Bharti Airtel has pioneered 16 Mbps broadband its fastest wireline broadband on DSL in the country. This service, powered by Airtels Carrier Ethernet Network, will be initially available in the cities of Delhi NCR, Chennai and Bangalore with phased roll-out to additional cities of Hyderabad, Pune, Mumbai and Kolkata.
In its press release, Bharti Airtel claimed that Airtel offers its broadband services across 95 cities in the country with approximately 9.92 lakh broadband customers as on December 31, 2008. Airtel provides its broadband service through a fibre backbone of Carrier Ethernet Network with last mile delivery on copper using ADSL2+ technology.
Customers can gain access to 16 Mbps broadband by choosing from 2 Tariff Plans:
- Speed Combo 2999 – receive 16 Mbps broadband speed with monthly data transfer limit of 20 GB along with a fixed line connection at Rs. 2999 per month
- Speed Combo 4999 receive 16 Mbps broadband speed with monthly data transfer limit of 50 GB along with a fixed line connection at Rs. 4999 per month
“Airtel has constantly strived to innovate and deliver high quality products to its broadband customers. We are the leading private broadband service provider in the country and pioneered 8 Mbps broadband. It gives us great pleasure now to be able to introduce the fastest, wired broadband service on DSL. We will be able to offer 16 Mbps broadband to 70% of the households in the 3 cities of Delhi NCR, Chennai and Bangalore,” said K Srinivas, Joint President, Telemedia Services, Bharti Airtel, during the launch of Airtel Broadband 16 mbps.
Hey Ashish,
Thanks for picking up the story. For the same Airtel has also launched the Impatient Ones campaign. The concept of this campaign is to find young achievers from different walks of life.
Thanks again for this great news. 🙂
When its gonna come to nagpur !!
Having looked upon the average(I said average) bandwidth per person of Japan(63 Mbps), I don’t even think that Indians are even trying to increase the speed of broadband in any way(if they do, they increase the prices as well, so that its of no use for an average customer)
@ Slim0123
Of cource the price will be much heigher than now. But it would be more helpful for corporate world and the for internet cafes.
wow that speed wud b rocket fast.
i like to work in a speed and this wud b rocking to use.