Press Release

Airtel now offers FREE SMS

1. Customers to enjoy 100 FREE SMS daily for just Ksh3!
2. Customers are required to send 3 Airtel-Airtel SMS to get their 100 FREE SMS.

Nairobi, 1st February 2012 …Airtel Kenya has today launched a promotion where its customers will get up to 100 SMSs daily. The offer is available to prepaid customers for one month starting today till the 29 February 2012.

Customers only need to send the first 3 paid for SMS to any Airtel number to qualify. Each of the first 3 SMS are charged Kshs1/ per SMS making it only KSh3/- for 100 SMSs daily.  The Free SMS are valid for one day for Airtel-Airtel SMS only. The customers will enjoy the SM’S automatically after sending the 3 SMS. The offer is open to all Airtel prepaid customers and requires no subscriptions.

Airtel Kenya chief operating officer Mr. Shivan Bhargava said, “This offer gives our texting community the opportunity to get more and communicate more with their mates strengthening bonds between friends and families across the Kenya”.

This launches on the back end of the Changamsha Maisha na Airtel Friendzy promotion that ended yesterday, a promotion in which over 2,000 Airtel customers were rewarded with a range of prizes including cash prizes of Cash Kshs1 million and Kshs500,000, Samsung handsets, trips to Old Trafford to watch soccer games at Manchester United, Free SMS top up.

Airtel is also currently running a popular night calling campaign dubbed Sikika na bob, a promotion that offers its customers a preferential rate to call other customers within the network for Ksh1/- per minute from 10:00 P.M. to 6:00 A.M.

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About Bharti Airtel

Bharti Airtel Limited is a leading global telecommunications company with operations in 19 countries across Asia and Africa. The company offers 3G voice & data services, fixed line, high speed broadband, IPTV, DTH, turnkey telecom solutions for enterprises and national & international long distance services to carriers globally. In rest of the geographies it offers mobile voice & high speed wireless internet. Bharti Airtel has been ranked among the six best performing technology companies in the world by BusinessWeek. Bharti Airtel had over 238 million customers across its operations at the end of October 2011. To know more please visit, www.airtel.com