continue reading “Airtel launches more than full Talk Time packs in Gujarat”

Airtel partners with Qualcomm to bring 4G to Delhi, Mumbai, Haryana and Kerala


Bharti Airtel has announced an agreement to acquire 49% interest in Qualcomm Asia Pacific’s (Qualcomm AP) India BWA entities. Under this Agreement, Bharti has made US$ 165 million approx investment to acquire Qualcomm AP’s India BWA licenses in Delhi, Mumbai, Haryana and Kerala. Qualcomm won BWA Spectrum in these circles in 2010 by paying about USD 1 billion approx to acquire it. Continue reading “Airtel partners with Qualcomm to bring 4G to Delhi, Mumbai, Haryana and Kerala”

Airtel 3G Old vs New Tariffs Compared


Airtel launched 3G services in India on January 2011, but their 3G tariffs were high compared to other network providers. Airtel started offering double data on select 3G data plans last September. Now they have completely revamped their 3G plans and added Smartbytes plans for post-paid customers. Continue reading “Airtel 3G Old vs New Tariffs Compared”

Airtel launches new affordable 3G plans


Airtel has launched new 3G plans for pre-paid and post-paid customers after Aircel launched new 3G plans last month. They have also introduced Smartbytes additional data usage packs for its postpaid Airtel mobile customers on 3G. Now the plans start at 10MB that would offer 30 minutes of 3G access valid for 1 day. Now Rs. 100 pack offers 300MB free data, Rs. 250 3G pack would offer 1GB of free data, Rs. 450 pack would offer 2GB of free data and Rs 1500 pack would offer 10GB free data that are valid for 30 days. Continue reading “Airtel launches new affordable 3G plans”

Talk to Sachin Tendulkar on Airtel Talk2Me

Airtel launched Talk2Me Value Added Service (VAS) in 2010 that lets the Airtel Customers talk to their favorite celebrities. They now offer an opportunity for the Airtel customers to chat with Sachin Tendulkar live on this Friday, 18th May 2012 from 4PM through Airtel Talk2Me. Continue reading “Talk to Sachin Tendulkar on Airtel Talk2Me”

Airtel launches new 4G tariff plan for Kolkata


Airtel has launched new Break Free Ultimate plan at Rs. 2,999 for the customers in Kolkata, following an encouraging response from customers. They launched 4G LTE services in Bengaluru earlier this week along with this new plan. The Break Free Ultimate plan offers 30GB free usage. These plans are available in Prepaid and Postpaid. Continue reading “Airtel launches new 4G tariff plan for Kolkata”

Nokia brings Nokia Store operator billing to Vodafone and Airtel


Nokia has announced that have partnered with Vodafone India and Airtel to offer integrated billing solutions on the Nokia Store in India. They partnered with Reliance to introduce operator billing on Nokia Store last year. This would let users download local and global paid content from the Nokia Store and pay for their downloads as part of their monthly mobile phone bills or have the amount deducted from the pre-paid balance. Continue reading “Nokia brings Nokia Store operator billing to Vodafone and Airtel”

Airtel launches 4G LTE services in Bengaluru

Airtel has launched their 4G LTE services in Bengaluru followed by the launch in Kolkata last month. They appointed Huawei to mange their network in Karnataka. As an introductory offer customers subscribing to 4G services will now be given a cash-back for the CPE / dongle that are priced at Rs. 7,750 and Rs. 7,999 respectively. Airtel 4G is now also available in an all new break free ultimate plan that offers 30GB free usage and is priced at Rs. 2999. They have also introduced Smartbytes so that customers can buy these add on packs and continue enjoying the 4G experience even after exhausting their monthly data limits on their plan.

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