Airtel digitally onboards 50 summer interns from top B-Schools amid nationwide lockdown - ET Telecom

NEW DELHI: Bharti Airtel said that it has kept its commitment to summer interns from top B-schools and has digitally onboarded them even as some companies beginning to rescind their internship and job offers to fight the slowdown. We believe this unique experience will add immense value to the learning of these leaders of tomorrow,” Samit Deb, CHRO, Airtel said in a statement to ET Telecom.Deb said that Airtel has redesigned its Young Leaders Summer Internship Program to make it completely virtual.“Right from induction to mentorship to final reviews, the entire program will run virtually….projects have been designed keeping in mind the remote nature of working and all interns have been provided a learning journey as per their internship streams,” he added. Bharti Airtel recent said that it will pay the basic income for the April month to nearly 25,000 employees of its distribution partners and retail franchise network in the country. In order to help you tide over this tough time, we plan to extend a onetime support for the month of April,” Vani Venkatesh CEO - Delhi/NCR had said in letter addressed to distribution partners in the circle. Introduction Indian telecom industry could lose up to 60 million subscribers in the next six months as incumbents Vodafone Idea and Bharti Airtel aggresively push their prepaid customers to opt for minimum recharge plans. The aim of telcos is to get customers to generate revenue and not remain connected without getting billed, which will help their ARPU — which has declined sharply over the last two years due to brutal price competition. Analysts take on minimum recharge plans Analysts say the estimated drop could be 60 million subscriptions while Rajan Mathews, director general of Cellular Operators Association of India (COAI), also represents all three private telcos, however estimated a ballpark of 25-30 million drop in subscriber numbers in the next six months as SIM consolidation takes place. Telcos erroneous communication to subscribers After Vodafone Idea and Bharti Airtel's puzzling messages sent to their prepaid customers asking them to recharge mandatorily despite having balance in their accounts, users have raised their complaints on the issue. Trai, the telecom regular, has already intervened asking operators to inform subscribers in a clear and transparent manner the date on which the current validity of an existing plan would expire and the following course. Trai stated in its letter, " operators should not discontinue services of such customers who have balance in prepaid accounts equal to minimum recharge amount.”