Airtel moves all pre-paid customers to per-second payment

NEW DELHI: Bharti Airtel, the country’s largest mobile services provider, said it is moving all its prepaid mobile customers nationally to the more affordable ‘per second bill plan’ starting Monday.

Amajority of Airtel’s pre-paid mobile customers are already on the ‘per second billing plan’, which ensures that customers pay only for the time they use the Airtel network. A subscriber on a per minute plan gets charged for the entire minute even if the call drops after a few seconds. Airtel’s move seeks to address this part of the criticism directed towards the industry at large.

“We continue to invest aggressively in our network quality and deploy new sites to further enhance our network ,” said Ajai Puri, director (market operations, India & South Asia).

While standard base rate plans will be shifted to a pulse rate of per second, users can opt for additional tariff discount packs for discounted per sec or per minute benefits.