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Airtel, a mobile service provider in India, has launched ‘seamless roaming services’ on 3G networks across the world including Japan and South Korea. This drive is set to benefit Airtel mobile customers on 3G compatible handsets while roaming to any of the 3G networks worldwide, particularly customers visiting Japan and South Korea who so far had to change their handsets upon landing in these two countries. Now with a 3G handset they can use international GSM roaming services, Airtel said.
South Korea and Japan have 3G networks based on W-CDMA technology, which allows GSM subscribers to connect to their networks on roaming.
Presently Airtel offers roaming facilities on more than 365 mobile networks across 154 countries.
Airtel’s high-speed optic fibre network currently reportedly spans over 35,000km 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.