Airtel introduces lower incoming roaming tariffs for its customers visiting South Africa during the ICC Champions Trophy

International incoming roaming at Rs 10 per minute for all Airtel customers visiting South Africa during the ICC Champions Trophy
Available to over 110 million Airtel customers
Yet another compelling reason from Airtel offering huge benefits to the International Travelling Community

New Delhi, September 23rd, 2009: Bharti Airtel, Asia’s leading integrated telecom services provider today announced a special roaming benefit for all cricket enthusiasts visiting South Africa during the ICC Champions Trophy from September 22 to October 5, 2009.

All Airtel mobile subscribers will be able to avail of international roaming incoming calls at a remarkable rate of Rs 10 per minute during the Champions Trophy in South Africa. The offer will be available on the MTN-South Africa network for both Airtel Prepaid and Post paid customers. All other calls, SMS & data charges remain unchanged.

“Cricket has a huge fan following in India and we are sure that many Airtel users who are cricket enthusiasts are in South Africa to enjoy the ICC Champions Trophy.”, said Mr. Shashi Arora, CEO – Bharti Airtel Limited, (Mobile Services), Delhi & NCR. “We are delighted to introduce this promotional roaming offer that will empower the Airtel user to stay in touch with their friends and family back in India during the ICC Champions Trophy.”

All Airtel customers visiting South Africa during the Champions Trophy needs to log onto the MTN network. Once they have selected this network they will get a “Welcome SMS” informing about the special tariff. ”You are logged on to MTN South Africa. Enjoy incoming calls on MTN-SA@Rs 10 / min. Offer valid during Champions Trophy (22 September to October 5). For details visit.www.airtel.in”

About Bharti Airtel Limited

Bharti Airtel Limited, a group company of Bharti Enterprises, is Asia’s leading integrated telecom services provider with operations in India and Sri Lanka and an aggregate of over 110.89 million customers as of end of August 2009, consisting of 107.99 million mobile customers. Bharti Airtel has been ranked among six best performing technology companies in the world by BusinessWeek.

Bharti Airtel is structured into three strategic business units – Mobile services, Telemedia services and Enterprise services. The mobile business offers services in India and Sri Lanka. The Telemedia business provides broadband, IPTV and telephone services in 95 cities. The Enterprise business provides end-to-end telecom solutions to corporate customers and national and international long distance services to carriers. All these services are provided under the Airtel brand. Airtel’s national high-speed optic fibre network currently spans over 104,540 Rkms covering all the major cities in India. The company has two international landing stations in Chennai that connects two submarine cable systems – i2i to Singapore and SEA-ME-WE-4 to Europe. For more information, visit www.airtel.in

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