Customers will have the option to choose from both postpaid and prepaid plans or trigger a mobile number portability for porting into the Airtel network.
New Delhi: In a first, Bharti Airtel on Tuesday announced its partnership with quick commerce platform Blinkit for the delivery of SIM cards to its customers within ten minutes.
In the initial phase of this launch, the SIM delivery service will be available across 16 major cities, including Delhi, Gurugram, Faridabad, Sonipat, Ahmedabad, Surat, Chennai, Bhopal, Indore, Bengaluru, Mumbai, Pune, Lucknow, Jaipur, Kolkata, and Hyderabad.
There are plans to add more cities and towns over a period of time, according to a release.
“This collaboration marks a significant milestone enabling, as it does, customers to receive SIM cards at their doorstep in a minimal 10 minutes at a nominal convenience fee of Rs 49,” it said.
After the delivery of the SIM card, customers can activate the number using Aadhaar-based KYC authentication, as per stipulated process.
Customers will have the option to choose from both postpaid and prepaid plans or trigger a mobile number portability for porting into the Airtel network.
The release explained that in order to streamline the process, customers can access the online link and view the activation video for a seamless activation experience.
