Airtel Broadband Services have now entered the Website Designing Services where they are going to help their customers built small to business type websites easily with their WYSIWYG editer. The service is currently limited to their Broadband customers only who can signup or Register by entering their DSL login ID and password. There are three different price packages ranging from a 5 Page website to Unlimited Pages Website with the pricing based on monthly basis and a fixed setup charge.
Features :
- Easy-To-Use: Build your website in 3 easy steps. Pick a template, Customize it and Publish the website online. View Design Gallery
- Create a Stunning Website: Over 15,000 high quality template possibilities and 100+ unmatched features to build a stunning website
- Sell Products Online: Add a shopping cart to your website with offline and online payment options.
- Drive traffic to your Website : With our Website Marketing Tools Ex. SEO, Traffic Analyzer, Sitemap etc.
- One-Stop Solution: All packages include Website Builder, Free Domain Name, Hosting, Editing tool etc.
- Country´s only Mobile Website Builder: Reach a vast segment of users searching through a mobile by building a mobile website that works across all mobile phones.
- Affordable and Risk Free: Packages start as low as Rs.250 per month. 30-Day Free Trial available for all packs. Compare Packs
- Unlimited Disk space and Bandwidth: Reliable and secure hosting with unlimited disk space and bandwidth
- Update Websites Anytime, Anywhere: Maintain and update your website yourself using our editing tools, anywhere, anytime without depending on a web designer.
- Professional Support: 24*7 phone based support.
Packs & Pricing : Website Builder
| Standand Pack | Professional Pack | E Commerce Pack | |
| Ideal for a first website | Ideal for a growing business web site | Ideal for businesses wanting to sell online | |
| Monthly Fee | Rs.250 | Rs.500 | Rs.1,000 |
| One-Time SetUp Fee | Rs.500 | Rs.1,000 | Rs.4,000 |
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| Domain Name / Website Address (New Registration or Transfer) | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Website Builder | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Web Hosting (Disk) Space | Unlimited | Unlimited | Unlimited |
| Data Transfer / Band Width | Unlimited | Unlimited | Unlimited |
| Maximum Number of Pages | 5 | 20 | Unlimited |
| Website Editor to Update website | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Online Site Statistics | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Daily Website Backup | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Customer Support @ 121 | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Monetize your website with Google AdSense | No | Yes | Yes |
| Design Template Possibilities | 10000 | 15000 | 15000 |
| Flash Intro Creator | No | Yes | Yes |
| Sell Products Online – Ecommerce Features | No | No | Yes |
| Payment Gateway Integration | No | No | Yes |
| Import as Mobile Website | No | No | Yes |
| Website Builder Features | |||
| Quick Start Wizard | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| WYSIWYG HTML Editor | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Image Editor | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Image/Logo Incorporation | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Password Protection | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Number of Design Templates | Limited | All | All |
| Template Categories | Business / Personal | Business | Business |
| Flash Intro Wizard | No | Yes | Yes |
| Photo album | No | Yes | Yes |
| Feedback Form | Simple | Advanced | Advanced |
| Create Stand alone / Hidden pages |
No | Yes | Yes |
| Goodies Features (Widgets) | |||
| Tell A Friend | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Animated Cursors | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Hit Counters | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Google Search | No | Yes | Yes |
| News | No | Yes | Yes |
| Yahoo Presence | No | Yes | Yes |
| Calendar | No | Yes | Yes |
| Mailing List | No | Yes | Yes |
| Marketing Features | |||
| Search Engine Optimization | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Analyse Website traffic using Google Analytics | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Guest book | No | Yes | Yes |
| Incorporate Banner and Footer | No | Yes | Yes |
| Monetize your website with Google AdSense | No | Yes | Yes |
| Sell Products Online – Ecommerce Features | |||
| Shop Wizard – Create Shop Pages | No | No | Yes |
| Product Catalog | No | No | Yes |
| Catalogue Import | No | No | Yes |
| Payment Gateway Integration | No | No | Yes |
Overall everything looks good, but i would like the Customers ask Airtel these questions before they opt in for the service.
1. Why is Google Adsense not allowed in the small package? Is the restriction only made to make sure that the customer upgrades?
2. Is adding Titles, Keywords & Description to your Web Pages called as Search Engine Optimization?
3. Is the web hosting offered by them Linux or Windows based?
4. If you dont have a DSL ID and still want to signup for, is it possible?
5. If the service is based on the mentioned 15000 templates what are they charging for on the monthly basis?
Overall a simple cloned template based site with Airtel would cost you 250 * 12 + 1000 = 4000Rs which is not really worth the money because of complete limited features. Good Luck to airtel and their services but its better if they continue their Broadband services and improve them.
Even simple wordpress cannot be installed because there is no listing of databases mentioned in the list.
What about who wishes to run other cms/blogs ?
There is no mention of ftp or ftp accounts or control panel they provide.
Practically speaking there’s nothing like “unlimited” disk space or bandwidth. No provider on earth can give it. It has to be “unmetered”
Regarding the online store, ccAvenue costs double the rate these guys have mentioned as set-up fee. So, I think they are no going to add ccavenue gateway (indian debt card payment access gateway) to the business plan users.
What if you discontinue using the broadband service?
Do they allow you to transfer the domain with no charges later?
Marketing features, goodies and website builders are trash.
This is totally ridiculous.
I guess Airtel has there own datacenter in India (not sure) and is planning to take advantage of the dusted servers lying.
@Amit: It doesn’t really matter if the server is linux/windows. ‘cos they are no way providing database feature
It think it will be just useful for people who simply needs a website on their names or company. Not useful for professional bloggers.
Then, it is not worth INR 3,500 a year 😀
may i bulid website same price
Not a good deal from this type of company. There are many misleading features.i.e. google analytics which is free service for all….etc..
they does not allow us to use adsense in 250 plan,it is not good
250 figure is just to catch the attention some thing like marketer use “free” The best package seems to be the top one, though hard to say what kind of quality they will actually provide.
Amit, the features of their hosting does in now compare to a professional hosting which is much cheaper and more feature backed. Airtel will face very stiff competition from a lot of smaller players who are established in the hosting business. These days customers dont JUST need a site builder software but they want the flexibility to do a lot of things which Airtel simply ain’t giving. I have made a comparision between airtel and professional hosting here
pl deactivate as i dont know how it was created