Bharti Airtel plans to launch its 4G services in Bangalore within 30 days, an executive said, after the country's largest mobile phone carrier launched the service in Kolkata earlier on Tuesday.
Bharti and its rivals paid a total Rs 38,543 crore to buy fourth-generation (4G) wireless broadband spectrum in a 2010 government auction, which saw bids at much higher prices than initially expected.
Bharti managed to win 4G spectrum in just four of the country's 22 telecoms zones in the auction, paying Rs 3,314 crore for spectrum in the Maharashtra, Karnataka, Kolkata and Punjab zones.
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