Airtel slashes broadband plans price by up to 10%, loads additional data

Telecom operator Bharti Airtel on Thursday rebranded its fixed-line broadband service as 'Airtel Xstream Fibre' and reduced prices of some of the plans by up to 10 per cent.

All the 'Airtel Xstrema Fibre' plan will now come with minimum of 100 megabit per second speed in the range of Rs 799 to Rs 3,999 with video entertainment platforms bundled with them.

"Airtel Xstream Fibre plans offer even faster speeds, more data and can be upgraded to unlimited data benefit depending on the requirements of customers," Bharti Airtel Chief Marketing Officer Shashwat Sharma said in a statement.

Except the basic plan, Airtel has bundled access to Netflix for three months, Amazon Prime for 12 months and unlimited Zee5 and Airtel Xstream content in all the plans.

The company has also given option to convert all the plans to an unlimited scheme by paying extra Rs 299.

Bharti Airtel is the country's second largest fixed-line broadband service provider after state-run BSNL with 2.41 million ...