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 […]
Airtel switches on the 4G service for Bengaluru
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 launches India’s first 4G service
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 iPhone 4 plans detailed, starts from Rs. 600
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 […]
Airtel to bring iPhone 4 to India
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 […]
Airtel jumps in the mCommerce fray with Airtel Money
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 3G network goes live in Karnataka, plans start from Rs. 9
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 to launch iPhone 4 by October
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 Smart comes to India at an affordable price
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 […]
Airtel iPhone 3GS coming on March 26 [Updated w/ price]
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 […]