Airtel, one of the largest telecom network in India, has today announced that it will be offering free 4G data worth Rs. 9,000 for 12 months to users who switch to Airtel 4G. The offer will be available across India starting January 4 and will close on February 28, 2017.
This new offer is applicable to those customers who have a 4G mobile handset, and who’re currently not on the Airtel network. Even an existing Airtel customers, who is upgrading to a new 4G handset, can avail this offer.
Commenting on the newly launched offer, Ajai Puri, Director – Market Operations, Bharti Airtel, said,
We are inviting customers to experience 4G through the year on India’s fastest network. We are seeing increasing penetration of 4G handsets across the country and believe that this attractive offer will provide an opportunity to more and more customers to enjoy high speed broadband on their devices with Airtel.
As a part of this offer, selected customers with prepaid and postpaid connections will get free 3GB data every month till December 31, 2017, with the benefits over and above the pack/plan benefits.
For prepaid customers, the free 3GB data will be added to their monthly quota of 1GB on a Rs. 345 recharge, making for a total of 4GB of data per month. The pack will also offer free calls (Local + STD). The first time free 3GB data benefit can be availed through My Airtel app and data benefits on subsequent recharges will be instant.
For postpaid users, free 3 GB data per month with be available on all MyPlan Infinity Plans. The 3GB data is in addition to regular plan Infinity plan benefits, which already include free voice calling (Local + STD), free SMS and subscriptions to Wynk Music and Wynk Movies. Postpaid customers can claim this additional data through their MyAirtel App.
Airtel says that the pack prices may vary from circle to circle, and customers can only avail the 3GB data per month offer only within the first 30 days of purchasing or upgrading to a new 4G handset.