Bharti Airtel
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Gopal Vittal, Bharti Airtel’s long-serving CEO will step aside in 2026 to be replaced by Shashwat Sharma. -
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.
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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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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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