Bharti Airtelhas launched an online Movie-on-Demand offering called “Airtel Movies“. Partnering withBigFlix, one of India’s largest movie rental services, this service will be exclusively available as an add-on pack for Airtel customers and will offer high quality video content including 500+ movies; 100 television shows; movie trailers and music videos for Rs 229 per month ($5/month) with no additional bandwidth charges. Airtel also notes that this service will be completely ad-free and the charges will be incorporated in your monthly broadband bill....

Bharti Airtel, one of the biggest telecommunications companies in India, is all set to undergo a massive restructuring exercise, merging its mobile, satellite TV and telemedia services into a single entity. According toEconomic Times, this joint entity which currently accounts for 90% of the company’s revenues, has been created to cut costs and boost the efficiency of the company after continuous quarters of falling profits. Also, it is expected to lead to huge job losses, with analysts estimating around 2000 posts to be cut....

Only a few months away from therumoredrelease date of the iPhone 5,Bharti Airtel, India’s largest telecommunications company by users, has finally announced that it will soon sell Apple’s iPhone 4 in India, but the exact release date is still unknown. It doesn’t come as a surprise that Indian tech blogSilicon Indiadescribes the country as “a dumping ground for leftover products by Apple, be it the iPhone or the iPad.” The iPhone 4 will officially be launched in India just now, 10 long months after it was released in the US, just like the iPad, which also took 10 months before the official India release....

It may not be long until Indian mobile users have 4G technology at their fingers as Bharti Airtel’s plan to deploy wireless broadband advances. Bharti, India’s largest operator, has asked Chinese telcom equipment giant ZTE to begin phase one of its TD-LTE network roll-out initially in the Kolkata region only,according to a report from Economics Timesin India. The report cites an official source which explains that, though ZTE will handle the first implementation, it is not guaranteed any other slices of $300 million valued roll-out Bharti has planned....

During a rather historic meeting at the White House on Thursday, automakers, the United Autoworkers (UAW), and other leaders officially expressed their support to Biden administration’s plans to strengthen American leadership on clean vehicles. Through a series of statements, it became clear that the US is finally fully committed to reducing its greenhouse emissions and building a more sustainable transportation model. Ford, GM, and Stellantis announced their common goal to achieve, by 2030, 40% to 50% of their total US sales in electric models (battery electric, fuel cell, and plug-in hybrid vehicles)....