Monday, January 24, 2011

Airtel launches 3G services

Airtel rolled out third-generation 3G services in Karnataka(Bangalore), which is  its largest customer and revenue base circle. 3G services offer high speed internet access on mobile and utility services like watching videos , video calls, watching live TV and streaming.

Airtel also announced that the service would be launched across all 13 circles licenced to the company by March 2011.Airtel has also designed a tariff structure like individual data usage limits and usage alerts. Users can also buy time based plans along with data limits, sachet plans.Users can choose monthly packages between Rs.200-750. Users will be able to download at speeds up to 21 MBPS.

Airtel has become the fifth telecom operator to offer 3G service in India.Earlier Tata Docomo , RCom launched the 3G services in  2010, after BSNL and MTNL. Others like Vodafone is expected to launch it by next month.Government auctioned 3G licences to private operators last year.

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