Airtel launches 4G services in Moga Punjab

Airtel is looking to move forward the other telecom service providers by providing the fastest services to all its consumers, Airtel today launched the 4G services in Moga, Punjab. In Punjab now along with Moga, other cities which have the 4G services are as follows:

• Chandigarh
• Mohali
• Panchkula
• Ludhiana
• Jalandhar
• Amritsar
• Hoshiarpur
• Phagwara
• Kapurthala 
• Patiala.

Announcing the launch of the services, Airtel CEO for Punjab, Haryana and HP, Manu Sood, said customers can now experience an all new browsing experience with Airtel's 4G home Wi-Fi.

Flush with an investment outlay of $3 billion (approximately Rs. 1.87 lakh crores) a year on networks, telecom major Bharti Airtel plans to double its 4G network by next fiscal as it gears up to take on competition, including the much-awaited foray of Mukesh Ambani-led Reliance Industries group.

Bharti Airtel Chairman Sunil Bharti Mittal said during MWC,

"We have decided to roll out (4G). We have 20,000 base stations now, in March, and we will be doing another 20,000 next year,"

Mittal said funds would not be a constraint for the company's expansion plans as it is spending $3 billion every year on networks alone, excluding spectrum, and its 2G and 3G rollouts are among the most expensive in the country