Bharti Airtel Broadband & Telephone Services (B&TS), a private broadband and telephone service provider in India, and Google have announced plans to work together in bringing web-based services to Airtel’s community of broadband internet customers.
As part of the agreement, Airtel will offer its broadband customers a portal which includes Google Search; Google Gmail; Google Talk instant messaging/ chatting service; Google Docs and Spreadsheets. Besides this, users will be able to share and collaborate in real-time suite of advanced utility and communication applications, on-demand gaming service and music download service.
In addition, customers will get the option to personalise their internet start page with content of individual preference - news, blog postings, weather and other interactive content and services through 'gadgets' as well as content/ information from any site that gives XML feeds.
Airtel Broadband customers will be able to access all these services with a single sign-on free of cost.
