Airtel offers free intercontinental roaming for African customers

Bharti Airtel has extended 'One Network' service to its African customers with an intent to boost intra-regional trade between Africa and the South Asian nations. African csutomers can now avail free intercontinental incoming roaming services and they can also avail roaming at affordable tariffs in India, Sri Lanka and Bangladesh.

Andre Beyers, Chief Marketing Officer, Airtel Africa said, “Mobile communication has the ability to connect communities. Airtel’s ONE NETWORK now gives our customers the ability to drastically reduce roaming charges whilst travelling within and across the two continents. Our goal is to provide affordable and relevant mobile communication solutions across borders.”

This 'One Network' service enables Airtel customers to use local Airtel SIM cards whilst abroad. It also offers afforable rates for calls made, access data, enjoy value added services and recharge using local top up vouchers in the country visited.

The countries covered by Airtel One Network Services are: Kenya, Burkina Faso, Chad, Congo Brazzaville, Democratic Republic of Congo, Gabon, Ghana, Madagascar, Malawi, Niger, Nigeria, Rwanda, Seychelles, Sierra Leone, Tanzania, Uganda, Zambia, India, Bangladesh and Sri Lanka.