Airtel ties-up with Huawei for a Lifetime Prepaid offer
New Delhi, July 31, 2008: Bharti Airtel, India’s leading mobile service provider, today reiterated its commitment to drive affordability further in the telecom sector by announcing a handset bundling offer with Huawei for its customers in Delhi & NCR circle. Under the bundling offer a Airtel Lifetime connection, along with Huawei’s T156 handset will be available at a price point of Rs. 1199/- only. This latest initiative aims to further spur the uptake of mobile services in the Delhi & NCR region.
The Huawei T156 handset comes loaded with features such as Speakerphone, alarm clock, calculator, call vibrator, and a 2-year warranty.
Mr. Shashi Arora, CEO - Bharti Airtel Limited, (Mobile Services) Delhi & NCR said, "This latest bundling initiative is a remarkable step in keeping with our philosophy of bringing mobile telephony within reach of more and more people. This innovative offering is a great value for money proposition for our customers in the Delhi & NCR region and we are confident that this will help us consolidate 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 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,