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  Airtel to roll out full mobile number portability

  July 02, 2015 13:59 IST

  New Delhi: Bharti Airtel is set to launch national mobile number portability (MNP) from July 3, the company said on Thursday.Mobile customers from the operator across India can now retain their mobile number while moving

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  Bharti Airtel now third-largest mobile operator globally

  June 30, 2015 13:33 IST

  New Delhi: Bharti Airtel on Tuesday said it has become the third-largest mobile operator in the world in terms of subscribers.As per the latest data published by World Cellular Information Service, Bharti Airtel, with over

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  Airtel clinches USD 2.5 bn Chinese financing deals

  May 16, 2015 10:55 IST

  Shanghai: Bharti Airtel today said it has received financing commitments of up to USD 2.5 billion from China Development Bank and Industrial and Commercial Bank of China, with an average maturity of about nine years.The

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  SC rejects plea of telecom companies for licence extension

  May 14, 2015 13:12 IST

  New Delhi: The Supreme Court today dismissed a batch of petitions filed by various telecom companies, including Vodafone and Bharti Airtel, seeking extension of their spectrum licences.“We see no merit. The petitions are dismissed,” a

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  Sensex dives 261 points on muted earnings, tax worries

  April 27, 2015 16:55 IST

  Mumbai: On its third straight fall today, the benchmark BSE Sensex plunged 261 points to a fresh three-and-a-half months low of 27,176.99 on sustained capital outflows and disappointing March quarter earnings so far.  Sentiment remained

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  Spectrum auction ends with bids about Rs 1.10 lakh cr

  March 25, 2015 20:13 IST

  New Delhi: India's biggest telecom spectrum auction ended today after 19 days of fierce bidding that fetched about Rs 1.10 lakh crore to the government.“The auction has concluded,” an official source told PTI.The auction for

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  Spectrum bids total Rs 105,000 crore after 17 days of auction

  March 24, 2015 7:50 IST

  New Delhi:The government has received cumulative commitments of Rs 105,000 crore from telecom operators during the 17 days of e-auctions since March 4 for the award of radio frequency spectrum, an official statement said here

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  Want to free Internet? Do philanthropy: Sunil Mittal to Mark Zuckerberg

  March 08, 2015 14:51 IST

  Barcelona: Taking on social networking giant Facebook's ambitious 'free internet' plans, telecom major Bharti Airtel chief Sunil Mittal has said the companies should do 'philanthropy' if they stop charging for mobile internet. Facebook has launched

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  Pre-budget expectations cheer markets, sentiment to continue

  February 21, 2015 14:13 IST

  Mumbai: Positive global and domestic cues coupled with strong expectations of further reforms in the upcoming budget led a benchmark index of Indian equities markets to gain 136.48 points or 0.46 percent during the week

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  Ambanis, Bharti, Voda, 5 others to slug it out for spectrum

  February 16, 2015 19:48 IST

  Telecom firms of Ambani brothers Mukesh and Anil as well as Bharti Airtel, Vodafone and Idea are among the eight companies vying to buy spectrum in the biggest ever auction that may fetch the government

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  Bharti Airtel Q3 profit jumps over 2-fold at Rs 1,436.5 crore

  February 04, 2015 19:00 IST

  New Delhi: Telecom major Bharti Airtel on Wednesday reported over two-fold jump in consolidated net profit at Rs 1,436.5 crore in the third quarter of 2014-15 on the back of continued growth in mobile data

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  Airtel may pay rs 436 crore for Qualcomm merger

  January 15, 2015 12:30 IST

  New Delhi: Telecom major Bharti Airtel may have to pay Rs 436 crore for merging Airtel Broadband Services with itself as per legal opinion received by the Department of Telecom, an official source said.Airtel Broadband

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  Bharti Airtel users to pay more for making calls on Skype, Viber

  December 24, 2014 17:41 IST

  New Delhi: Bharti Airtel customers will now have to pay extra if they are making calls on Skype, Viber or other apps using their mobile data packs as the operator has decided to charge standard

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  Telecom industry seeks five year extension in 4G network roll out deadline

  December 21, 2014 17:34 IST

  New Delhi: Telecom industry body COAI has requested the Department of Telecom to extend deadline for roll out of 4G services to 2020 citing various hurdles mainly delay in development of technology and regulatory procedures."DoT

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  Telecom Commission to take call on extended spectrum use by Airtel, Vodafone

  December 08, 2014 9:09 IST

  New Delhi: Inter-ministerial panel Telecom Commission is likely to take a call today on allowing extended use of spectrum by Airtel and Vodafone to avoid disruption in their services in Delhi, Mumbai and Kolkata, besides

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  Vodafone, Bharti Airtel fined most for tariff and MNP rules violations

  November 29, 2014 12:50 IST

  New Delhi: Telecom operator Vodafone has been fined the most for tariff rule violations till date, while Bharti Airtel has been penalised the maximum amount for breaching mobile number portability norms.Country's second largest telecom operator

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  Airtel launches its 4G service in Africa

  November 27, 2014 14:16 IST

  New Delhi: Bharti Airtel has launched its first fourth generation (4G) services in Africa in the Seychelles, a company statement said here on Thursday."Airtel has launched the service on a state-of-the-art network based on FD-LTE

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  Act of Bharti Airtel can't be attributed to Mittal, SC told

  November 27, 2014 7:55 IST

  New Delhi: Bharti Airtel chairman Sunil Mital on Wednesday told the Supreme Court that the alleged irregularities in the grant of the additional spectrum in 2002 against his company could not be attributed to him

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  Airtel sells mobile towers in Nigeria to American Towers Company

  November 25, 2014 8:14 IST

  New Delhi: Bharti Airtel has sold its 4,800 mobile towers in Nigeria to the US-based American Towers Company (ATC) for about USD 1.05 billion to pare debt.In a joint statement, Airtel and ATC announced that

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  Bharti Airtel calls off Rs 700 crore deal to acquire Loop Mobile as DoT waffles

  November 05, 2014 15:39 IST

  New Delhi: Telecom major Bharti Airtel has called off its plans to acquire business and assets of Mumbai based Loop Mobile, for about Rs 700 crore, as the Department of Telecom is yet to clear