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Vodafone Idea lives to see new day, ending Jio-Airtel duopoly fears

With no duopoly, Airtel and Jio will now concentrate on improving their bottom lines rather than playing the pricing game to target Vi customers or ensure its demise

Airtel Payments Bank, Park+ tie up to offer FASTag-based parking solutions

Airtel Payments Bank on Thursday announced a collaboration with Park+ to offer FASTag-based smart parking solutions to marquee commercial and residential properties across the country. The partnership aims to leverage the distribution reach and digital payments stack of Airtel Payments Bank to digitise the parking ecosystem using FASTag associated with the vehicle, the company said in a statement. Park+ operates in the area of automating parking spaces through FASTag and the majority of parking FASTag transactions in India are currently being processed through Park+ systems. Park+ will offer its full suite of FASTag services including issuance, acquiring, recharge, and technology support to Airtel Payments Bank. Airtel Payments Bank is among the top five issuers of FASTag in the country, the statement said adding that customers can purchase a FASTag in a matter of a few clicks from the banking section of the Airtel 'Thanks App'. Park+ access control systems are installed at more t

Airtel Business, IBM deploy cloud solution for group of milk producer cos

These five large MPCs include Paayas in Rajasthan, Maahi in Gujarat, Shreeja in Andhra Pradesh, Baani in Punjab, and Saahaj in Uttar Pradesh

Airtel Business, IBM deploy hybrid cloud solution for milk companies

The technology will enable the firms to strengthen support to farmers and securely record and access key information.

Jio adds 1.76 mn customers in Oct; Airtel's customer base shrinks

Vodafone Idea continues its losing streak and shed 964,245 subscribers, says Trai data

Airtel, Capgemini to develop India-specific enterprise 5G solutions

Bharti Airtel and technology services major Capgemini on Tuesday announced to collaborate on bringing India-specific, 5G-based enterprise grade solutions to the country.

Airtel, Invest India join hands to launch 'Startup Innovation Challenge'

Bharti Airtel on Thursday launched 'Airtel India Startup Innovation Challenge' in partnership with Invest India that will let early-stage technology companies demonstrate differentiated solutions.

Dish TV clarifies on report of Airtel being in talks to buy majority stake

Airtel is looking to buy 5.93% stake from Dish TV's promoter group and 25.63% stake owned by Yes Bank Ltd, a news report said

'Tariff hikes, relief package to help telcos invest up to Rs 1.8 trn in 5G'

Improving bottomline along with the moratorium on government dues will provide telecom companies room to invest an estimated Rs 1.5-1.8 trn for 5G services, say Crisil

Airtel conducts 5G trial in 700 MHz band in partnership with Nokia

Airtel has been allotted test spectrum in multiple bands by Department of Telecommunications for the validation of 5G technology and use cases

Fitch affirms Bharti Airtel at 'BBB-'; outlook negative

Fitch has also affirmed Bharti Airtel International (Netherlands) BV's senior unsecured guaranteed bonds at 'BBB-' and Network i2i Limited's subordinated perpetual bond at 'BB'

Will Airtel's tariff hike turn a corner for India's telecom sector?

Airtel took a bold step of raising tariffs by 25% starting this Friday, notwithstanding the risk attached to it. Does this mean brighter days ahead for the telecom sector? Take a look at this report

Airtel adds 2.74 lakh users in Sept; Jio, VIL lose subscribers: Trai

The subscriber base of Airtel stood at 35.44 crore in September as against 35.41 crore users in August

Airtel prepaid plans to cost 20%-25% more from Nov 26: Here are the details

Airtel announced 20-25% tariff hikes for various prepaid offerings and said the new rates will come into effect from November 26

Airtel panel to sharpen focus on environmental, sustainability & governance

Manish Kejriwal will be the chairman of the committee

Airtel to lean on its 180 mn digital users to propel payments bank business

Airtel Payments Bank has a customer base of around 115 million with a monthly transacting user base of 31 million

Bharti Airtel says mobile ARPU should head to Rs 200 in the near term

Telecom reforms to help preserve cash flows, drive industry investments, says Airtel CEO Gopal Vittal

Explained: Airtel's cashback offer on smartphones to counter JioPhone Next

Part of the telecom operator's 'Mera Pehla Smartphone program', the cashback offer reduces the effective ownership cost of eligible smartphones in a long run

Airtel garners over Rs 5,200 cr from first round of payment in rights issue

This implies that Airtel has raised an estimated Rs 5,243 crore from the initial tranche

Airtel CEO warns cyber-fraud cases are becoming 'alarmingly frequent'

Common instances of fraud include fake UPI handles and websites and fake OTPs