India's Bharti Airtel has revealed that it has commenced the rollout of 3G services to north India.
The company yesterday launched 3G in the city of Jaipur, and said it will roll out across all major cities in the state of Rajasthan in the coming weeks.
Bharti Airtel president of mobile services Atul Bindal said the operator had launched 3G services in seven cities to date (including Jaipur) since its initial launch in the state of Karnataka on January 25.
The operator said it intends to be operational across all 13 of the circles it has 3G spectrum in by March.
Bharti paid 122.95 billion rupees ($2.7 billion) for 3G spectrum during last year's auction. The operator ended 2010 with nearly 150 million mobile customers, making it India's largest by market share.