Bharti Airtel Ltd.

Bharti Airtel will commercially launch 3G, or third-generation, services by the end of next month. Bharti won spectrum (radio waves) for 3G services in 13 of the country's 22 telecom service areas in the auction held by the government earlier this year.

Its competitor, Tata DoCoMo, the GSM arm of Tata Teleservices has already launched 3G services in nine circles where it has spectrum. Besides, state-owned firms BSNL and MTNL are offering 3G services in the country. Another major private player, Vodafone, plans to launch the services in the January-March quarter of 2011.crackcrack