India’s biggest private broadband and telephone service provider, Airtel Telemedia Services has made announcement about the launching of its all-in-one internet portal “airtellive.com” for its customers.
In a declaration, the company said that the portal “airtellive.com” would be the initial portal launched by an Indian telecommunication company
Atul Bindal, Airtel Telemedia Services President stated, “airtellive.com is a milestone in Airtels broadband strategy and it builds upon the current broadband ecosystem infrastructure to establish an internet destination for web applications.”
The customers will get free access to the company's renowned Google Applications messaging and collaboration suite through airtellive.com. Some of the services include Google Docs for documents, Gmail email services, spreadsheets and presentations, Google Calendar, and the Start Page feature for creating a customizable home page.
The broadband of Google and Airtel will jointly co-brand and power the services offered.
In order to offer up exclusive deals and discounts on the portal, Airtel has also signed up a partnership deal with popular content leaders such as shaadi.com, 24x7guru, naukri.com and many others.
The partnership would also provide customers easy access to Google’s simple and influential web applications over Airtel’s speedy, safe and dependable broadband network.
''airtellive.com builds upon the current broadband ecosystem infrastructure to establish an Internet destination for web applications. It will drive towards the adoption of broadband in the country,'' Mr. Bindal added.
Bharti Airtel Limited, a group company of Bharti Enterprises, is India's leading integrated telecom services provider having around 61.91 million customers as of end of February 2008, consisting of 59.67 million mobile customers.
