Puneet Jain 20 July 2009  Airtel has announced a new add-on feature called Special 5 for all its 100 million customers. The 'Special 5' feature empowers Airtel customers to select any five Airtel mobile numbers and stay in touch with them at low rates of 20 paise per minute on local calls and 50 paise per minute on STD calls. This feature is available as an add-on to the customer’s current tariff plans in prepaid.The 'Special 5' feature gives the customer the flexibility to choose any five numbers of his/her choice across both local and STD. | |
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Mobshare is a content sharing service that lets users share mobile photos & videos with all their friends over a single MMS. The user registers for the service via SMS & add friends to broadcast list by sending those mobile numbers as SMS. After which, every MMS sent is automatically broadcast to all friends in the list as an SMS with an embedded link to a WAP page. The WAP page displays the photo & has options for friends to comment, forward & download. Start by SMSing to 55563. More features for advanced users by accessing 
Airtel has launched Value Magic recharges for its customers in Karnataka. These recharges have been designed taking into account the usage patterns of three key segments of users – youth, rural and urban users - in denominations of Rs 149, Rs 249 and Rs 398, respectively. With these recharges, Airtel customers can call any local Airtel mobile at 50 paise per minute and also get one year validity. 
Telecom major Airtel launched its Cloud base Net PC initiative that provides Internet connectivity to users without the need to invest in personal computers (PC). Till now, only the state-owned telecom operators Mahanagar Telecom Nigam (MTNL) and Bharat Sanchar Nigam (BSNL) offered similar products in collaboration with hardware maker Novatium.
Airtel is set to become the first Indian operator with 100 million subscribers nationwide, in all probability within a few weeks. At the end of March, Bharti' Airtels overall subscriber base was 96.6 million. After including the subscribers added in April, its total subscriber base is expected to hit 99 million. Bharti added 32.5 million subscribers in 2008-09 with an average of 2.7 million subscribers per month. | Telecom Operators | Mobile Phones |
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