Airtel’s biggest rival to launch 4G service in Delhi-NCR by Dec 2015

The Vodafone users in Delhi-NCR region will soon be able to switch to 4G services. The second largest telecom operator in India is all set to introduce the high-speed mobile service from December 2015.

Apoorva Mehrotra, Vodafone India business head for Delhi-NCR, said, "We are excited to launch our new 4G services on the superior 1800 MHz band for our customers. Having launched 4G services in several countries, Vodafone has the requisite expertise and experience to ensure that its service in Delhi/NCR will be best in class.”

As per the company’s official statement, Vodafone has invested over Rs 350 crore to modernize, upgrade the existing voice and data network and had also installed more than 550 sites since the last 6 months.

While announcing the successful testing of its 4G services, the Mumbai-headquartered telco said that it has shortlisted key corridors of Delhi-NCR for the 4G roll out that will take place in a phased manner.

The Delhi-NCR region accounts for around 30% of the data revenues and is one of the top data markets for Vodafone in India.

Besides this, Vodafone is investing heavily into high capacity Fibre/backhaul to significantly increase the Internet connectivity to the rest of the world, which will benefit all its data subscribers.

The 4G service, however, has been recently introduced by Bharti Airtel in Delhi-NCR region.
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