Bharti Airtel Ltd.

Private telecom operator companies - Bharti Airtel, Idea Cellular and Vodafone has hiked 2G data tariff in the form of cutting down bundled usage on popular data packs. The private operators have taken this step with a view to promote 3G data services since 3G service is getting lukewarm response from the consumers.

Bharti Airtel is a leading integrated telecommunications company with operations in 20 countries across Asia and Africa. The company ranks amongst the top 5 mobile service providers globally in terms of subscribers.

Idea Cellular, an AV Birla group company, provides Global System for Mobile communications (GSM)-based wireless service at the pan-India level; it is present in all 22 telecom circles.