Airtel announces ‘Independence Day’ special offer for its customers
New Delhi, August 11, 2008: As the country is preparing to celebrate its 61st Independence Day, Bharti Airtel, India’s leading mobile service provider, today announced the launch of its “Independence Day special offer” for its prepaid customers in the Delhi & NCR region. Through this offer Airtel customers will enjoy the benefit of full talktime with no processing charges, and STD @ Re.1 for a whole month, on recharging with Rs.1947/-.
Customers can avail the Airtel Independence Day offer by recharging their Airtel prepaid mobiles with Rs.1947/- and get talktime worth Rs.1947/-, without paying any processing fees or service tax. This limited period recharge voucher comes with a validity of 1 year. As an added bonanza, customers can also enjoy STD calls @ Re.1 for a period of 1 month through this recharge voucher by sending ‘1947’ as an SMS to 170 (toll free).
Announcing Airtel’s unique Independence Day initiative, Mr. Shashi Arora, CEO – Bharti Airtel Ltd. (Mobile Services), Delhi & NCR said, “The Rs. 1947/- voucher, as its name suggests, symbolizes freedom and independence for our valued customers. In keeping with that spirit, it gives us great joy to announce this recharge voucher for the Delhi & NCR circle, which offers full talktime with a 1 year validity. We are sure that this offer will prove to be highly beneficial for our high value customers seeking value for money.”
About Bharti Airtel Limited:
Bharti Airtel Limited, a group company of Bharti Enterprises, is India’s leading integrated telecom services provider with an aggregate of over 71.77 million customers as of end of June 2008, consisting of 69.38 million mobile customers. Bharti Airtel has been rated among the best performing companies in the world in the BusinessWeek IT 100 list 2007.
Bharti Airtel is structured into three strategic business units - Mobile services, Telemedia services and Enterprise services. The mobile business provides mobile & fixed wireless services using GSM technology across 23 telecom circles. The Telemedia business provides broadband & telephone services in 94 cities and is foraying into the IPTV and DTH segments. The Enterprise business provides end-to-end telecom solutions to corporate customers and national & international long distance services to carriers. All these services are provided under the Airtel brand. Airtel’s high-speed optic fibre network currently spans over 78,540 kms covering all the major cities in the country. The company has two international landing stations in Chennai that connects two submarine cable systems - i2i to Singapore and SEA-ME-WE-4 to Europe. For more information, visit www.bhartiairtel.in