Airtel has announced that the Easy Recharge for pre-paid customers on airtel.in now supports payments via Net banking. They launched the online recharge for the prepaid users across India last August. It had payment support via Master/Visa credit or debit cards. Now the net banking support is a great advantage for those who have online net banking accounts. Continue reading “Airtel Easy Recharge on airtel.in now supports Net banking”
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Nokia, Airtel still rank as top trusted brands in India
Nokia has been voted as India’s Most Trusted Brand again and retains their first position from the last year according to a recent survey conducted by research firm Trust Research Advisory (TRA). In the telecom sector, Airtel leads by retaining the same 9th spot as last year. The Brand Trust Report, India Study, 2012 (BTR 2012) has listed India’s 1000 Most Trusted Brands and this research was conducted among 2718 ‘influencer’ respondents across 15 cities. Continue reading “Nokia, Airtel still rank as top trusted brands in India”
Airtel launches BlackBerry BBM Plan for post-paid customers for Rs. 129
Airtel has launched new BBM Plan for mobile customers using BlackBerry smartphones. This would lets the Airtel customers enjoy unlimited use of Blackberry Messenger (BBM) and free 300 local + national SMS per month. Vodafone launched similar BBM plan for both the pre-paid and post-paid customers earlier today. Continue reading “Airtel launches BlackBerry BBM Plan for post-paid customers for Rs. 129”
Airtel launches Comedy FM, new VAS for Mobile customers
Airtel has launched Comedy FM, a new VAS (Value added Service) for mobile customers. This would offer jokes, fillers, standup comedy acts to humourous excerpts from sitcoms. Airtel customers can now dial 52747 to subscribe to Comedy FM to get daily dose of humour from Comedy Circus, FIR, Office-Office, Lapatagunj. Rangeela Raju and much more! Continue reading “Airtel launches Comedy FM, new VAS for Mobile customers”
Airtel customers facing service outage in Western India
Airtel customers in Mumbai are facing network outage since today morning. According a report by Times of India, Airtel customers in western part of Maharashtra are experiencing a service outage due to a technical glitch, and Airtel is working toward rectifying the outage at the earliest. Continue reading “Airtel customers facing service outage in Western India”
Airtel launches new on-net local voice calling packs for prepaid customers in Rajasthan
Airtel has launched new calling packs for pre-paid customers in Rajasthan that would offer on-net (Airtel to Airtel) locals calls at as low as 25 paisa/minute. Rajasthan, customers can now purchase these packs that offer Airtel-to-Airtel local call minutes in recharge denominations of Rs. 10, 45, 165 and 300 for different validity periods. Continue reading “Airtel launches new on-net local voice calling packs for prepaid customers in Rajasthan”
Airtel launches Gifting and Call Me Back SMS services for prepaid customers
Airtel has launched 2 new services, Airtel Gifting and Call Me Back SMS for prepaid customers. The Airtel Gifting service would let the customers send and receive talk time and other packs just by dialing *141# from their pre-paid connection. Call me back SMS would let customers send an emergency call me back SMS to other Airtel customers if they doesn’t have minimum balance to make a call. Continue reading “Airtel launches Gifting and Call Me Back SMS services for prepaid customers”
Bharti Airtel awarded for best delivery of network services with customer focus in 2011
Bharti Airtel has been awarded with Telecom Centre of Excellence (TCOE) Award for delivery of network services with customer focus for the year 2011. This award is based on Network Quality of service KPIs, Network Coverage, Product Innovation and Network Bench-marking processes based on network parameters and customer voice. Airtel offers 2G services in 23 circles and 3G services in 13 circles across India. Continue reading “Bharti Airtel awarded for best delivery of network services with customer focus in 2011”
Airtel announces top customer download preferences in 2011, Kolaveri Di tops
Airtel has released its annual survey of customer preferences for this year, Airtel Mobitude 2011. It shows in-depth study of data capturing all content downloaded round the year by over 170 million plus Airtel subscribers in the country. It includes various categories including top cine stars and sports icons, most downloaded songs, various sports, music downloads etc. Talk2me and Live Concert made it easier for the customers to interact with the movie stars, favorite singers & cricketers. Continue reading “Airtel announces top customer download preferences in 2011, Kolaveri Di tops”
Airtel launches new 3G Unlimited High Speed USB Data Card Plan in Rajasthan
Airtel has launched a new 3G Unlimited High Speed USB Data Card Plan, Airtel Super 950 in Rajasthan. This plan is priced at Rs. 950 / month and it would offer 7.2 MBPS for the first 6 GB data after that speed would be throttled to 20 kbps and remain unlimited for the rest of the month. Continue reading “Airtel launches new 3G Unlimited High Speed USB Data Card Plan in Rajasthan”
Airtel offers free Mobile Twitter access for 3 months
Airtel subscribers can now access Twitter on their mobile phones free of cost till 1st March 2012. They can visit mobile.twitter.com or SMS 53000 from their mobile phones to get access to Twitter free without any data charges. This would let the users to view their timeline, find and follow accounts, post new Tweets, see Tweets mentioning them, and reply to other users and retweet their Tweets for free. Those who doesn’t have an account can sign up for Twitter or subscribe to SMS updates of specific users (via short code 53000) on their mobile phones free for the period of this offer.
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Airtel launches Mediphone unique 24X7 mHealth service
Airtel has launched Mediphone – unique 24X7 mHealth service in partnership with Healthfore, A division of Religare Technologies Ltd., with Fortis Hospitals as knowledge partner. This would let the Airtel mobile customers to avail quality health advice through their mobile phones, anytime and anywhere. Continue reading “Airtel launches Mediphone unique 24X7 mHealth service”
iPhone 4S Launched in India on Airtel and Aircel
The Apple iPhone 4S was launched on both Aircel and Airtel in India today at a midnight launch ceremony. The Airtel launch was held at an upscale restaurant while Aircel decided to keep it real by holding the event at their South Extension market retail outlet. The launch events included handing over the handsets to the first pre-order customers.
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Airtel iPhone 4S Plans
Airtel has announced the pricing for both the pre-paid and the post-paid plans for the iPhone 4S. They started pre-orders for the iPhone 4S last week and it is expected to be available from 25th November. The 16GB version comes at Rs.44,500 and the 32GB is available for Rs.50,900. These plans offer free Local Minutes, Local and National SMS and 3G Data. Aircel has already revealed their post-paid plans for the iPhone 4S earlier this week. Continue reading “Airtel iPhone 4S Plans”
Airtel Apple iPhone 4S Pricing 16GB – Rs.44500, 32GB – Rs.50900, 64GB – Rs.57500
While we got some news about the Apple iPhone 4S pricing from Aircel , we now have the pricing from Airtel. Its not looking very different.The 16GB model is about Rs.400 lesser than on Aircel and priced at Rs.44500.There is a 64GB option at Rs.57500. The 32GB model is priced exactly the same at Rs.50900. Looks like Airtel is taking pre-bookings online . Apple does not directly sell iPhones in India and operators actually procure them and sell it here. The iPhone 4 pricing at Rs.34500 was actually pretty decent. But the iPhone 4S pricing seems very high. There is also news that the iPhone 4 8GB version will cost Rs.37900 and the 3GS will cost Rs.20900. That looks like an increase in the cost of the iPhone 4 as well. Continue reading “Airtel Apple iPhone 4S Pricing 16GB – Rs.44500, 32GB – Rs.50900, 64GB – Rs.57500”