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April 22, 2010: Bharti Airtel has announced the launch of Live Aarti service for its subscribers. Airtel subscribers will now be able to listen to live prayers from some places of worship in India which include Tirupati Balaji, Sidhi Vinayak, Shri Shirdi Sai Baba and Bangla Sahib.
In a press statement, the company claimed it was the first service on mobile offering live puja. Users need to call on different numbers from their mobiles for subscribing to different shrines and have to pay Rs 5 as a onetime membership fee along with a daily subscription charge of Rs 2 per shrine.
Airtel digital TV- the DTH service from Bharti Airtel – today announced the launch of ‘Airtel digital TV Recorder’, an enhanced Set Top Box (STB) with capability to record live television, anytime, anywhere. A first of its kind example of convergence between the mobile and TV screen, Airtel offers customers the convenience, to record their favourite shows using their mobile phones from anywhere in the world.
Airtel digital TV Recorder will be available at Rs 6990/- to all new customers and at Rs 5990/- to all existing Airtel digital TV customers going in for an upgrade.
March 25, 2010: Bharti Airtel, one of Asia’s leading integrated telecom service providers, today announced that it will launch iPhone 3GS in India on March 26, 2010.
iPhone 3GS is the fastest, most powerful iPhone yet, packed with incredible new features including improved speed and performance – up to twice as fast as iPhone 3G – with longer battery life, a high-quality 3 megapixel autofocus camera, easy to use video recording and hands free voice control. The groundbreaking App Store provides access to more than 150,000 applications from games to social networking to financial planning and health management, generating more than 3 billion downloads to date. iPhone is now available in over 80 countries around the world.
Bharti Airtel Ltd. has reached at a deal with Apple Inc. for selling the iPhone 3GS in India in the upcoming months.
Bharti Airtel is India’s largest mobile phone operator by the users that has submitted its bid for participating in bandwidth auction to get the third generation, 3G mobile services. The bidders who would achieve success would be permitted to provide 3G services commercially from Sept. 1, 2010.
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March 12, 2010 : Bharti Airtel, one of Asia’s leading integrated telecom service providers, today announced that it is the official Broadband Sponsor of Cricket on YouTube for IPL 2010.
For the entire duration of the IPL, cricket enthusiasts enjoying the action on YouTube on an Airtel Broadband connection, will have a free upgrade to a speed of 2mbps. Airtel broadband customers will therefore be able to enjoy a ‘buffer-free’ live cricket viewing experience on www.youtube.com/ipl from 12th March – 25th April. This is a step towards drawing more people towards viewing major sporting and entertainment events online through Airtel Broadband.
Bharti Airtel Limited (“Bharti”) and Zain have agreed to enter into exclusive discussions until 25 March 2010 for the acquisition of Zain’s African unit (Zain Africa BV) based on an enterprise value of USD 10.7 billion.
This potential transaction does not include Zain’s operations in Morocco and Sudan and remains subject to due diligence, customary regulatory approvals and signing of final transaction documentation.
In a bid to boost the Blackberry Mobile services, Bharti Airtel India’s largest GSM mobile service operator today announced the launch of Unlimited Chat and Email service over BlackBerry phones just at Rs.99 per month.
Before you jump with joy, let me clarify it-The service is only for new Blackberry service subscribers and available on BlackBerry smart phones with Airtel Postpaid connections. As a promotional offer, the monthly service charge of Rs.99 is for first 6 months from the date of activation and after 6 months the regular BlackBerry plan charge of Rs.299 per month will be applicable.
India’s largest mobile operator, Bharti Airtel, has joined the race with handset makers such as Nokia, RIM (maker of BlackBerry) and Samsung among others to get a share of the mobile applications market in India.
Bharti’s app store is set to go live on Wednesday (February 10) with over 1,200 applications making it the first Indian telco to attempt replicating the highly successful business model of Apple, the pioneer in this space.
Telecom major Bharti Airtel has clinched a deal to buy a controlling stake (70%) in Bangladesh’s fourth-biggest mobile phone operator Warid Telecom. The deal will be announced in New Delhi on Tuesday, people familiar with the development told ET.
It is also learnt that, India’s largest telco has got political clearance from the Bangladesh government, including the country’s Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina who is currently on a visit to India.
Bangladesh’s telecom regulator approved Bharti Airtel’s proposed $300 million investment in a 70 per cent stake in Abu Dhabi Group’s Warid telecom, the fourth-largest mobile company in the country.
“We have approved Bharti Airtel’s plan to buy the Warid stake,” Bangladesh Telecommunication Regulatory Commission (BTRC) chairman Zia Ahmed told a local newspaper.
