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Airtel launches another useless service – Broadband TV
Airtel has an unprecedented record of offering totally useless and crappy “value added” services to users. Continuing with this tradition, they have recently launched “broadband TV” – a service that lets you watch live TV over your broadband connection. No, this is NOT their IPTV service. In IPTV, you need a special set top box…
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Airtel 3G offering amazing speed in Delhi/NCR
Ever since I got my number ported to Airtel and got 3G activated for my iPhone 4, I have been trying to measure speed that I can get over the network. Some of my initial analysis can be found in this article. Here, I am going to post some more results at other times of…
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Bharti Airtel to (Finally) launch 3G services in India next week
The country’s biggest private cellular operator, Airtel has announced that they are going to launch their 3G services in a week’s time. This announcement follows the government’s nod to allow 3G video calls which were previously absurdly prevented from being launched. “We will make the announcement for the commercial launch of our 3G service in…
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Airtel gearing up to launch 3G services in India; iPhone 4 and iPad in handset list
One of the preferred wireless carrier in India, Bharti Airtel is gearing up to roll out its 3G services across their circles in India. Airtel has launched a micro site dedicated to providing information on their 3G services in India. Airtel had previously announced their 3G data cards in India signaling the proposed launch of…
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Airtel launches micro SIM cards in India; Launch of iPhone 4 imminent
The iPhone 4 & iPad accept micro SIM cards only. Although we have been cropping the mini SIM cards in India and using them with iPad and iPhone 4, many people are still hesitant to do that and are waiting for an official solution. Today, Airtel has launched micro SIM cards in India, clearly indicating…
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Airtel launches 3G data modems in India
Bharti Airtel is all set to enter the 3G data business. It has been only a day since the government allocated the 3G spectrum to operators and Airtel has already launched 3G data modems in India. Although, you will not be able to use them until 3G services are started.
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Airtel launches digital TV recorder (PVR)
Finally, Airtel has launched its personal video recorder (PVR) in the market under the name “digital TV recorder”. It has all the features TataSky+ has including some extra cherries such as: Can record 100 hours of video (10 hours more than TataSky+) Has HDMI port Ability to record shows from your mobile phone using a…
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Airtel introduces 50 Mbps & 30 Mbps broadband plans in India
Looks like Bharti Airtel is on a spree. The company announced today that it is introducing 30 Mbps & 50 Mbps broadband plans in India. This translates to 3.75 MBPS and 6.25 MBPS speeds respectively. Wow. It looks like we are finally catching up to the rest of the world in terms of broadband speed.…
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Airtel launches 4Mbps plans with absurd FUP limits
Airtel is desperate to woo in new customer. The company recently launched four new broadband plans offering speed of 4Mbps. However, the Fair Usage Policy (FUP) limit on these plans is completely absurd for a speed like that. Equally absurd is the post FUP speed of 256kbps! Here are the details:
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Airtel’s low rental GPRS plan
Airtel has launched a GPRS plan with a monthly rental of INR 98 with 2GB transfer limit. This is pretty cool as something which was available only to large corporate connections before is now available to everyone. Here are the details:
