(6 April 2009 3:00 pm)

MUMBAI: Bharti Airtel has announced the fastest wireline broadband on DSL in India with a transfer rate of 16 Mbps. This service, powered by Airtel's Carrier Ethernet Network, will be initially available in the cities of Delhi NCR, Chennai and Bangalore with phased roll-out to additional cities of Hyderabad, Pune, Mumbai and Kolkata.

The company is offering two tariff plans of Rs 2999 and Rs 4999 per month with a transfer limit of 20 GB and 50 GB respectively.

Bharti Airtel telemedia services joint president K Srinivas said, "It gives us great pleasure to be able to introduce the fastest, wired broadband service on DSL. We will be able to offer 16 Mbps broadband to 70 per cent of the households in the three cities of Delhi NCR, Chennai and Bangalore."

Airtel delivers its broadband service to customers through a fibre backbone of carrier ethernet network with last mile delivery on copper using ADSL2+ technology. This enables ultra high-speed broadband which is scalable and affordable.

At present, Airtel is offering its services across 95 cities in the country with approximately 992,000 broadband customers as on 31 December, 2008.

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