Airtel has partnered with Karbonn Mobiles to launch
Karbonn A40 Indian, a 4G VoLTE smartphone with support for 22 Indian languages
at an effective price of Rs. 1399. It has also launched a new Rs. 169 plan for
the phone that offers unlimited calling and 0.5GB 4G data per day for 28 days.
Airtel said that you need to do 36 continuous monthly recharges of Rs. 169.
You need to make a down payment of Rs 2899 for the
4G smartphone and make 36 continuous monthly recharges of Rs. 169. You will get
a cash refund of Rs 500 after 18 months and another Rs. 1000 after 36 months,
taking the total cash benefit to Rs 1500.
If you don’t need the bundled plan, you can do any
recharge, but to claim the cash refund benefit, recharges worth Rs. 3000 must
be done within the first 18 months to claim the first refund installment of Rs.
500 and another Rs 3000 over the next 18 months to claim the second refund
installment of Rs. 1000.
The new launch is part of Airtel’s Mera Pehla 4G
Smartphone so Airtel will partner with multiple mobile manufacturers in an aim
to create an ‘open ecosystem’ of affordable 4G smartphones and bring them to
market for virtually the price of a feature phone.
Smartphones under the initiative will be available
at all leading mobile stores across the country and after sales support for the
devices will be provided by the handset manufacturers through their service
network, said Airtel.
