Chennai Floods: Telecom Companies Offer Free Calls, Mobile Data

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Corporates such as Bharti Airtel, Reliance Communications, Vodafone and taxi operator Olacabs have come out to provide relief to thousands of people stranded across Chennai because of heavy flooding in India's fourth largest city. Even state-run companies like BSNL are chipping in.

Telecom Minister Ravi Shankar Prasad said state-run BSNL would not charge anything for a week. If monthly bills are not paid, there won't be disconnection until further orders, he said.

To help people reach officials and their loved ones, mobile major Bharti Airtel announced auto credit of upto Rs 30 talk time, free of cost credit of 10 minutes of Airtel-to-Airtel calling and free of cost credit of 50MB mobile data for its prepaid customers.

Postpaid customers will get more time to make payments and will experience uninterrupted services, the company said. Bharti added that it is "relentlessly" working with local authorities to enable smooth mobile communication for Airtel customers across the city.

Reliance Communications is also offering customers 10 minutes free talk time to any network across the country, along with free 50MB mobile data for prepaid customers. RCom is also offering free charge of Rs 10.

Vodafone is also doing its part and has a similar offering along with free 100MB mobila data & ‘chhota credit’ of Rs 10 to prepaid Chennai users


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Airtel, Voda offer free talktime, data

Telecom operators, including Bharti Airtel and Vodafone, will offer free talktime and data to people in Chennai. Airtel is offering auto approval of 'Talk Time' credit up to Rs 30 and 10 minutes credit for Airtel-to-Airtel calling for prepaid mobile customers with a validity of 2 days .

Also, 50 MB of will be given to its prepaid mobile customers with a validity of 2 days free of cost. On the other hand, Vodafone is offering pre-approved 'chhota credit' of Rs 10 to all prepaid customers and a credit of 10 minutes for Vodafone to Vodafone calling. In addition, free 100 MB mobile data is being offered to all customers with validity of two days.

For postpaid customers whose bills are due for payment immediately, the time to make the payment is being extended, Vodafone said in a statement.

Airtel also said the company is working with the local authorities to enable smooth mobile communication for Airtel customers across the city.
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