Airtel starts overseas roaming scheme with free incoming calls

Telecom operator Airtel today launched 10-day international roaming packs starting at Rs 1,199 with free incoming calls and reduced mobile Internet rack rate by 99 per cent to Rs 3 per megabyte.
"The 10-day roaming pack starts at Rs 1,199 for Singapore and Thailand, offers unlimited free incoming calls, 2GB data, 250 minutes of free calling to India and 100 free SMSes daily," Airtel said in a statement.
The company has launched these special packs for people travelling to Singapore, Thailand, the US, Canada, the UK and the UAE.
The 10-day pack for US-Canada and the UK is available for Rs 2,999 and offers unlimited free incoming calls, 2GB data, 250 minutes of free calling to India and 100 free SMSes daily.

The plan for the UAE will also cost the same with similar benefits, except that the subscriber will get only 250 minutes of free incoming calls.
He said that there are still different types of customers

who are using Airtel network. Which will help the company in game to come back.
"Thirdly we are aware 4G, which is a smaller market, we need to bundle in a much more aggressive way and look at what Reliance JIO has done is offered lot of bundled plans. We will also look at those bundles," Vittal said.
Bharti Airtel today posted a 4.9 per cent drop in consolidated net profit at Rs 1,461 crore for the September quarter, mainly on account of increased interest costs and devaluation of Nigerian currency. The company said that its growth also slowed down due to launch of Reliance Jio services.

Jio is offering unlimited phone calls free for lifetime and unlimited 4G mobile internet free till end of this year.