Airtel Announced New Value Added Services for Rural Market: Apana Chaupal a Voice Based Solution

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Airtel announced the launch of their voice service, Apna Chaupal that is designed for the rural and semi-urban market; the service provides Airtel mobile subscribers to get access to information by dialing toll free number 58080.

Subscribers can also listen to Live Aarti’ s, from popular religious places, get access to entertainment services like Hello Tunes, Comedy FM and radio, receive ball-by-ball updates on cricket matches, learn English, seek career counseling and avail on various other value added, services.

According to the company’s press release, the voice based service will provide information in the regional language of the customers on key day-to-day activities including agriculture, devotion, job updates, entertainment, education and health.

The service will enable customers to easily access a host of informative services like learning agricultural techniques, receive instant updates on Mandi rates and Government jobs, listen to Live Aarti’s from popular religious shrines, access entertainment services like Hello Tunes, Comedy FM and radio, receive ball-by-ball updates on cricket matches, learn English, seek career counselling and much more on their mobile phones with just a simple voice call.

The subscribers will be able to access the service in their regional languages via call. Although, 58080 is a toll free number, subscription charges of various service packs will be informed and charged according to usage.

Commenting on the launch Rohit Gothi, CEO – Delhi/NCR, Bharti Airtel said, “At Airtel, it is our constant endeavour to provide life enriching services to our customers across the country especially in the rural markets. In line with this, we are happy to launch the Apna Chaupal service for our customers who can now easily avail all the relevant value added services from a single portal at 58080 without having to memorize the individual dialing numbers of each of the services.”