Company Press Release:
 
Airtel ushers in simplified roaming tariffs
Reduces roaming tariffs across India
  New Delhi, February 14th 2007: Reiterating its commitment to driving affordability in the Indian telecom market, Bharti Airtel India’s leading mobile services provider announced a reduction in roaming tariffs that are at par with existing local call tariffs.

With effect from February 15, 2007 Airtel mobile users can avail significant lower roaming tariffs. All local calls while roaming will be charged at Rs 1.40 per min., STD calls at Rs 2.40 per min and incoming calls while roaming will be charged at Rs 1.75 per minute. These revised tariffs spell huge benefits for the Airtel user as they save close to 55% on local calls and 40% on STD calls. Equally promising are savings on incoming calls while roaming that are around 56%. In addition, the monthly roaming rental of Rs.49 has been waived off.

Mr. Sanjay Kapoor, Joint President, Mobile Services, Bharti Airtel said, “Every Indian travels across the country for work, to meet their social commitments or on vacation. We now usher in an era of simplified roaming tariffs wherein all Airtel mobile users will benefit from our seamless network and have the opportunity to make calls while traveling anywhere in India.”

Type of Roaming Calls ( Rs./Min)        Old Rates       New Rates       Savings upto (%)
Rental  National Roaming                        Rs 49                 Nil                    100%
Outgoing calls  Local/intra circle calls    2.89- 3.09             1.40                   55%
STD(Inter-circle) calls                           3.54 - 3.99             2.40                  40%
Incoming calls  All                                3.54 - 3.99            1.75                  56%
SMS     National                                       3.45                 2.00                  42%
 
 


About Bharti Airtel Limited:
Bharti Airtel Limited is one of India’s leading private sector providers of telecommunications services with an aggregate of 35.51 million customers as of end of January‘07, consisting of 33.73 million mobile customers. Bharti Airtel has been rated among 10 best performing companies in the world in the BusinessWeek IT 100 list.

Bharti Airtel is structured into three strategic business units - Mobile services, Broadband & Telephone (B&T) services and Enterprise services. The mobile business provides mobile & fixed wireless services using GSM technology across 23 telecom circles. The B&T business provides broadband & telephone services in 94 cities. The Enterprise services provide 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 39,000 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