If you have been waiting to upgrade your 3G phone to 4G, here's your chance. Reliance
Jio's bid to capture the 4G services market with low cost bundled 4G handsets has made
telecom giant Bharti Airtel launch its own handsets, according to a PTI news report.
While Airtel is almost finalizing on the vendors to launch the handsets by this year, the price
has been fixed in the bracket of Rs 4,000 - Rs 12,000, as per the sources. The company is
in discussions with Chinese vendors and even held talks with Taiwan based Foxconn, which
has set up its mobile manufacturing plant in India, elaborates the PTI report. However, both
Airtel and Foxconn couldn't be reached for comments. phones for Rs 500 which led to
immediate jump in its subscriber base.
Sources to PTI added that the handset will come with long term bundled plan but may not
be locked only to the Airtel network. "It will support both FDD and TDD LTE network. It will
not be locked handset but will come with bundled plans which the company feels will glue
customers to its network. Expected time line for launch of these handsets is around the
upcoming festive season of Diwali, say October
November," the source told the news agency.
Airtel has launched India's first 4G services in Kolkata around 3 years ago. It has launched
services across cities like Nagpur, Aurangabad, Bengaluru, Pune, Chandigarh, and Patiala
among others. Further, 4G trials have been launched for existing Airtel customers in Delhi
, Hyderabad, Vizag, Madurai, Chennai, Coimbatore and Mumbai.
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