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Airtel will deploy over 160,000 base stations nationwide, and also expand its mobile broadband coverage to over 500,000 villages. Under Project Leap, Airtel will introduce several technologies such as small cells, carrier aggregation solutions, Wi-Fi hotspots , and several different spectrum bands to improve network coverage in indoor areas.
As on 30 June 2019, Airtel had 2.342 million broadband subscribers. [78] Airtel Broadband provides broadband and IPTV services. Airtel provides both capped as well as unlimited download plans. However, Airtel's unlimited plans are subject to free usage policy (FUP), which reduces speed after the customer crosses a certain data usage limit.
Virgin Mobile / T24 Mobile: 2009 [21] 2015 Merged into Tata DoCoMo [22] Singtel: 2009 2017 Acquired by Reliance Communications Videocon Telecom: 2010 [23] 2016 Shut down following sale of spectrum to Airtel [24] [25] MTS: 2009 2017 Acquired by Reliance Communications [26] Aircel: 1999 2018 Bankrupt [27] Telenor: 2006 2018 Acquired by Airtel [28 ...
Aircel Ltd. was an Indian mobile network operator headquartered in Mumbai that offered voice and 2G and 3G data services. Maxis Communications held a 74% stake and Sindya Securities and Investments held the remaining 26%. [4] Aircel was founded by Chinnakannan Sivasankaran and commenced operations in Tamil Nadu in 1999.
ONATEL's FasoNet is the country's leading wired Internet service provider, dominating the broadband market with its ADSL and EV-DO fixed-wireless offerings. [23] The mobile operators are offering data services using GPRS and EDGE technology, and third generation (3G) mobile broadband technology was not introduced until 2013 by Bharti Airtel. [24]
Broadband is defined by the Telecom Regulatory Authority of India as "an always-on data connection ... that offers a minimum downlink and uplink speed of 2 Mbit/s". [2] The number of internet users is 895.832 million, out of whom 34.36 million are narrowband subscribers and 861.472 million are broadband subscribers. [3]
In March 2019, the Global Mobile Suppliers Association reported that there were now 717 operators with commercially launched LTE networks (broadband fixed wireless access and or mobile). [ 69 ] The following is a list of top 10 countries/territories by 4G LTE coverage as measured by OpenSignal.com in February/March 2019.
Mobile broadband is the marketing term for wireless Internet access via mobile (cell) networks. Access to the network can be made through a portable modem , wireless modem , or a tablet / smartphone (possibly tethered ) or other mobile device.