Airtel is offering 8mbps broadband internet access for its customers in India. Currently, the speeds on offer range from 256 Kbps to 4 Mbps.

Airtel has invested in the back end infrastructure to deliver these speeds. They already have a Carrier Ethernet Network operational in Delhi, Bangalore and Chennai. In the next phase Mumbai too would be upgraded to a CEN. CEN allows not only provisioning of high speed plans to broadband customers but also delivery of triple play.

Launching the service, Atul Bindal, president, Broadband and Telephone Services, Bharti Airtel, said, “With 8 Mbps, we now offer our customers a truly world-class broadband experience, wherein our customers would be able to download heavy files, view streaming video, enjoy in online gaming, etc. Further, they can browse on multiple windows at the same time without compromising the performance of any application. With 8 Mbps speed, our network will also be IPTV ready.

Airtel’s 8 Mbps broadband service will initially be available in Bangalore, Chennai, Pune, Kolkata, Delhi and the NCR, with a subsequent rollout in Mumbai and Hyderabad, in a few weeks.