First Winner of ‘Bring Home the Magic Contest’ hosts star at home . Bangalore, March 17, 2009: Bharti Airtel Limited today announced the first winner of its mega promotion ‘Bring Home the Magic’ for its DTH service – digital TV. Mohammed Rafi, an Engineer from Bangalore, is the lucky Airtel digital TV customer who hosted Airtel Brand Ambassador A R Rahman at his home.
Congratulating the winner, Mr. Deepak Srivastava, CEO – DTH, Bharti Airtel, said, “Airtel digital TV has redefined the digital home entertainment experience in the country. This promotion is an endeavor to get closer to our customers and to bring home our core service proposition of service, trust and quality. With this unique offer, we are giving our customers the opportunity to experience magical entertainment at home with their favourite stars and thousands of other exciting prizes.â€
An ecstatic Mohammed Rafi said, “When A R Rahman won the Oscars, I had a dream of being able to congratulate him in person. This dream is now a reality thanks to Airtel digital TV. This day will forever remain truly unforgettable.â€
The ‘Bring Home the Magic’ promotion offers Airtel digital TV customers the once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to win a chance to bring home their favourite stars – A R Rahman, Saif Ali Khan, Kareena Kapoor, Zaheer Khan and Gautam Gambhir. In addition, customers stand a chance to win a number of other exciting prizes including Samsung LCD TVs and Nokia phones. The offer is valid till 31st May 2009 and is open to customers across India (except Tamil Nadu).
Airtel digital TV has brought in many firsts like a Universal Remote for operating both the set top box and TV and the only MPEG4 standard with DVB S2 technology that gives exceptional picture clarity and consistently high quality audio. The Airtel digital TV service is available across the country and is supported by 24×7 customer care available in 8 different languages and a team of 800 professionally trained service engineers. For further details, visit www.airtel.in/digitaltv
About Bharti Airtel Limited:
Bharti Airtel Limited, a group company of Bharti Enterprises, is Asia’s leading integrated telecom services provider with operations in India and Sri Lanka and an aggregate of 93.8 million customers as of end of February 2009, consisting of 91.11 million mobile customers. Bharti Airtel Limited has been voted as India’s most innovative company, in a survey conducted by The Wall Street Journal.
Bharti Airtel is structured into three strategic business units – Mobile services, Telemedia services and Enterprise services. The mobile business offers services in India and Sri Lanka. The Telemedia business provides broadband and telephone services in 95 cities, DTH services and has recently forayed into the IPTV services. The Enterprise business provides end-to-end telecom solutions to corporate customers and national and international long distance services to carriers. All these services are provided under the Airtel brand. Airtel’s high-speed optic fibre network currently spans over 90,205 kms covering all the major cities in the country. The company has two international landing stations in Chennai that connects two submarine cable systems – i2i to Singapore and SEA-ME-WE-4 to Europe. For more information, visit www.bhartiairtel.in.
