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Airtel Slashes STD Rates
By: Tech2.com News Staff   |   Apr 28,2008
Airtel has slashed its STD rates to Re 1.50/ minute from the earlier Rs. 2.65/minute. The new tariffs will be effective from April 30, 2008.

Apart from this Airtel customers will be able to receive calls while roaming at Re. 1/minute, as compared to Rs. 1.75/minute at present. They will also be able to make outgoing local calls at Re. 1/minute.

Manoj Kohli, President and CEO, Bharti Airtel Ltd said, "Airtel has today taken another step to take forward India's telecom story powered by enhanced affordability. 800 million Indians are now closer than ever before. This initiative will particularly benefit rural customers and underlines our commitment to the nation's growth."

Sanjay Kapoor, President, Mobile Services, Bharti Airtel, added, "This initiative spells the end of distance for our existing and prospective customers. With 70% STD customers in India using less than 5 minutes/month on STD calls and 80% mobile customers not using their phones while roaming, we have a compelling customer proposition. I am delighted that we are leading this endeavor, which strengthens our strategic plank of affordability. I am confident that this will drive growth and usage in the Indian telecom industry."

Airtel connects over 3.2 lakh villages and plans to reach 5 lakh by 2010. The telecom company hopes that these tariff initiatives will help catalyze efforts to make telephony more affordable for all customers across the country.
 
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Great news for subscribers in the IT SEGMENTS ! Airtel Enterprise service base subscribers have really wellcomed this move with aplose !
GREAT MOVE AIRTEL !=praveen venugopal. AES KERALA
PRAVEEN VENUGOPAL @ May 05,2008
Should I switch to Airtel or wait for some more time? As Vodafone is not reducing their STD and roaming rates. Vodafone is still continuing with high STD rate Rs 2.65/min.
Ramesh Mayala @ May 03,2008
guyz wat abt the sms charges while on roaming???
sahil @ Apr 29,2008
sir
i have use airtel pre-paid card. i always use STD . tell which one is better for me in std plane at lowest rates and you have some provide card issue for night which can i talk free of cost and what cost of this card.
vidya bhushan singh @ Apr 29,2008
It will certainly benifit the customer. But at the same time and more benifit to the service provider, as the use of sefvices will increase. It should come earlier. Any way it is welcome at all time.
R K Saini @ Apr 29,2008
grate it will help worker who are out of there state and cant afford tarrif topup.
amitendra mishra @ Apr 29,2008
Slashing rates are welcome but what about very poor service and non responsive & arrogant employees of the company in Bihar.
Is somebody listenning in the management of the Company?
Ritu Kumari @ Apr 29,2008
Apart from slashing the roaaming and STD rates, which was long overdue, Airtel should try to improve its service in Bihar, which is really bad and cause great inconvenience to its customers.
Further its policy and rates are not transparent and always with hidden costs. The service charges are also very high and its policies are never made public.
The Customer Care Service staff is non cooperative, ignorant and at times irritating.The Customer Care Centres need great improvement and complaints should be attended to and customers grievances should be redressed within maximum 24 hours if it is not possible to resolve the problems immediately.
Alok Kumar Verma @ Apr 29,2008
its good that airtel has lowered its call rates
vignesh @ Apr 29,2008
sir
i have use airtel pre-paid card. i always use STD . tell which one is better for me in std plane at lowest rates and you have some provide card issue for night which can i talk free of cost and what cost of this card.



plz....
mohit kumar @ Apr 29,2008
Good Initiative.Airtel has to try to slash the ISD rates also.
Tom @ Apr 29,2008
Waiting for national incoming free call,
ayaz @ Apr 29,2008
when will vodafone slash their price of std &roaming
yogesh @ Apr 29,2008
Yeah.. airtell has made their points in bringing the people close to them.. I really appreciate for their movements... Three cheers for AIRTEL.. (I am a AIRTEL prepaid user)
Ajay.P.V @ Apr 29,2008
Gr8 Newz!!!!!!
Sanchit @ Apr 28,2008
Its a good initiative from bharti
Rahul Dwivedi @ Apr 28,2008
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