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23 November, 2016

Airtel Payments Bank goes live as India's first payments bank

When everyone was expecting Paytm to launch India's first payments bank, Bharti Airtel has quietly floated it. India's biggest telco ......

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03 November, 2016

Six ways in which Reliance Jio may have changed India's telecom landscape

It has been exactly two months since Reliance Industries Ltd (RIL) chairman Mukesh Ambani announced the launch of the company’s ......

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22 October, 2016

India regulator recommends $456 mn fine on Airtel, Vodafone, Idea on Jio complaint

In a setback to incumbent telecom operators, sector regulator TRAI today suggested imposing Rs 3,050 crore penalty on Bharti Airtel, ......

General

03 October, 2016

Economy roundup: Hurdles remain for an interest rate cut

As the Reserve Bank of India kicks off its bi-monthly review of the monetary policy this week, speculation is rife ......

Others

13 March, 2014

Google's chief business officer Nikesh Arora resigns from Airtel's board

Nikesh Arora, senior vice president and chief business officer at Google, has resigned from Bharti Airtel's board. He has been ......

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04 March, 2014

Airtel, Safaricom seek to buy Essar-owned Kenyan telco YuMobile

Kenyan telecom operator Safaricom Ltd and Airtel Kenya Ltd, the local unit of Indian telecommunication giant Bharti Airtel Ltd, have ......

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14 February, 2014

Airtel, Vodafone, Idea and Reliance Jio among top bidders in spectrum auction

The country’s major telecom services majors Bharti Airtel, Vodafone and Idea Cellular have paid through the roof to retain airwaves ......

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03 February, 2014

Airtel, Vodafone and Idea need to redial for spectrum: SC

The country’s apex court has hung up a call by the country’s top three private GSM mobile services firms to ......

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27 January, 2014

Airtel, Vodafone to benefit as ministerial panel fixes usage fee for new spectrum at 5%

The Empowered Group of Ministers on telecommunications, headed by Finance Minister P Chidambaram, on Monday decided a spectrum usage charge ......

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25 November, 2013

New M&A policy for telcos to facilitate acquisition of smaller rivals

Even as the government prepares to announces the much awaited guidelines for mergers and acquisitions (M&A) for the telecom sector in ......