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The ongoing tariff war in the telecom industry has proved to be a bonanza for customers. Just a day after Vodafone announced slashing of broadband rates by 50%, Airtel has a launched a new plan that offers ‘free unlimited calls to anywhere in India’.

Airtel has announced two new bundled prepaid packs that offer free voice calls across the country, along with data. The cheapest plan starts at Rs 145 and offers free Airtel to Airtel voice calls across India. Users also get 300MB of 3G/4G data along with free local and STD calls in this plan. The pack will also offer 50MB data extra to those customers who are using basic mobile phones ‘ideally suited for web surfing and accessing light social media applications’. The pack comes with a validity of 28 days.

The Rs 345 plan offers free voice calls to customers, both local and STD, on any network across India. The plan also offer 1GB of internet data to customers with 4G-ready mobile phones. Rest of the benefits of the plan are same as that of the Rs 145 plan.

The announcement comes after Reliance Jio last week increased the validity of its ‘Welcome Offer’ (now called ‘Happy New Year’ offer) to March 31, 2017.

“This is another initiative from us to bring innovative bundle offers to our customers in line with our endeavour to provide the great value backed by a superior network experience,” Ajai Puri, Director – Market Operations (India & South Asia), Bharti Airtel said.

Airtel is the largest mobile operator in the country with over 260 million mobile customers. It offers 2G, 3G services in all 22 circles and 4G services in 21 circles. Airtel’s mobile network covers 96% of India’s population.

It is worth mentioning that the above pack prices are for Delhi and may vary a bit in other regions.