Airtel Announces New High Speed Broadband Plans

Bharti Airtel has announced the launch of new broadband plans, with minimum broadband speed at 2mbps in its top 10 cities and from 1mbps onwards for all other cities across the country. These 2mbps plans will be offered in Delhi, Noida, Gurgaon, Faridabad, Ghaziabad, Bangalore, Chennai, Hyderabad, Mumbai and Pune.  For all the other markets, across its service areas in the country, the new plans offer a minimum Broadband speed of 1mbps.

Airtel launches new broadband services

Speaking on the occasion Mr. Girish Mehta, Chief Marketing Officer, Telemedia Services of Bharti Airtel said that the company always took the lead in continually bringing in richer experience and higher speeds for customers. Over the past several months they have been continually adding to their broadband service portfolio. Raising the broadband speed threshold with the new broadband plans will help enhance uptake of the array of content and rich media experience on Airtel broadband.

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Airtel claims that the experience comes with enhanced usage limits. The new plans offered by Airtel in their top 10 cities will be Rs. 649 and Rs. 799 for the Alfa 3GB and 6GB plans respectively. For the Max plan it is 10GB, 30GB, 75GB, 150GB plans at Rs. 999, Rs. 1,299, Rs. 1,599, and Rs. 1,999.  Rest of India -1mbps plans will be offered at 3GB, 6GB plans at Rs. 549 and Rs. 699 for the Ace plan. The Mega plan will be priced at 10GB, 30GB, and 75GB plans at Rs. 899, Rs. 1499 and Rs. 1,999 respectively. The 4mbps plans which will be available at select markets will have a Turbo plan of 10GB, 30GB, 75GB and 150GB plans at Rs. 1099, 1,399, Rs. 1,699 and Rs. 2,099.