Bharti Airtel has rolled out its 4G service in Bengaluru today. This follows the company's 4G rollout in Kolkata last month. Airtel has partnered with the telecom equipment and device maker, Huawei to build and operate its TD-LTE (time division duplex long term evolution) network in Karnataka. In June 2010, Airtel had secured BWA spectrum in Maharashtra, Karnataka, Punjab and Kolkata for a total consideration of Rs. 3314.36 crores during the Broadband Wireless Access spectrum auction. The company has partnered with different vendors for each deployment: Nokia Siemens Networks, Huawei, Ericsson and ZTE to build and operate its TD-LTE (time division duplex long term evolution) network in Maharashtra, Karnataka, Punjab and Kolkata respectively. Tariff: Airtel informed that they have introduced a new tariff plan called Break free Ultimate for customers in Bengaluru which will offer 30GB data for Rs 2999. Apart from this, Airtel will offer breakfree, breakfree max and breakfree ultra tariff plans announced last month. While Breakfree will offer 6GB data for a monthly rental of Rs 999, breakfree max will offer 9GB data for a monthly rental of Rs 1399 and breakfree ultra will offer 18GB data for a monthly rental of Rs 1999. After the usage of free data, the 4G speeds will throttle down to 128kbps across all plans. Airtel 4G will currently be available for prepaid and postpaid. In order to incentivize the users to opt for 4G connections, Airtel is offering bill discounts to postpaid customers. The customers on Rs 999 plan will receive Rs 167/bill discount…
