AIRTEL’s Stunt

Bharti Airtel Limited, commonly known as airtel, is an Indian telecommunications company that operates in 19 countries across South Asia, Africa and the Channel Islands. It operates a GSM network in all countries, providing 2G or 3G services depending upon the country of operation. Airtel is the fifth largest telecom operator in the world with over 207.8 million subscribers across 19 countries at the end of 2010. It is the largest cellular service providerin India, with over 152.5 million subscribers at the end of 2010. Airtel is the 3rd largest in-country mobile operator by subscriber base, behind China Mobile and China Unicom.

Airtel is the market leader with almost 152.5 million customers at the end of 2010 in INDIA alone.

On May 18, 2010, 3G spectrum auction was completed and Airtel will have to pay the Indian government 12,295 crore (US$2.73 billion) for spectrum in 13 circles, the most amount spent by an operator in this auction. Airtel won 3G licences in 13 telecom circles of India: Andhra Pradesh, Assam, Bihar, Delhi, Himachal Pradesh, Jammu & Kashmir, Karnataka, Mumbai, Rajasthan, Tamil Nadu, Uttar Pradesh (East), West Bengal and North East.

On 20 September 2010, Bharti Airtel said that it has given contracts to Ericsson India, Nokia Siemens Networks (NSN) and Huawei Technologies to set up infrastructure for providing 3G services in the country. These vendors will plan, design, deploy and maintain 3G-HSPA (third generation, high speed packet access) networks in 13 telecom circles where the company has won 3G licences. While Bharti Airtel has awarded network contracts for seven 3G circles to Ericsson India, NSN would manage networks in three circles. Chinese telecom equipment vendor Huawei Technologies has been introduced as the third partner for three circles.

On January 24, 2011, Airtel launched 3G service in Bangalore, Karnataka – its largest circle by revenue. With this launch Bharti Airtel becomes the third private operator (fifth overall) to launch its 3G services in the country following and Tata Docomo and Reliance Communications.

On January 27, 2011, airtel announced the commercial launch of its 3G services in the cities of Chennai and Coimbatore.

AIRTEL was been one of the familiar networks in INDIA which an INDIAN on the remote last village even know…. It was been on the top of its customer reliable services given to its valued customers.

When the MNP (Mobile Number Portability) has been launched in INDIA after some months of 3G launch AIRTEL raised the Call cost and also its recharge values have been very poor.

Such a big company when contacted by its customer to know details about it the companys customer care has been deactivated and no things which can solve these..

AIRTEL even costs very huge its 3G customers…

Its internet accesibilty speed in 2G networks also have been considerably slowed down or limited…

Its a big shame and a company with almost 150 million subscribers can do things like these nasty ones……

If it lasts it will lost all its valued customers, throwing their SIM and changing to other networks..

Cant they even attend the calls and provide service for their customers….??????