Indian operator Airtel has introduced a data add-on for its prepay customers by offering 15GB for mobile internet traffic for $1.62, The Economic Times reports. There are no call or SMS included in this tariff plan. The add-on includes a 30-day bonus subscription to one of the three channels on the Airtel Xstream mobile app. […]
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India’s homegrown telecom titan Bharti Airtel fulfilled its centralized goal and conducted India’s first cloud-gaming session in a 5G environment, successfully demonstrating its capabilities in delivering high-speed 5G internet. It is not a secret that cloud gaming will become one of the largest use cases of 5G networks as it provides a mixture of high […]
Indian telecoms provider Bharti Airtel revealed on Sunday that its board of directors has approved raising up to $2.86 billion by adopting a rights issue for shareholders, allowing for the sale of its shares at a discount price. “The Board of Directors of the company, at its meeting held today, comprehensively reviewed the industry scenario, […]
Indian telecoms provider Bharti Airtel announced on Friday the closure of its spectrum trading agreement with its local rival Reliance Jio to transfer the “Right to Use” of Airtel’s 800 MHz spectrum in three circles to Jio. Airtel had announced earlier in April the trading agreement without disclosing its financial details. However, Indian media reports revealed on Friday that Airtel received $135.5 million net of tax from Jio for the proposed transfer. Additionally, Jio […]
Indian telco Bharati Airtel and U.S.- based chipmaker Intel announced on Wednesday a collaboration to develop 5G network by leveraging virtualized radio access network (vRAN) and open radio access network (O-RAN) technologies in India. According to Intel’s statement this collaboration will evolve communications networks from fixed-function equipment to virtualized cloud-native deployments and enable edge-to-cloud communications to power hyperconnected world. The Indian telco will deploy Intel’s latest 3rd gen Xeon Scalable […]
Reliance Jio Infocomm (Jio) said it had signed an agreement with Bharti Airtel to acquire the right to use spectrum in the 800-megahertz (MHz) band in Andhra Pradesh, Delhi, and Mumbai telecom circles through spectrum trading. Jio will acquire 3.75 MHz in Andhra Pradesh, 1.25 MHz in Delhi, and 2.5 MHz in Mumbai. “The aggregate […]
Bharti Airtel, one of India’s top telcos, announced late last week the commissioning of a 14 MWp captive solar power plant to meet the energy requirements of its core and edge data centers in Uttar Pradesh. The facility, located in the city of Tilhar east of East of New Delhi, is the first of the […]
Bharti Airtel has brokered several more towers deals that will see it sell off 2,500 towers in Africa to passive infrastructure specialist Helios Towers. The India-based operator, which provides mobile services across 14 markets in Africa, has agreed to sell its towers portfolio of 1,200 sites in Madagascar and Malawi via separate transactions for a […]
U.S.-based private equity firm TPG announced on Thursday that it has acquired a 7.5 percent stake in Airtel Africa’s mobile money business for a sum of $200 million, the telco said in a statement. Airtel Africa, the African arm of India’s Bharti Airtel, is also currently holding further negotiations with other companies to sell off […]
Airtel gained the most subscribers in India comparably due to better network quality by the end of 2020. The latest data from OpenSignal, an independent global mobile analytics company, shows Airtel and Jio have gained more new subscribers by the end of 2020, but Vi (Vodafone Idea) lost by churning subscribers. “Airtel and Jio were […]