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Hope govt will lower proposed 5G auction base price, says Airtel

Gopal Vittal, CEO of Bharti Airtel said the mobile growth of 4 per cent was largely driven by ARPU growth

Despite big 5G plans, debt-laden Airtel wobbling in war with Ambani's Jio

Airtel added 53,500 subscribers, Jio 17 million in first two months of 2019

Airtel fixes April 24 as 'record date' for Rs 25,000 cr rights issue

Airtel has announced rights issue to raise Rs 25,000 cr through issuance of fully paid up shares at a price of Rs 220 per share, and an additional Rs 7,000 cr via foreign currency perpetual bond issue

Airtel springs a surprise addition in Jan; Voda Idea continues to lose base

Rapid data adoption witnessed a jump, with mobile internet user base pushing the overall broadband market growth by 4 per cent

Airtel looking at Dish TV for merger to take on Reliance Jio

The Indian DTH space has five players currently - four paid and one free. The move to merge Dish and Airtel's DTH operations would help the telco take on the competition it is facing from Reliance Jio

Airtel arm applies for licence to offer in-flight connectivity: Sources

Indo Teleports, a subsidiary of Bharti Airtel, has applied to the Telecom Department for the said licence

Airtel ropes in former Telenor executive Nakul Sehgal as corporate CFO

His last assignment was with the Telenor Group, where he worked for eight years in various senior level positions across geographies including India

Airtel to sell 32% stake in Bharti Infratel, may pocket over Rs 18K cr

At the current stock price, Airtel will receive around Rs 18,851 crore (INFRATEL: Rs 318.5 at 11:06 am IST) from the sale of 591,874,639 equity shares

Airtel eyes insourcing to manage IT infra as IBM contract up for renewal

The slowdown in the telecom segment is reflecting on IBM's India revenue

Bharti Airtel likely to see ARPU rise benefit only from March quarter

Around September, both VIL and Airtel started weeding very low Arpu subscribers, with a push to a minimum monthly Rs 35 recharge

Niger orders closure of Airtel offices over unpaid taxes of $107 million

Airtel had a Friday deadline to pay 15 million euros in fines

Airtel draws up strategy to take on rivals Reliance Jio, Vodafone Idea

Airtel is also concentrating on a niche market for its payments bank business, which has 30 million customers

Moody's places Airtel on review for a possible rating downgrade

'The review for downgrade is primarily driven by our expectation that Bharti's cash flow generation will remain weak and leverage elevated'

Airtel will give the feature phone user base a miss, says management

Analysts have taken a positive view on this move as it might be the only way for incumbents to increase ARPUs in the long run

Softbank, Warburg, 4 others to invest $1.25 bn in debt-laden Airtel Africa

The investment will be used to reduce Airtel Africa's existing debt of approximately $5 billiona and help its growth

Airtel battles trolls as brands learn to navigate hate

Given the growing abuse and hate online, it is time for a social media primer for brands, say experts

We didn't bow down to a discriminatory request: Airtel on tweet row

'At Airtel, we never have and never will succumb to differentiating on the basis of religion, ethnicity or caste,' the company said on Twitter

Airtel embroils into controversy over a tweet from its customer

Customer didn't want one Shoaib from the firm to address her problem, wanted a Hindu instead; earned ire of Twitter users including Omar Abdullah

Airtel offers Samsung Galaxy S9, Galaxy S9+ on down payment of Rs 9,900

The devices were launched in India earlier this month. Price of the Galaxy S9 and S9+ starts at Rs 57,900 and Rs 64,900, respectively

Here's why 'Jio pressure' on Airtel, other telcos could partly ease soon

Airtel last week posted over 39 per cent fall in consolidated net profit to about Rs 3.06 billion for the third quarter ended December 31, 2017