General Discussions on Bharti Airtel

[Kuttusan]

New prepaid plan from Airtel includes Netflix 84 days validity,3 gb data costs ₹1499

 

[Kuttusan]

Bharti Airtel’s selling and distribution costs to be four times than Jio’s this fiscal - ET Telecom

Bharti Airtels: Jio’s S&D spends are significantly lower than Bharti Airtel’s as it benefits from group company Reliance Retail’s infrastructure, in-house media properties for advertising and lower spends on marketing and branding, said analysts.

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[Kuttusan]

Bharti Airtel looks to prepay bulk of 2015 spectrum dues

The telco's imminent move is the likely trigger for its key promoter company, Bharti Telecom (BTL), to set in motion plans to raise around '8,000 crore (under $1 billion) in multiple tranches via NCDs (non-convertible debentures). "BTL, which owns 38.75% in Airtel, is likely to use the funds...

economictimes.indiatimes.com

 

[Kuttusan]

Airtel promoter co BTL increases stake in telco to 39.59% via Rs 8,301.73 cr block deal

Bharti Telecom Ltd has increased its stake in Bharti Airtel to 39.59% by acquiring an additional 1.35% stake from Indian Continent Investment Ltd through a Rs 8,301.73-crore block deal. ICIL's stake in Airtel has dipped to 4.56%, while Sunil Mittal's Bharti Enterprises and Singapore...

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[Esmail]

Airtel Delhi circle subscriber travelled to Bihar close to the international border and unknowingly latched on to Nepalese network while continuing to remain on Indian soil and got a ₹1 lakh international roaming bill from Airtel.

Delhi woman travels to Bihar, gets Rs 1 lakh international roaming bill from Airtel

Delhi-based author Neha Sinha claims that Airtel cut off her services and left her with an international roaming bill of over Rs 1 lakh when she travelled to a border area of Bihar.

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[kanagadeepan]

Before Jio days, Airtel mostly never harass Postpaid customers as they gave much more ARPU (I was using Solitaire 1799 monthly plan at that time - 8GB data + 10000 minutes). After Jio, when they were forced to reduce tariffs and offer more benefits to the customers, they stopped the discrimination of Postpaid or Prepaid customers and they harass both customers equally, whenever they get a chance.

So nowadays there is NO benefit in taking Postpaid of Airtel. It is always better to take Prepaid in Airtel, to avoid such Bill Shocks.

 

[Harsha1996]

Before Jio days, Airtel mostly never harass Postpaid customers as they gave much more ARPU (I was using Solitaire 1799 monthly plan at that time - 8GB data + 10000 minutes). After Jio, when they were forced to reduce tariffs and offer more benefits to the customers, they stopped the discrimination of Postpaid or Prepaid customers and they harass both customers equally, whenever they get a chance.

So nowadays there is NO benefit in taking Postpaid of Airtel. It is always better to take Prepaid in Airtel, to avoid such Bill Shocks.

Strange I didn’t faced any issues with their postpaid team till now my family using the postpaid services before jio era and my father hates jio postpaid with in a week after switching to it and switched to airtel postpaid again after 90 days

In my opinion airtel postpaid team is way better than airtel black team

 

[kanagadeepan]

Strange I didn’t faced any issues with their postpaid team till now my family using the postpaid services before jio era and my father hates jio postpaid with in a week after switching to it and switched to airtel postpaid again after 90 days

In my opinion airtel postpaid team is way better than airtel black team

Now I am using Jio Postpaid (Rs199 plan - 25GB 4G Data, UL Calls and 5G Data now) for last two years, without any issues. Earlier I had Airtel Corporate Postpaid Connections (24+ including Vehicle tracking) for more than 10 years. Earlier Airtel's Postpaid services were very very good, incl tariffs immune to hikes, no unwanted VAS activations, Priority CC with required knowledge, even my coverage complaints were handled swiftly. But after the entry of Jio, Airtel has gone to full on cost cutting, especially quality CC for Postpaid customers (now it is very difficult to get call connected to human CC within minutes). Earlier my friend was Airtel Postpaid dealer and helped a lot in sorting out issues. But later Airtel removed the power from the dealers, even for small things like Plan change (a big problem for Corp customers, whose plans are totally different from retail customers, as most of the plans are custom made). Now Airtel is having its own Co operated showroom, and it is nothing less than a scam, imho. The guys there converts whoever comes for small things like SIM change (2G to 4G) to Retail Postpaid, giving false promises of permanent discount in rentals, so much so that, there is a joke like, "Airtel Prepaid customers totally avoided using that road, where the Airtel owned Postpaid Co showroom is located".

If you still want a proof for bad experience from Airtel Postpaid team, here is a fresh one.

Airtel Delhi circle subscriber travelled to Bihar close to the international border and unknowingly latched on to Nepalese network while continuing to remain on Indian soil and got a ₹1 lakh international roaming bill from Airtel.

Delhi woman travels to Bihar, gets Rs 1 lakh international roaming bill from Airtel

Delhi-based author Neha Sinha claims that Airtel cut off her services and left her with an international roaming bill of over Rs 1 lakh when she travelled to a border area of Bihar.

www.moneycontrol.com

 

[Kuttusan]

Airtel’s plan to deploy Google parent’s laser tech faces hitch - ET Telecom

Bharti Airtel: Airtel was keen to use the technology as a cost-effective way to deliver wireless backhaul — or connectivity between the telco’s mobile towers and its core network — to ensure uninterrupted 4G/5G coverage in rural and mountainous regions where there aren’t enough towers or...

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[maniotf]

GPRS in the days of 5G. That too non-working data in prime location of the city.

Thanks AT for making me relive the nostalgic moments of 2000s in 2023