Bharti Airtel launches mCommerce Services in Sri Lanka in collaboration with Bank of Ceylon and BOC Paymate
- Category: Airtel
- Thursday, 12 May 2011 15:30
- Written by MobiGyaan Team
Bharti Airtel Lanka has partnered with the Bank of Ceylon and Ceylon’s mobile payment facility, BOC Paymate, India’s leading mobile payments company and has launched mCommerce solutions to all Airtel subscribers in Sri Lanka.
This will enable the customers to make instant payments of phone and utility bills, account balance inquiries, mini statements, fund transfers and also, post paid account bill payment and pre paid recharges, using their BOC account.
This service does not require any GPRS/EDGE connectivity nor does it require an application download as it is an SMS based service. The text based platform offers Airtel and Bank of Ceylon customers the ability of making utility bill payments for water, electricity and telephone along with account balance inquiries, mini statements and fund transfers through SMS. Additionally, Airtel recharge facilities as well as post-paid bill payment facilities are also available to customers over SMS. Bank of Ceylon customers who are already registered with the Airtel network can continue to use their current connection and enjoy the service over their Airtel mobile.
Amali Nanayakkara, CEO Bharti Airtel Lanka stated “The Airtel mCommerce solution offers all Bank of Ceylon customers the opportunity and convenience of transacting need based services over SMS. Through this co-created initiative to enrich customers of Bank of Ceylon and Airtel we are happy to engineer yet another avenue of service delight while facilitating a paradigm shift in the way customers conduct economic transactions”.
Bharti Airtel launches 'Airtel Money' mCommerce service in Chennai
- Category: Airtel
- Tuesday, 10 May 2011 17:37
- Written by MobiGyaan Team
Airtel Money, a unique mCommerce service by Bharti Airtel which enables a customer to make cashless payments through the mobile phone has been launched in Chennai. The transactions are done quickly and safely and has established partnerships with over 750 prominent merchants across Chennai - including Oriental Cuisines (Benjarong, Zara, Cascade and French Loaf), Univercell, Poorvika, Inox, Bharti AXA and LIC.
The service will allow Airtel customers to pay bills, shop and make payments at these outlets without the need to carry cash or change. Basically the customers of the service can use it in the three following ways:
- Load Cash: Users can load up their Airtel Money account by visiting an Airtel retail outlet.
- Pay bills and recharge: Customers can use this cash to pay bills, and recharge their balance.
- Shop and make payments: Users can pay over-the-counter merchants like kirana stores, chemist, through the mobile phone.
Customers will also be entitled to special discounts and schemes that will be applicable exclusively for transactions made through Airtel Money. As an introductory and limited period offer, current Airtel mobile and DTH customers can now use Airtel Money to make payments and benefit from the following exclusive offers:
- Prepaid – Special talktime offers on recharge denominations of Rs. 75 and Rs. 99 through airtel money
- Postpaid – 5% discount on bill value upon payment via airtel money
- DTH – 5% extra value on recharge of greater than Rs. 500 for airtel money payments
To know more about Airtel Money, Airtel customers can dial 12121 from their mobile phones or visit www.airtelmoney.in
Network issues faced by Airtel customers in Delhi
- Category: Airtel
- Friday, 06 May 2011 13:22
- Written by MobiGyaan Team
Airtel customers in Delhi, and parts of NCR faced disrupt of services yesterday. They were unable to make or receive calls or use any network related services from their mobile phones due to network failure in the evening.
Social networking websites including Twitter and Facebook started popping up with complaints by concerned Airtel customers. The network was reported to be down since 6.45 p.m. and customers were not able to reach Airtel's customer care for a long time.
The network was restored in some parts of Delhi at about 10 p.m. later in the night. The company attributed the problem to a technical outage that affected some of their circuits. An official Airtel statement said, "An unforeseen technical outage had affected services on some of our circuits. As a result, some of Airtel Delhi Mobile subscribers have experienced connectivity issues. The network is up now. We deeply regret the inconvenience."
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[Updated] Militant attacks force Airtel to cease operations in Manipur
- Category: Airtel
- Saturday, 23 April 2011 12:30
- Written by MobiGyaan Team
Update : We just received a statement from airtel stating that their mobile services are running as usual in Manipur. Here is the statement from airtel "Airtel services in Manipur continue to work as usual, allowing our customers to stay connected with friends and family."
airtel has stopped its tower services in Manipur following continuous militant attacks on its towers and employees. The Airtel workers union in Manipur has asked for immediate action and a quick solution to have a sane and peaceful environment at work.
Nilakomol Singh, Advisor for the All Manipur Airtel Workers' Union said, "The incident has scared us. We do not want to die just because we operate the BTS towers in Manipur. We are very worried. We do not know how things will be but for now the towers are not functioning till we reach an amicable solution."
There was recently an attack on an Airtel tower in Langol game village in Imphal. N Rupachandra Singh, the caretaker of the Airtel Tower was at the tower, "One of the militants asked me whether the tower was functional or not. When I told him that it was not operating, he replied that they were there to destroy it. I tried to stop them but they torched the tower and left.”
There have been previous attacks on towers in the years and no legal has been taken to stop the heinous acts by the militants. With lives at stake, an amicable solution is definitely required.
Watch 3D Television with Airtel Digital TV HD
- Category: Airtel
- Thursday, 21 April 2011 14:20
- Written by MobiGyaan Team
Bharti Airtel has announced that their Airtel Digital TV High-Def set-top boxes are 3D ready. This means that the new and existing customers using Airtel Digital HD-TV service will receive the content in 3D. The company has confirmed that Airtel Digital TV’s network to process 3D signals is now complete. However, in order to view the service in 3D, one must have a 3D enabled TV and proper 3D-viewing glasses.
The features of the Airtel Digital TV HD include:
- HD picture clarity with the highest possible resolution of 1920x1080 (2.07million+ pixels with 5 times sharper picture than Standard Definition).Dolby Digital Plus 7.1 surround sound for theatre like experience right in your living room.
- Wide aspect ratio of 16:9 better suited for our eyes which have more horizontal than vertical span.
- HDMI output to get the best HD signals to your HDTV.
- MPEG-4 DVB-S2
- Universal remote
- Blockbuster movies, interactive services like i-Darshan, i-Goodlife, i-Learn, i-Astro and i-News and an array of thrilling and exciting games.
- Multilingual EPG (Electronic Programme Guide)
