Company Press Release:
 
AIRTEL & NOKIA ANNOUNCE LIFETIME VALIDITY BUNDLING OFFERS
Offers widest range of value-for-money bundling choices
New Delhi, July 30, 2007: Airtel, India’s leading mobile service provider today announced its initiative to drive affordability through bundling with Nokia. This latest initiative aims to further fuel the growth of teledensity and penetrate the mobile market in Delhi & NCR region.

This bundling offers a wide choice of handsets as well as validity. The offers are starting at an attractive price point of Rs. 1599 and are available on four of the mass-selling Nokia mobile handsets – Nokia 1110, Nokia 6030, Nokia 2626 and Nokia 5070. The handsets will be offered with a free Airtel Prepaid SIM Card with validity options ranging from 18 months to lifetime. If that is not all, this offer comes with pre-loaded local calls worth Rs. 300 for Airtel to Airtel.

Additionally, this latest offering comes with a further option for the consumers to choose Lifetime Validity without paying any additional amount by simply sending an sms “LTP” to 121.

According to Mr. Chris Tobit, CEO - Bharti Airtel Limited, (Mobile Services) Delhi & NCR said, "This latest bundling initiative is a revolutionary step in keeping with our philosophy of churning out innovative and value-for-money products to our customers. Our latest initiative will give an added reason for the consumers to enjoy the best value offer and we are sure this will help us maintain our leadership position in Delhi.”
 



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 44.67 million customers as of end of June 2007, consisting of 42.70 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, 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 40,000 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