Mumbai: Telecom major Airtel today launched its 4G service trial in Mumbai with Flipkart as its advertising partner on the service pack with the devices of products like Xiaomi, Motorola, Lenovo, Asus and Huawei. The company has also signed MoU with Samsung India.
Under the partnership with the South Korean handset maker, both the companies will endorse each other’s 4G services at their respective companies.
The company said that the 4G trial services will be accessible to its existing 3G customers at 3G rate. It will utilize the trial to group in customer’s response about the superiority of its 4G service.
Samsung is also in progress of launching new core prime 4G mobile smartphone in Airtel 4G markets.
In a statement Gujarat Ashok Ganapathy Bharti Airtel CEO for Mumbai, Maharashtra and Goa said, "We want our existing customers to be the first ones to enjoy the Airtel 4G experience and are offering them a free upgrade to Airtel 4G at the same price as 3G.”