Bharti Airtel to buy Telenor India

(Reuters) - Bharti Airtel, India's largest telecoms network operator, said it would buy Telenor (India) Communications Pvt Ltd, in a deal that will bolster Airtel's footprint with additional spectrum in the 1800 MHz band.

Airtel will buy Telenor's India operations in seven circles - Andhra Pradesh, Bihar, Maharashtra, Gujarat, Uttar Pradesh (East), Uttar Pradesh (West) and Assam, the company said in a statement. http://bit.ly/2lNkHSR

(Reporting by Samantha Kareen Nair in Bengaluru; Editing by Gopakumar Warrier)