A Bong's Kitchen

Day before yesterday my husband Biswajeet came home very excited and asked me to get ready at once. Seeing him so happy, I too got excited. First I thought may be he had got an increment in his salary, and so he was going to treat me with a lavish dinner or he would gift me something of my choice. Without asking a question or wasting any time, I got ready immediately. But you know how impatient we women are? I couldn't control myself any more and so asked him where we were going but he only smiled and didn't answer me.

Ten minutes later, we were at the Airtel outlet near our house. What? My husband had brought me to the Airtel shop and not to a clothing store or a restaurant! I was totally surprised and had no idea why and what we were doing there.  I refused to enter the Airtel outlet. It had ruined my mood and Biswajeet could read that from my face.

He asked, "Kunmun, weren't you complaining the other day about our slow internet connection? How it does not let you to watch videos of Pakistani cookery shows on youtube without any interruption? Even when you decide to download them in full HD resolution, how it keeps you waiting for hours to complete?"

Without battling an eyelid, I answered "yes, I am fed up with our internet connection. But what has it got to do with Airtel? Are we going to take a new internet connection from Airtel?"

By now slowly a smile had crept up on my lips.

"Yes, we will be taking a new internet connection but that won't be an ordinary one. It will be superfast, something that has ever been experienced in India. Airtel has now launched its 4G Internet services in 296 cities and it is not double or triple times faster but is almost ten times faster than a 3G connection. That is why we have come here, to check for more details" Biswajeet said.

By now, the customer care executives had seen us standing outside and so gestured to get inside. Biswajeet immediately told them the reason of our visit. The executives were very friendly and explained us everything about the Airtel 4G network in details. They even carried out a test to show us how fast a 4G connection can be. They brought two smartphones and opened the same HD Video (that had a considerable size) simultaneously on both the devices but one phone had a 3G connection while the other had Airtel's 4G connection. While the phone with 3G connection still took about 1 minute to buffer and start playing the video, on the other hand, the video had already started playing on the phone with 4G network as soon as we had clicked it. Thus there was absolutely no buffering at all. They also downloaded an even bigger HD video on both the networks and once again, the 4G network came out the winner, finishing the download in mere few seconds! That was unbelievable. I was highly impressed. I had never seen such fast internet connection ever.

So even before Biswajeet could ask me, I said, "yes, we are taking this 4G internet connection from Airtel".

The customer care executives then informed us that we could also get a free 4G SIM from Airtel if we tweet them with the hashtag #GetAirtel4G on twitter. They would then deliver the SIM at our doorstep for free. That is exactly what we did, we sent them a tweet with the hashtag #GetAirtel4G and they assured us that we will get our 4G SIM in maximum four days. Probably by tomorrow we will be delivered the 4G SIM and then we will be able to enjoy a superfast internet.