Airtel broadband launched in Agra

Airtel launched Airtel broadband and telephone services in Agra last week. The city will now form part of the Airtel network of fixed-line services present in Ghaziabad, Noida, Meerut and Lucknow in Uttar Pradesh, besides 10 other states.

Announcing the launch of these services, in Agra, Rohtash Mal, CEO, Airtel Broadband and Telephone Services (North Circle), said Airtel was India's first private fixed line operator and it had made a commitment to its subscribers to bring about the best in network services to its clients.

On the occasion of the formal launch of the services, he said that the company had established its presence in 17 localities of Agra and in the coming few months, it shall be spread over the entire city.

In the process of connecting Agra, he said, the company had laid out 55 km. of OFC and 248 km. of copper cable in a time of barely 4 months and sit had even got hold of an initial base of 2600 subscribers to its credit even before the formal launch of the services.

He said that in Agra, the primary focus of the company was bringing its broadband services to excel those being provided by BSNL and it had already begun efforts in this direction by offering cheap broadband connections to every school of the city, a strategy that could easily increase the penetration of broadband in Agra by the "word of mouth" publicity from school students.

The next step of the company, he said, would be to provide IPTV to its customers through the DSL link itself for which, trial were already underway in Gurgaon and hopefully, the practical application of this project shall begin in the coming few months.

So far in the country, he said, the company had garnered 19.74 million subscribers out of which, 18.45 million were mobile users and it was the only company to provide mobile telephony in all 23 circles of the country.