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Airtel launches web portal airtellive.com

First Indian Telco to offer Google Apps on its portal

March 30, 2008

Airtel Telemedia Services, India’s largest private broadband and telephone service provider, today announced the launch of airtellive.com - its new all-in-one internet portal for Airtel customers. airtellive.com marks the first time a Telco in India has made Google products officially available on its portal.

On airtellive.com, customers will receive free access to the company's popular Google Apps messaging and collaboration suite, which includes Gmail email services, Google Docs for documents, spreadsheets and presentations, Google Calendar shared calendaring, and the Start Page feature for creating a customizable home page.  The services will be co-branded and powered by Google and Airtel broadband. Airtel has also partnered with popular content leaders like shaadi.com, 24x7guru, naukri.com amongst others to offer exclusive deals and discounts on the portal.

Elaborating on the announcement, Atul Bindal, President, Airtel Telemedia Services, said “airtellive.com is a milestone in Airtel’s broadband strategy and it builds upon the current broadband ecosystem infrastructure to establish an Internet destination for web applications. It underlines our commitment towards simplifying and adding value to our broadband customers and driving the adoption of broadband in the country”.

The collaboration gives customers easy access to Google's simple and powerful web applications over Airtel’s fast, secure and reliable broadband network.  Users benefit from both companies' product innovation to receive the best customer experience.

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