Under this exclusive tie up, HTC Touch Diamond, the smartphone, will offer a wide range of services, including YouTube application for watching video content. Besides, it will give access to Airtel Live for providing entertainment on mobile.
The burgeoning population of mobile phone users is increasingly using the short messaging service to greet their friends and relatives on occasions such as the start of New Year.
As Vodafone started examining the books of Hutchison Essar, its existing partner Bharti Airtel on Tuesday said it has not been approached by anyone to buyout British telecom firm's stake in the company.
Under the plan, customers can enjoy unlimited STD calls to anywhere in India to any mobile or landline number for 30 days at a tariff of 75 paise per minute by recharging with a Rs 47 pack, Airtel said.
Over the past week, the BSE Sensex ended on a muted note, showing a marginal gain of 2.25 points at 28,114.56.
Bharti Airtel said it might look at diluting some of its equity either at Bharti Airtel or at its tower subsidiary as one of the options to fund the $10.7-billion acquisition of African assets of Zain Telecom.
Titan surged 2.98 per cent, followed by IndusInd Bank, ITC, JSW Steel, Infosys, Tech Mahindra, Tata Consultancy Services and Maruti. Hindustan Unilever, Asian Paints, Bharti Airtel and HDFC Bank were among the laggards.
Today is the last date for submitting the applications and companies have the option to withdraw them by January 27.
Bharti Airtel has awarded Swedish telecom vendor Ericsson a $1 billion (about Rs 4500 crore or Rs 45 billion) contract extending over three years.
AGR dues calculated by the government for 16 entities add up to Rs 1.69 lakh crore, while telcos' self-assessment place their dues at a mere Rs 37,176 crore.
Indian telecom giant Bharti Airtel has now become India's biggest music company, overtaking the industry leader Saregama, on the back of its music-related value-added mobile services, a top executive has said.
Bharti Airtel operates in 20 countries across Asia and Africa and is the world's fourth-biggest cellular carrier by customers
Airtel has allocated 199,870,006 new equity shares at price of Rs 340 each share, representing 5 per cent equity stake in the company to QFE.
Tata companies perform well while major firms in emerging markets do badly.
As per TRAI norms, Vodafone and Airtel are close to getting added spectrums, given their growing subscriber rates.
The JV between the two has won BWA spectrum in Delhi, Mumbai, Haryana and Kerala.
A Delhi court on Tuesday summoned as accused chairman-cum-managing director of Bharti Cellular Ltd Sunil Bharti Mittal, Essar Group promoter Ravi Ruia and five others in a case relating to alleged irregularities in allocation of additional spectrum to Airtel and Vodafone during the National Democratic All regime.
In order to help voters make informed choice, Bharti Airtel said it is offering its pre-paid users 50 MB free Internet usage on Thursday.
Airtel, a member of Asia's largest mobile alliance, Bridge Mobile, on Monday announced a suite of services that will enable its customers access, among other facilities, seamless roaming when they are abroad.
Telecom Regulatory Authority of India said on Tuesday that the quality of services by private mobile operators
Bharti Enterprises Group CFO Sarvjit S Dhillon said there is more clarity on the regulatory front now, which is a good sign for the industry.
The Commission was critical of the fact that the information relating to subscribers, which was confidential and lying with mobile companies, was being passed on to telemarketing agencies without the users' consent.
The launch will lower phone bills and enable customers to use a single phone with a common number for mobile and fixed-line calls.
Bharti Airtel, nearly a third owned by Southeast Asia's top phone carrier SingTel, said it was helped by lower competition and an increase in voice call prices.
The trophy for the upcoming Airtel India-Australia series, which starts with the first Test at Mohali on Friday, was unveiled in Chandigarh on Wednesday. India captain M S Dhoni and his Australian counterpart Ricky Ponting unveiled the glittering trophy at a function held in the hotel where the two teams are staying.
The Delhi HC has asked the department of telecommunications to not take any coercive action until the next hearing of the case.
The scrip was the biggest loser on both Sensex and Nifty.
Maharashtra Navnirman Sena chief Raj Thackeray on Tuesday asked party workers to remove the 'tail' from mobile service provider Airtel for failing to launch announcements in Marathi.
AirTel on Wednesday offered 10 options to its pre-paid subscribers including zero calling value but 45 days of validity for a recharge card of Rs 324 and in another option offering a calling value of as high as Rs 250 but with zero validity period.
The US Federal Reserve's interest rate decision, global cues, macroeconomic data announcements and the ongoing quarterly earnings are the major triggers that will dictate trends in stock markets this week, analysts said. Besides, the trading activity of foreign investors and the movement of global oil benchmark Brent crude will also be tracked. "All eyes are on the outcome of the US Federal Reserve meeting scheduled for November 1, particularly due to the multi-year high levels of the US bond yields.
Tata Group remained India's largest business conglomerate in market capitalisation in calendar year 2023 while the Mukesh Ambani camp raced ahead of the Adani businesses to become the second-largest. The Tata companies ended 2023 with a combined group market capitalisation of Rs 28.68 trillion, up 35 per cent from the Rs 21.2 trillion at the end of December 2022. Ambani's group mcap is Rs 19.42 trillion at the end of CY23, up 10.7 per cent from the Rs 17.6 trillion a year ago.
From the Sensex pack, Larsen & Toubro, JSW Steel, IndusInd Bank, Power Grid, ITC, Mahindra & Mahindra, NTPC, HDFC Bank, ITC, Reliance Industries and Tata Motors were among the major laggards. Bajaj Finserv, Asian Paints Bajaj Finance, Bharti Airtel and Axis Bank were among the gainers.
Country's largest telecom service provider Bharti Airtel on Monday revealed its plans to launch iPhone 4, the latest product from Apple Computers's stable, by October.
These circles account for 23 per cent of Bharti's revenues and armed with additional spectrum, it will eat into rivals' share
Reliance Industries Ltd was the biggest wealth creator during the five-year period from 2018 to 2023 while Adani Enterprises Ltd was the top all-round wealth creator, according to a study by Motilal Oswal Financial Services. The study, based on stock market performance of companies, said for the fifth time in succession, Reliance emerged as the largest wealth creator, adding Rs 9,63,800 crore wealth over 2018-23. It was followed by Tata Consultancy Services (Rs 6,77,400 crore wealth addition), ICICI Bank (Rs 4,15,500 crore), Infosys (Rs 3,61,800 crore) and Bharti Airtel (Rs 2,80,800 crore).
Plans to form JV for its data centre business
With competitive pressures increasing at home, Bharti is making a third attempt to gain a foothold in the African market.
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