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AIRTEL SLASHES DATA USAGE RATES BY 90 PER CENT IN HARYANA AND PUNJAB

Chandigarh:Triggering
competition, Bharti Airtel on Wednesday slashed data usage
charges by 90 per cent for pre-paid subscribers in Punjab and Haryana, a day after Vodafone lowered data charges by 80 per cent for its pre-paid and post-
paid customers in three circles.
Airtel said that the volume based charges (VBC) on its recharge
vouchers for 2G data usage of three denominations have been reduced to 1 paisa per 10 KB
from 10 paisa per 10 KB making internet usage affordable for its subscribers.
The recharge vouchers of Rs. 22, Rs. 25 and Rs. 125 carry a free
download limit of 125 MB for five days, 150 MB for seven days and
1 GB for 28 days.
After the free download, the customers were presently charged at 10 paisa per 10 KB
which have been reduced to 1 paisa per 10 KB with immediate
effect, Airtel said in its release.The release said that the validity
of the Rs. 22 and Rs. 25 recharge vouchers has been increased to
30 days and that of Rs. 125 recharge vouchers increased to
90 days.
"Looking at the increasing number of mobile internet users
in both urban and rural areas,the reduction in rates is further going to boost the usage of mobile internet," the release said adding the benefit, however,
would be available only to prepaid customers.
Vodafone had on Tuesday reduced the price from 10 paisa
per 10 KB to 2 paisa per 10KB for Karnataka, UP West and Madhya Pradesh and Chhattisgarh circles for both pre-paid and post-paid
customers using the 2G network.