Airtel

Bharti Airtel Partners With Amazon To Grow Cloud Business

Business | Edited by Abhik Deb (with inputs from agencies) | Wednesday August 5, 2020

Airtel's shares rose 1.83 per cent to close at Rs 558.85 apiece

Airtel Digital TV Users With Xstream Fiber Broadband Can Now Upgrade to Xstream Box at Rs. 1,500

Jagmeet Singh | Tuesday August 4, 2020

Airtel Digital TV customers who have an Airtel Xstream Fiber connection can now upgrade to Xstream Box at a refundable security deposit of Rs. 1,500.

Bharti Airtel Shares Gain Over 2% Despite Loss In June Quarter

Business | Edited by Peter Noronha | Thursday July 30, 2020

Bharti Airtel had to provide Rs 36,832.2 crore towards adjusted gross revenue dues as directed by the Supreme Court.

Bharti Airtel Loss Widens To Rs 15,933 Crore In June Quarter

Business | Edited By Abhishek Vasudev | Wednesday July 29, 2020

Bharti Airtel's revenue from operations rose 15.4 per cent to Rs 23,938.7 crore from Rs 20,737.9 crore in the corresponding period year ago.

Sensex Drops Over 350 Points From Day's High Amid Volatile Trade

Business | Edited by Sandeep Singh (with inputs from agencies) | Wednesday July 29, 2020

Bharti Airtel, Dr Reddy's Laboratories, IndiGo and Maruti Suzuki are slated to report their financial results for the April-June period later in the day.

Airtel Silently Modifies Superhero Programme to Reduce Discounts on Recharge Plans

Jagmeet Singh | Tuesday July 28, 2020

Bharti Airtel seems to have silently modified its Superhero programme that debuted in April to offer benefits to customers recharging prepaid accounts of their fellow customers. The programme used to offer a four percent discount on all recharges. However, it has been spotted that the telco has reduced the discount rate on some recharge plans.

Airtel Offering 1GB Free Data for 3 Days to Select Users: Report

Tasneem Akolawala | Monday July 27, 2020

Airtel is reportedly offering 1GB of high-speed data to select users for free of cost. This free data has been doled out on recharge of special plan, wherein users are getting more data than promised.

Airtel Discontinues Rs. 2,398 Recharge Plan, Brings ‘Free Data Coupons’ Offer

Jagmeet Singh | Thursday July 23, 2020

Airtel seems to have discontinued its Rs. 2,398 prepaid recharge plan that offered a validity of 365 days, along with 1.5GB daily high-speed data and unlimited voice calling benefits. Airtel is also separately found to take on Reliance Jio by bringing its free data coupons to offer up to 6GB of high-speed data access to its prepaid users.

In Telecom Dues Case, Lawyer's Folded-Hands Appeal In Top Court: 10 Facts

India News | Reported by A Vaidyanathan, Edited by Anindita Sanyal | Monday July 20, 2020

Former Attorney General Mukul Rohatgi today appealed to the Supreme Court with folded hands, asking it to grant at least 15 years to telecom companies to clear their dues with the government. The court had earlier warned of strong action for wrongdoing, saying it may send them "directly to jail". The loss-making telcos had initially asked for a 20...

Airtel Xstream Broadband Users Can Get Xstream Box at a Refundable Security Deposit of Rs. 1,500

Jagmeet Singh | Monday July 20, 2020

Bharti Airtel is offering the Xstream Box to its broadband customers at a refundable security deposit of Rs. 1,500. In addition to broadband users, the regular Airtel Thanks app users have also been provided the Xstream Box at a discounted price of Rs. 2,249. This is down from the existing price of Rs. 3,639.

Airtel Removes Zee5 Premium Subscription From All Prepaid Plans Except Rs. 289 Pack

Tasneem Akolawala | Friday July 17, 2020

Both the Airtel website and the Airtel Thanks app have removed the Zee5 Premium subscription add-on from all of its prepaid plans. Only the recently launched Rs. 289 prepaid plan now lists the Zee5 Premium subscription add-on for now. The Airtel Rs. 289 prepaid plan was launched earlier this month and it offers 1.5GB high speed daily data, unlimite...

Airtel and Vodafone Idea Collectively Lost Over 75 Lakh Subscribers in March, Jio Adds 46 Lakh New Ones: TRAI

Tasneem Akolawala | Tuesday July 14, 2020

After adding over 9 lakh subscribers in February 2020, Bharti Airtel lost more than 12 lakh subscribers in March this year. Airtel and Vodafone have collectively lost more than 76 lakh subscribers. Reliance Jio continued to add subscribers with more than 46 lakh wireless subscriber additions.

Bharti Airtel, Verizon Tie Up On Video-Conferencing Tool

Business | Reuters | Tuesday July 14, 2020

Airtel BlueJeans will be free for all business customers for three months and store all of its data in India.

Airtel BlueJeans Debuts as Airtel’s Answer to JioMeet and Zoom, Offers Enterprise-Grade Security

Jagmeet Singh | Tuesday July 14, 2020

Airtel BlueJeans is debuting as the telecom operator's answer to Jio's newly launched video conferencing app JioMeet. The telco has partnered with Verizon-owned BlueJeans to bring its JioMeet-rival to the Indian market.

TRAI Asks Airtel, Vodafone Idea to Hold Priority Plans Promising Faster Internet Speeds

Press Trust of India | Monday July 13, 2020

The telecom regulator has asked Bharti Airtel and Vodafone Idea to put on hold specific plans that promised faster speeds to certain priority users, as it questioned whether the network preference came at the cost of deterioration of services for other subscribers.