Bharti Airtel
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Ericsson has secured a multi-year, multi-billion dollar deal from Bharti Airtel (Airtel) to supply 4G and 5G RAN products and solutions. -
Gopal Vittal, Bharti Airtel’s long-serving CEO will step aside in 2026 to be replaced by Shashwat Sharma.
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Airtel Business, the B2B arm of Indian telco Bharti Airtel, has partnered with Ericsson-owned Vonage to launch a unified business communications application to simplify customer engagements.
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The partnership will see Airtel Business benefit from additional capacity on the Blue and Raman submarine cable systems
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Bharti Global will become BT’s biggest shareholder after buying a 25% stake, worth US$4 billion from Altice.
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Nokia has completed its first 5G non-standalone (NSA) Cloud RAN trial with Bharti Airtel in India.
Forthcoming events
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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.
