Airtel has launched it’s mobile payment service under the Airtel Money banner. The service is initially available in Gurgaon. This is the first time a Mobile Operator has launched such a similar in India.Airtel already inked tieups with several merchants in Gurgaon including coffee shops, restaurants etc. to accept payments. The service will gradually be scaled to over 3,000 merchants in the city. Continue reading “Airtel Money – Mobile Payment Service launched”
We decided to compare the 3G Tariffs from Airtel , BSNL and Tata Docomo in the Bangalore, Karnataka Circle. This circle was chosen because it is the only circle maximum Operators are offering 3G as of today.
Reliance was not included because it has launched 3G in this circle.This comparison only takes into account the Prepaid tariffs and our main focus is on the Data Usage charges. We have included Video Calling charges too. We have omitted the basic cost such as the SIM procurement charges. Continue reading “Airtel vs BSNL vs Tata Docomo 3G Tariffs Comparison”
Bharti Airtel, one of India’s leading telecom service provider has today launched their 3G services in two of Tamilnadu’s major cities Chennai and Coimbatore. FoneArena was present at the launch event today. Cinestar and Airtel’s Brand Ambassador Karthi Shivakumar was present at the event, and was one of the first persons to try out Airtel’s 3G video calling. Continue reading “Airtel 3G launched in Chennai & Coimbatore !”
Good news for our Chennai readers who have been asking about the Airtel 3G launch in the city. It’s finally coming soon ! We are hearing that the launch will happen on Jan 27th Continue reading “Airtel 3G Coming Soon to Chennai”
Airtel launched 3G services in Bangalore today and we have some news about the plans and tariffs. Continue reading “Airtel 3G Plans / Tariffs”
Airtel has finally launched it’s 3G services and decided to launch it in an event in Bangalore as we reported earlier.The main reason Airtel launched 3G first in Karnataka is because this circle is Airtel’s largest circle by revenue market share. The company plans to launch 3G services in all the 13 circles it won a license by March 2011
Continue reading “Airtel 3G finally launches , in Karnataka”
Airtel is holding an event today at Bengaluru / Bangalore , Karnataka today and one of our readers shared the invite he received. The invite reads ‘get set’ airtel 3G is coming to Bengaluru and nothing more. Continue reading “Airtel 3G launching in Bengaluru today ?”
We told you that Mobile Number Portability aka MNP has gone live in India today and we have compiled a list of offers from all major mobile operators.
BSNL waives off Port-in charges, Also they are giving away 32K SIM free of cost. In case of specific demand for other SIMs, actual SIM price will be charged.
State Bank of India (SBI) and Bharti Airtel have announced a joint venture to offer banking services to consumers who don’t have access to traditional banking services. Consumers can open a bank account with SBI at Airtel’s customer service points and avail banking services.We are really trying to get more information how this tie-up with actually work and what part of it is mobile banking. But for now we only have the official statement. Continue reading “State Bank of India and Airtel announce joint venture for mobile banking”
We checked out the soon to be launched Airtel Mobile TV app powered by Airtel 3G. The live tv app we checked is for Symbian. It runs on all symbian platforms except s60V2. This app comes with preloaded channels and we believe its free of charge to use. But you may be charged for data usage. The app streams the good number of channels without buffering. We are quite impressed with the streaming quality. We hope that the app will support streaming of videos as we found a video menu inside the app. Continue reading “Airtel 3G Mobile TV App Preview”
With the launch of the HD7 , HTC today became the first handset maker to launch a Windows Phone 7 device in India. Airtel users will get 2GB of Data usage for 6 months for Rs.300.
Continue reading “HTC HD7 Officially Launched in India with Airtel @Rs.29990”
Airtel Bangladesh started its operations today and joined 19 countries where Airtel operates in Asia and Africa. Airtel had earlier acquired majority stake in Warid Telecom in Bangladesh from the Dhabi Group.Warid Telecom has now been renamed as Airtel Bangladesh
Continue reading “Airtel launches mobile services in Bangladesh after completing acquisition of Warid Telecom”
Airtel is offering a demo of their upcoming 3G service in many showrooms across India and we headed to a showroom in Chennai to do a Speed Test as many of you have been asking us about the speeds offered by Airtel 3G Continue reading “Airtel 3G Speed Test”
A FoneArena reader was about to pay his monthly Airtel bill when he was shocked to find the Vodafone logo in the bottom of the page along with the old Airtel logo. Its really surprising how that image ended up on the site Continue reading “Vodafone Logo on Airtel Site”
We just noticed that Airtel has published some 3G handset offers on its website. If you are using a Nokia N8 you get 2GB of Data for free for 6 months.You have to just insert your Airtel SIM into the Nokia N8 to avail this offer.
