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Wynk Music offers a set tour for Kalki 2898AD sci-fi thriller fans
Mumbai: Music streaming app Wynk Music, continues to offer enthralling experiences to its users. Wynk Premium users now stand a never-before-exclusive chance to enter the world of the latest science fiction – Kalki 2898AD with a tour of the movie set.
To win ‘The Kalki Experience on Wynk’, users have to simply stream the songs of the movie on Wynk Music here: https://open.wynk.in/Kalki. Five winners will be selected from amongst all participating users across the country and offered the once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to experience the enthralling set of the Hindu mythology-inspired post-apocalyptic action thriller. The contest is live until July 7, 2024.
Wynk Music is also the official music streaming partner for the movie. The entire music catalogue of the movie and especially the theme song, sung by Gowtham Bharadwaj and composed by Santosh Narayanan, is available on Wynk Music for users to stream seamlessly. Wynk users can also download ringtones and Hello Tunes of these songs from the Prabhas, Amitabh Bachchan, Deepika Padukone and Kamal Haasan starrer magnum opus. Since the launch of the first song of the movie, there has been a surge in users setting the Hellotunes and Ringtones of these tracks. Users can search for the songs on the Wynk app to avail of these features.
The partnership also solidifies Wynk Music’s commitment to serve all audiences across all languages, beyond Hindi. The 4 south languages – Telugu, Tamil, Kannada and Malayalam hold close to 30 per cent of the consumption of the app. In recent years, there has been a positive trend of songs from regional languages performing across India.
All Wynk Premium users on the app will be eligible to participate in the Kalki contest. Wynk has been dedicated to not only providing top-tier musical experiences but also actively fostering closer bonds between fans and the artists they adore, allowing fans to explore opportunities to make their dreams come true, whether it’s meeting their favourite artist or engaging with their favourite movies. In line with this, Wynk has been organising many such events like giving its premium users a chance to exclusively jam with international music sensation – Ed Sheeran or have a “Coffee date with Jubin Nautiyal”.
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Airtel crosses 650 million customers to cement its place as world’s second largest telco
The Indian telecoms giant, now spanning 15 countries, is chasing the top spot with satellites, smartphones and mobile money
NEW DELHI: Numbers like these do not come around often. Bharti Airtel has crossed 650 million customers, making it the world’s second largest telecom operator by mobile customer base, according to GSMA Intelligence. Only one rival sits ahead of it. The gap, Airtel intends to close.
Gopal Vittal, executive vice chairman of Bharti Airtel, was characteristically measured. “Achieving the milestone of 650 million customers to be the second largest operator globally is a great responsibility for us to serve our customers better every day,” he said. “Every customer interaction is an opportunity to earn trust and deliver value.”
The scale of the operation is striking. In India, Airtel serves over 368 million mobile customers and was the first operator to launch 5G Plus services. It now reaches over 13 million homes with high-speed internet and a further 15 million households through its Digital TV offering. Its enterprise arm, Airtel Business, runs mission-critical infrastructure across cybersecurity, cloud, IoT and SD-WAN, underpinned by over 400,000 route kilometres of subsea fibre and a string of green data centres. The company has also announced a push into non-banking financial services, using its data insights to offer personalised credit products through the Airtel app.
Africa tells an equally ambitious story. Airtel Africa serves over 179 million customers across 14 countries, with Airtel Money, its mobile financial platform, counting over 52 million users. In a continent where traditional banking remains out of reach for millions, Airtel Money is not a product. It is infrastructure.
Beyond terrestrial networks, Airtel is reaching upward. Partnerships with Eutelsat OneWeb and SpaceX give it access to a constellation of low earth orbit satellites, pushing high-speed, low-latency broadband to remote maritime, aviation and rural areas that cables will never reach.
Airtel’s networks now cover over two billion people across 15 countries. The company that began as an Indian mobile operator has become something rather larger. At 650 million customers and climbing, it is not finished yet.
