Bharti Airtel slashes roaming rates

Further intensifying the ongoing tariff war, Bharti Airtel has announced a new plan that reduces Roaming charges on its network by nearly 60 per cent.
Under the Airtel Turbo plan, customers will be charged at 60 paisa per minute for all incoming calls and for all local and STD outgoing calls to an Airtel number while on roaming. For all local and STD outgoing calls to any network other than Airtel, subscribers will be charged at 80 paisa per minute on roaming.
The service provider, which has 115 million customers across the country, had earlier launched Airtel Advantage Plan and Airtel Freedom Plans where both per minute and per second rates were offered to the subscribers.
“Recent research has shown that customers need benefits while travelling and are not satisfied with just local calling benefits,” says Atul Bindal, president, mobile services, Bharti Airtel, in a statement.
To avail of this benefit, Airtel prepaid subscribers will be charged a plan enrollment fee of Rs 98, which gives them an incoming validity of one year. For postpaid customers, Airtel Turbo plan comes with a monthly rental plan.