airtel, India’s largest telecommunications service provider, Monday said that it has crossed the 50-lakh mark of its customer base in Jammu and Kashmir.
“In a recent development, over 83 percent of all Aircel customers in J&K ported to Airtel, once again underlining Airtel’s position as the most preferred network in J&K,” a spokesperson of the company said.
The company also announced a massive network expansion drive to further scale up its high speed data services across the state. Airtel plans to expand its network footprint in the state to 11,400 mobile sites by the end of first half of financial year 2018-19. The aim is to considerably enhance the network experience for the customers and taking high speed data services deeper into rural and unconnected areas, the spokesperson said.
By the end of September, Airtel 4G will be available at 3000 more locations across the state and this expansion shall be extensively backed by making 4G services to reach some of the remotest locations of the state, he added.
Airtel has been consistently rated as the fastest mobile network in India. Ookla – the global leader in speed tests rated Airtel as India’s fastest network three times in a row (in Q3-Q4 2016, Q1–Q2 2017 and Q3-Q4 2017).