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Airtel started its 4G in Andaman and Nicobar on 15 January 2019. Airtel extended its 4G network to 15 km off India's coastline, following a request by the Indian Navy. Īs of June 2019, Airtel provides 4G coverage in all India in 22 circles. Airtel had 95,173,000 4G subscribers as of June 2019. Airtel 4G trials has been started in Delhi from 18 June 2015. Airtel has started their 4G services in Karnal and Yamunanagar in Haryana on 16 June 2015. The first city to get the service was Bangalore. Īirtel launched 4G services on mobile from February 2014. Airtel obtained 4G licences and spectrum in the telecom circles of Delhi, Haryana, Kerala and Mumbai after acquiring Wireless Business Services Private Limited, a joint venture founded by Qualcomm, which had won BWA spectrum in those circles in the 4G spectrum auction. The Kolkata launch was followed by launches in Bangalore (), Pune (18 October 2012), and Chandigarh, Mohali and Panchkula (25 March 2013). On 10 April 2012, Airtel launched 4G services through dongles and modems using TD-LTE technology in Kolkata, becoming the first company in India to offer 4G services. Airtel's TD-LTE network is built and operated by ZTE in Kolkata and Punjab, Huawei in Karnataka, and Nokia Siemens Networks in Maharashtra and Goa. The company was allocated 20 MHz of BWA spectrum in 2.3 GHz frequency band. Airtel paid ₹33.1436 billion (US$440 million) for spectrum in 4 circles: Maharashtra and Goa, Karnataka, Punjab and Kolkata. On, the broadband wireless access (BWA) or 4G spectrum auction in India ended. Then onwards Airtel will provide only 2G and 4G connectivity in the country.
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In an event, Airtel confirmed that it will shut down their 3G network all over India and re-farm the spectrum towards 4G by the year 2020. In Kolkata users can only access 4G and 2G networks. In June 2019, Airtel closed their 3G network in Kolkata. In October 2017, Bharti Airtel announced its acquisition of Tata Docomo having roughly 40 million subscribers. Airtel had about 5.4 million 3G customers of which 4 million are 3G data customers as of September 2012. Īirtel 3G services are available in 200 cities through its network and in 500 cities through intra-circle roaming arrangements with other operators.
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On 27 July 2011, 3G services were launched in Kerala's 3 largest cities – Kochi, Kozhikode and Thiruvananthapuram. On 27 January 2011, Airtel launched 3G in Chennai and Coimbatore in Tamil Nadu. Īirtel launched 3G services in Bangalore on 24 January 2011. Chinese telecom equipment vendor Huawei Technologies was introduced as the third partner for three circles. While Airtel awarded network contracts for seven 3G circles to Ericsson India, NSN would manage networks in three circles. These vendors would plan, design, deploy and maintain 3G–HSPA (third-generation, high-speed packet access) networks in 13 telecom circles where the company had won 3G licences. On 20 September 2010, Bharti Airtel said that it had given contracts to Ericsson India, Nokia Siemens Networks (NSN) to set up infrastructure for providing 3G services in the country. Airtel is fined by DoT 3.50 billion for not stopping offering 3G Services through Roaming Pacts outside its Licensed Zones in Seven Circles. This gives Airtel a 3G presence in all 22 out of 22 circles in India. Airtel also operates 3G services in Maharashtra & Goa, Kolkata, Gujarat and Punjab circles through an agreement with Vodafone Idea. On, the 3G spectrum auction was completed and Airtel paid the Government of India ₹123 billion (US$1.6 billion) for spectrum in 13 telecom circles of India: Delhi, Mumbai, Andhra Pradesh, Karnataka, Tamil Nadu, Uttar Pradesh (West), Rajasthan, West Bengal, Himachal Pradesh, Bihar, Assam, North East, and Jammu & Kashmir. Īirtel operates in all telecom circles of India. Airtel was named India's second most valuable brand in the first ever Brandz ranking by Millward Brown and WPP plc in 2014. The company has a submarine cable landing station at Chennai, with a connection to Singapore. It also acts as a carrier for national and international long distance communication services. Bharti Airtel Limited is part of Bharti Enterprises and is headed by Sunil Bharti Mittal.Īirtel is the first Indian telecom service provider to achieve Cisco Gold Certification.
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The brand is operated by several subsidiaries of Bharti Airtel, with Bharti Hexacom and Bharti Telemedia providing broadband fixed line services and Bharti Infratel providing telecom passive infrastructure service such as telecom equipment and telecom towers. Fixed line and mobile telephony, broadband and fixed-line internet services, digital television and IPTVĪirtel India is the second largest provider of mobile telephony and second largest provider of fixed telephony in India, and is also a provider of broadband and subscription television services.