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Airtel alone gains customers in Sept among old telcos, reveals COAI data

With the telecom industry stabilising after the disruption caused by Reliance Jio, customer attrition from incumbent operators has been slowing. Bharti Airtel, the largest, rebounded with subscriber additions in September, indicating the worst might be over. Data from the Cellular Operators Association of India (COAI) showed Airtel added a little over a million customers in September, taking its user base to 282 mn, a market share of 29.8 per cent. It got more in most of the circles, leading with Mumbai where it added 360,000, a growth rate of 5.5 per cent. The company's user base grew 0.36 per cent nationally as compared to August, when it lost about 200,000, a first for the company which continued adding customers since Jio's launch.The situation at the other two major incumbents also improved. In September, Idea's subscriber base dropped by 900,000, much lower as compared to August, when it lost close to 2.8 mn customers. Similarly, the customer drop for Vodafone was down to ...

Bharti Airtel added 1 mn users in September; Idea, Vodafone biggest losers

Aircel lost 394,209 mobile subscribers in September, and its total mobile subscriber base shrank to 88.8 million

Bharti Airtel set to join Rs 2-lakh cr market-cap club after a 10-year gap

Bharti Airtel, the telecom services provider, with the m-cap of Rs 198,650 crore is at number 12th position in overall m-cap ranking, the BSE data shows

Why the Street is bullish on Bharti Airtel

The company has been improving its position, by acquisitions and shoring up its 4G network, as well as by strengthening infrastructure and reach

Bharti Airtel shares continue to move up, jump over 5%

On NSE, shares of the company climbed 5.19 per cent to close at Rs 453.30

Bharti Airtel hits two-year high; stock up 16% in one week

Moody's Investors Service says that Bharti's acquisition of Tata's consumer telecom business is credit positive.

Airtel beats Reliance Jio by a huge margin in 4G speed: OpenSignal report

Bharti Airtel tops the 4G LTE download speed with an average speed of 9.15 Mbps. It was closely followed by Vodafone and Idea with scores of 7.45 Mbps and 7.4 Mbps, respectively

Trai's decision to slash call connect charge disappointing: Airtel

The sharp drop in the IUC rate will only help transfer part of its cost to other operators, thereby further worsening the financial health of the industry,

Airtel takes on Jio, plans rollout of Rs 2,500 4G phone by Diwali

Recently, Jio announced a 4G-enabled feature phone with smartphone like capabilities

Airtel plans to sell 3.7% in Bharti Infratel for Rs 2,500 crore

Bharti Airtel and Nettle jointly hold 61.65 per cent in Bharti Infratel

Bharti Airtel may sell 3% stake in Infratel

Airtel is reportedly weighing the sale to cut its net debt

With free services, we will have a much higher market share: Airtel CEO

3G network in India would shut down faster than other countries due to good 4G ecosystem: Airtel CEO

Bharti Airtel slips post 75% drop in Q1 net profit

Shares of the company opened at Rs 428.50 and touched a high and low of Rs 430 and Rs 421.65.

Bharti Airtel Q1 net takes massive 75% hit on Jio impact

Profit at Rs 367 cr; revenue falls 14% to Rs 21,958 cr as data and voice rates tumble

Bharti Airtel invests Rs 30,000 crore on infrastructure in 2 years

The telecom major said it deployed over 72,000 network base stations in 2016-17

Bharti Airtel in talks to acquire FreeCharge

The telco had recently launched Airtel Payments Bank and it also has an online wallet-Airtel Money

Airtel services down: Customers complain of network outages in Delhi-NCR

Many customers posted messages over non- availability of mobile network on social media platforms

Bharti Airtel hits four-month high

The stock was up 2.4% to Rs 386, extending its 3% gain in past two trading sessions on the BSE.

Airtel may launch VoLTE services in next quarter

As it looks to take on Reliance Jio, country's top mobile operator Bharti Airtel, which is currently undergoing trials for voice over LTE (VoLTE) in some cities including Mumbai, plans to launch commercial services in the next quarter.Although Airtel has not shared an exact timeline but people aware of the plans said the Sunil Bharti Mittal-owned firm is likely to launch VoLTE services in next quarter. Also, Airtel's 4G footprint will cover all the towns and cities by end of 2017 financial year. The company has already launched 4G services in all the 22 telecom circles but a few cities and towns in the circles are currently not getting the latest technology but the company is upgrading its network to cover most of the country by end of FY 2017.When asked for a comment, an Airtel spokesperson said, "We are piloting/testing VoLTE in a few places but there are no launch timelines that we can share at this point."During an investor call on Q4 results, Bharti Airtel CEO Gopal Vittal had ...

Bharti Airtel top gainer as it receives approval for merger with Telenor

So far, 81,000 exchanged hands on the counter against its two-week average of 3.91 lakh shares