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Malaysia’s Axiata and India’s Bharti Airtel have signed an agreement to merge their Sri Lankan telecom operators.
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Airtel confirms the launch of Airtel Africa Telesonic (Telesonic), a fully owned Airtel subsidiary and fibre wholesale company.
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Dialog Axiata (Dialog), Axiata Group (Axiata) and Bharti Airtel (Airtel) have entered into a binding term sheet to combine their operations in Sri Lanka.
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Bharti Airtel (Airtel) is partnering with Bridgepointe Technologies (Bridgepointe), a tech advisory firm, to enable US enterprises expand into India and Africa to using Airtel’s digital infrastructure solution.
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Bharti Airtel confirms the launch of its ultra-fast 5G services known as Airtel 5G Plus, in 125 cities.
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Ribbon Communications has been selected by Bharti Airtel to build its new high-speed transport network.
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Bharti Airtel and Vultr, a cloud computing company, have partnered to offer cloud solutions to enterprises in India.
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Aqua Comms has bought an Indian infrastructure company to further its project to build EMIC-1, the planned Europe Middle East India Connect subsea cable.
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Vodafone Idea is yet to start setting up a 5G base station network in India according to local reports from the country.
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Bharti Airtel will team up with Meta to invest in global connectivity infrastructure and CPaaS-based new-age digital solutions to support customers and businesses in India.
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India’s mobile companies are calling on operators of so-called over-the-top (OTT) apps to pay them for carrying their traffic.
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Bharti Airtel subsidiary Nxtra Data (Nxtra by Airtel) has started the construction of its new hyperscale data centre in Kolkata, India.
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Bharti Airtel has contracted Aviat Networks, a Texas-based specialist in wireless transport solutions for its wireless multiband network.
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IBM and Bharti Airtel are partnering to deploy Airtel's edge computing platform in India, which will span 120 network data centres across 20 cities.
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Bharti Airtel subsidiary Nxtra Data has partnered with Bloom Energy to deploy low environmental impact fuel cell installation at its data centre in Karnataka, reducing carbon emissions through cleaner, hydrogen ready fuel supply.
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Indian operator Bharti Airtel is upgrading its live streaming, video-on-demand (VoD) and all other media delivery to its 400 million customers across the country in readiness for its 5G services.
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Singtel has announced it will sell a 3.3% stake in India’s Bharti Airtel to Bharti Telecom limited for US$1.61 billion.
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Vodafone is in talks with Canadian pension fund Caisse de depot to sell its 21% stake in Indus Towers.
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India’s 5G launch is imminent, Ashwini Vaishnaw, the country’s telecoms minister revealed on Twitter.
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Fresh off of India 5G spectrum auction that was finally completed this week, Bharti Airtel has awarded contracts to Nokia, Ericsson and Samsung for its 5G rollout.
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As India’s 5G spectrum auction was again delayed, leading Indian telcos Airtel, Jio and Vodafone Idea have opposed plans to offer 5G spectrum to private captive networks, claiming it could provide back door entries to private companies.
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OneWeb has revived the idea that India might launch its future satellites.
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Airtel Africa has joined the Joint Alliance for CSR (JAC), an industry body that promotes sustainability through supply chains.
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Indian operator Airtel has achieved speeds of more than 1Gbps in trials of cloud-based open RAN technology.
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Airtel Africa, marked its membership of the FTSE 100 share listing this week with revenue up almost 25% and earnings up 34%.
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Bharti Airtel (Airtel) and Google are to partner on a long-term, multi-year agreement to accelerate the growth of India’s digital ecosystem.
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Bharti Airtel subsidiary Airtel Africa will join the Financial Times Stock Exchange (FTSE) 100 on January 31, 2022.
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Airtel’s data centres and switching centres in the Indian state of Maharashtra are to be powered by a new, 21MW solar plant.
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Reliance Jio (RJIL) has paid Rs 30,791 (£3.03 million) towards clearing prepayment of deferred spectrum acquired before March 2021.
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The Indian government will take a 36% in the fledgling Vodafone Idea after the operator’s board approved the conversion of dues into equity.
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Satellite company OneWeb finished 2021 on a high, with another successful launch, but the date of its commercial start is still unclear.
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Hughes Network Systems and Bharti Airtel have formed a JV to combine their VSAT operations to provide satellite broadband services in India.
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Juniper Networks (Juniper) has been selected by Bharti Airtel (Airtel) to deliver network upgrades for the expansion of Airtel’s nationwide broadband coverage across India.
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Oracle and Bharti Airtel (Airtel) have extended their partnership to support the growth of India’s digital economy.
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Eutelsat, which last week rejected a takeover offer from Patrick Drahi, has raised its stake in satellite company OneWeb to almost 23%.
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Bharti Airtel is to enhance its optical network capacity in key metropolitan markets with Tejas Networks.
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Airtel Niger has constructed a fibre link from the city of Zinder to the Nigerian border at Maimoujia, and has added a data centre in Zinder.
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Hanwha Systems, a South Korean electronics and military equipment company, has become the latest investor in OneWeb, the satellite operator.
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Indian banks are in discussions about converting Vodafone Idea’s debts into equity, effectively taking over one of the country’s three main mobile operators.
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The Indian government appears to have blinked first in its fight with its telecoms operators and others over back taxes worth billions.
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The chairman of the company that owns 27% of Indian mobile operator Vodafone Idea has offered to transfer the group’s entire shareholding to the government to help stave off collapse.