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  Bharti Airtel has announced that they’ve picked up a 49 percent stake in Qualcomm AP’s India entities that hold the BWA licenses. The deal means good news for Airtel consumers as the operator will soon launch its 4G LTE service in Delhi, Mumbai, Haryana and Kerala, expanding its LTE service to a total of [...]

  After Kolkata, Bharti Airtel has launched its 4G service for the Bengaluru city. Users in the India’s ‘Silicon Valley’ will now be able to enjoy wireless internet speeds to up to 100Mbps (theoretical). As an introductory offer, Airtel is offering 4G CPE devices for free when a user opts for a Rs. 1,999 or [...]

  Airtel today became the India’s first operator to launch 4G services and Kolkata will be the first region that will allow high-speed wireless internet speeds. Airtel will use network based on TD-LTE and promises to deliver speeds of up to 40Mbps. Disappointingly, there are no smartphones or tablets to take advantage of but Airtel [...]

  Airtel has come clean with their iPhone 4 plans that will be offered to consumers from tomorrow. While the retail price is the same as Aircel (Rs.34,500 for 16GB and Rs.40,900 for 32GB), Airtel is offering more affordable 3G plans starting from Rs.600. However, unlike Aircel who is offering 100% percent return price of [...]

  Bharti Airtel has announced to bring the iPhone 4 to India soon. There’s no exact time frame as to when we can expect the device but has confirmed that Apple’s highly successful phone will be available “in the coming months.” Although the decision to launch the phone must have been to complement Airtel’s 3G [...]

  We’ve got quite a few mCommerce companies like Mchek, NGPay but this is the first time a telecom operator is offering their version of mCommerce service. Airtel has introduced Airtel money that will allow consumers to make payments to businesses via mobile phones. Airtel says the service is simple to use and secure where [...]

Airtel today commenced its 3G operations in Karnataka. Karnataka is Airtel’s largest circle by revenue so it’s understandable why Airtel chose to launch their services in the southern state first. However, Airtel has confirmed to launch its 3G operations in rest of the 13 3G license circles by March 2011. Airtel has segregated its plans [...]

  Airtel seems unperturbed with Apple’s antennagate as they’ve confirmed to be in talks with the iPhone maker. At an industry conference, Sanjay Kapoor from Airtel confirmed that they’re working with Apple and is looking to launch the latest iPhone iteration sometime in September or October. “We are working with Apple…hopefully (Bharti will launch) in [...]

  HTC today announced Smart, its first feature phone for India. Smart is HTC’s attempt to give user a smartphone experience at an affordable price. It runs on a non-smartphone platform by Qualcomm known as Brew and features a 300MHz CPU, 256MB RAM/ROM, HTC Sense UI, FM Radio, 2.8-inch touchscreen display with QVGA resolution, 3G [...]

  UPDATE: Here are the prices. 16GB will trade for Rs. 35,500 whereas 32GB for Rs. 41,500. Additionally, users will get 500MB worth of free data every month for a year. Airtel’s official twitter account spilled more details regarding iPhone 3GS. We wouldn’t have to wait for months as told before because the iPhone 3G’s [...]

  UPDATE: Product Page added below. The small FAQ on the page says “the handset will be available at Airtel Authorised Stores very soon” and will mostly be bundled with a 3G plan. While most countries are waiting for the updated version of iPhone, Indians will officially be getting the iPhone 3GS soon. Airtel, India’s [...]

  UPDATE: So Airtel’s App Store variant will be known as App Central and it will be WAP-based only. Airtel users can point the phone’s browser to http://airtel.cellmania.com using Airtel Live’s WAP profile. The only good thing I found for now is the buying part. The site automatically detects your Airtel number and bills it [...]

  Airtel has brought the latest Blackberry Curve device to India at a very attractive price. The Curve 8520 will sell nationwide from August 7 at a price of Rs. 15,990. The 8520 is the first Blackberry device to sport a trackpad instead of the trackball and brings some exciting features like Wi-Fi and EDGE [...]

  UPDATE: The phone will be sold as an unlocked one. However, users on Airtel will be eligible for free data access. HTC has finally announced Magic, India’s first Android phone in partnership with Airtel. It still is the same Magic under the hood but Airtel brings in few of its own features like Portfolio [...]

  UPDATE: The first Android phone in India has been launched. Click here for more details. HTC has a press event scheduled for today but it looks like the cat is already out of the bag. Economic Times is reporting that HTC has teamed up with Airtel to bring the first Android phone in India [...]