Gabu

NEW DELHI, Oct 30 (Reuters) - Airtel, India's top mobile operator, said on Friday it had launched a per-second billing plan, a reaction to increasing price competition in the world's fastest-growing mobile market.

Customers will be charged 1 paise per second for all local and national long-distance calls within Bharti's network and 1.20 paise per second for calls to other network, it said. A paise is one-hundreth of a rupee (2 U.S. cents).

Bharti Airtel is facing tough competition from smaller rivals, including Tata Teleservices which has grabbed market share with its per-second billing system.

goldygold

Ha.. This is what im waiting for...
In which state it was launched?
Give more details if possible...

kooldude_007

Launched Pan India...
And i have contact the customer care and they said dat we need to recharge with 69 and get 1 year validity of the same...

coolguy010

If we have to recharge for 69 , 1 yr validity & 1.2p / onnet calls
then i think Airtel has launched this only bcause Trai had made per second plan mandatory

Gabu

TRAI hasn't done anything. Its because of competition. Everyone want to share the growth that Tata Docomo is enjoying.

Docomo 10m user add in 10 states.
Airtel 8m user add in 22 states.

rajeevsharma8888

In Delhi,
Rs. 94 recharge needed.

Still
I think Aircel is better,
On Rs. 1 recharge.
they are giving 1p/1s local, STD 10000 sec (166 min) @ 1p/1s, after that 2p/1s.

Airtel is just looting the customers, it never comes up with new schemes on its own.

Come MNP, i will switch definately...

sujin

A day will come soon when we can demand the tariff we need to the operators. Am waiting for that day. This offer from airtel is eyewash because indirectly they are making us pay 60ps for all A2A local calls and 72ps for all A2O local calls besides that we need to recharge with a amount of Rs.69 which has a tariff validity of one yr. Still docomo or aircel is the best I feel.

goldygold

Airtel was still in the dream that they would be a leading operator forever... For any cause they are not willing to reduce the cost.

stiwari

State Exisisting New customers
HP 64 66
DEL 94 99
CHN 64 69
AP 66 67
KK 64 66
MP 64 69
PB 94 97
HAR 64 65
MUM 64 69
UPW 64 69
GUJ 76 82
MAH 64 69
KER 64 67
TN 64 69
KOL 64 67
UPE 64 69
JK 78 79
WB 64 67
BH 73 74
OR 68 69
RAJ 70 71
AS 75 77
NE 75 77
Tariff validity one year

prasad22

Airtel went the Tata Docomo way and launched the per sec pulse....but before the airtel subscribers rejoice i wanna point out tht even this per sec pulse from Airtel (which is clearly copied from Tata docomo) has not been 'copied' in the right manner...to be clear Airtel is actually charging its users to get this per sec pulse plan...and the rates too differ from circle to circle..i think in the more lucrative circles it 90 rs in the others its 66rs....also this 1p/sec applies only for airtel to airtel users..and for calling to other numbers is 1.2p/sec!...but the real bummer is that this is only applicable for Airtel prepaid users....i think if airtel intended to copy Tata docomo they shuldve atleast copied them in the right manner..instead they opted for this half baked version of the original Tata Docomo plan!.

Gabu

Airtel Freedom Plan

110 mn people across India use Airtel, making it the largest network in the country.
Airtel now introduces the Freedom Pack - Call any Airtel number anywhere in the country, local or STD at just 1p/ Sec and enjoy the advantage of being on Airtel
Pay per second plan available for all existing & New customers. Tariff details -
» All A2A local and STD calls at – 1p / sec
» All Airtel to other calls at – 1.2p / sec
» ILD / SMS / Roaming charges will continue at current tariffs and 60 sec pulse
» 1 year tariff validity

Buggers didn't mention the recharged amount required.
& again the highest amt recharge required for Delhi.

goldygold

Is it possible to activate sms booster pack when we are in this plan?!

goldygold

They had Mentioned "SMS charges will continue at current tariffs" in their Official Website???!!!!

http://www.airtel.in/freedomplan/index.html

manivas

Airtel has best network coverage of all mobile operators and had the maximum subscribers This offer will reduces the drop outs from airtel network ( A2A 1p/sec)

sujin

Even this tariff validity of one year will be mostly an eye wash coz if they are to survive nxt year when MNP comes in they should extend it without any further recharges. Good to see the oldies improving. Anyway my doubt now is if somebody makes an A2O call for 29 secs how much will he be charged? 34.8 ps? Hows that possible?

mkmobile

Airtel says that they are leaders then why are they following competition????

They are changing the meaning of leader ha ha ha

Gabu

@sujin balance will be shown or calculated till four digits after decimal for rupee or two digits after decimal for paisa.

sujin

If that's the case it is once again a hit for the customer coz if they start rounding off the amount per call lik this it will cost more as a whole to the customer coz of the rounding off to the nearest decimal point.