· All existing customers of Rs. 495/- Lifetime Prepaid to be migrated to Re. 1/- call rates, without any extra charges.

New Delhi, January 17, 2008: Bharti Airtel, India’s leading telecom service provider, today announced the Rs. 495/- Lifetime Prepaid offer for its customers in Delhi & NCR circle and slashed all local outgoing calls (mobile and landline) to Re. 1/- from the existing Rs. 1.99/- per minute call rate.

Bharti Airtel, which was also the first service provider to introduce the Lifetime Prepaid in India, announced this revolutionary tariff cut for its Delhi & NCR customers that was earlier applicable to only the Rs. 999/- Lifetime customers. With effect from January 15, 2008, all Rs. 495/- Lifetime Prepaid customers will be able to make local outgoing calls (Mobile & Landline) at Re. 1/- per minute and all existing customers will be migrated to the revised tariff plan without any extra charges. Customers will have to recharge with a minimum amount of Rs. 200/- at least once in every 180 days to enjoy the lifetime validity and tariff benefits.

Mr. Shashi Arora, CEO - Bharti Airtel Ltd. (Mobile Services), Delhi & NCR said, “The introduction of the Lifetime Prepaid at Rs. 495 marks our strategic intent to drive affordability and further enhance value in the Delhi & NCR. We as a leading player are committed to deliver enhanced value to our customers through world-class services and tariff plans. We hope this move further broadens the market across all segments and cuts across the geographic and demographic divide.”

Airtel has always been on the forefront in bringing in numerous new products and innovations to the Indian market such as the Lifetime Prepaid and its extensions - Easy Lifetime and Super Lifetime, which have gone a long way in expanding the market and bringing mobile tariffs within reach to millions.

Rs 495 Lifetime Prepaid Tariff Details:

MRP Rs. 495
Talktime Rs. 10
Validity *Lifetime
Local Outgoing Tariff Re. 1/- (Mobile & Landline)
STD Rs. 2.65
SMS Local: Re. 1/-
National: Rs.2/-

About Bharti Airtel Limited:

Bharti Airtel Limited, a group company of Bharti Enterprises, is India’s leading integrated telecom services provider with an aggregate of 55.09 million customers as of end of November 2007, consisting of 52.96 million mobile customers. Bharti Airtel has been rated among the best performing companies in the world in the BusinessWeek IT 100 list 2007.

Bharti Airtel is structured into three strategic business units - Mobile services, Telemedia services and Enterprise services. The mobile business provides mobile & fixed wireless services using GSM technology across 23 telecom circles. The Telemedia business provides broadband & telephone services in 94 cities and is foraying into the IPTV and DTH segments. The Enterprise services provide end-to-end telecom solutions to corporate customers and national & international long distance services to carriers. All these services are provided under the Airtel brand. Airtel’s high-speed optic fibre network currently spans over 55,000 kms covering all the major cities in the country. The company has two international landing stations in Chennai that connects two submarine cable systems - i2i to Singapore and SEA-ME-WE-4 to Europe. For more information, visit www.bhartiairtel.in

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