A few days back, the Competition Commission of India (CCI) approved Bharti Airtel and Google’s deal for $700 million. The actual deal between the companies was for $1 billion, but $300 million out of that was for forming multi-year agreements, and $700 million were for getting a 1.28% stake in the company. On Thursday, Bharti Airtel said that in a meeting held between the ‘Special Committee of Directors for Preferential... Read More
Reliance Jio and Bharti Airtel are going to get tough competition from the Adani Group in the upcoming 5G spectrum auction. Both the telcos have to launch 5G for B2B as well as B2C applications. For this, the telcos would heavily bid for the mid-band spectrum in the 3.3-3.67 GHz band. Before the Adani Group’s entry, no bidding war was expected as Vodafone Idea didn’t have the money to do... Read More
Reliance Jio, Bharti Airtel, Vodafone Idea (Vi) are the telcos which already offer 4G services in India and are planning to launch 5G networks very soon. Bharat Sanchar Nigam Limited (BSNL) is the company that’s still in the phase of launching 4G and then expanding it to entire India by 2023. The telcos offer services to consumers with the help of the spectrum. Each telco in the country has a... Read More
Reliance Jio is expected to post the highest growth in terms of percentage in average revenue per user (ARPU) figure QoQ for the Q1 FY23. However, as per analysts, Airtel’s overall ARPU will still be the greatest in the industry. Analysts expect that Airtel’s ARPU will touch Rs 184-185 levels in the first quarter of the financial year 2023. This is not surprising. Airtel’s tariffs are significantly higher than Jio’s... Read More
Bharti Airtel is known for offering pretty expensive tariffs compared to its arch-rival Reliance Jio. Regardless, there’s a complete range of plans that you can choose from if you are a prepaid customer of the telco. Bharti Airtel offers multiple prepaid plans which come bundled with major Over-The-Top (OTT) subscriptions. We are going to check the details of the prepaid plans from Airtel, which offer OTT benefits to consumers under... Read More
Bharti Airtel offers access to Wynk Music, in-house music and audio app, to its customers with prepaid as well as postpaid plans. Users can get Wynk Premium access with certain services offered by Airtel. Otherwise, users can purchase a premium subscription to the platform. The cost of Wynk Music Premium is Rs 49 per month if the users register on the platform. Now, Wynk Music is the top-ranked music app... Read More
Bharti Airtel has been the pick of analysts in the Indian telecom sector. The telco has continued to show growth signs in both the mobile as well as non-mobile business. BNP Paribas said, “Airtel seems well-positioned to report strong revenue growth and improvement in profitability, led by higher tariffs and market share gains.” For Airtel India, BNP Paribas estimates 4.5% rise QoQ inn mobile revenues in Q1 FY23. The rise... Read More
Bharti Airtel and Vodafone Idea (Vi) had started a Wi-Fi joint venture called FireFly Networks. The purpose of the JV was to offload mobile networks and promote the use of Wi-Fi in multiple parts of the company. But the business didn’t do much as the expansion of 4G networks happened pretty fast in the country once Jio arrived. Now, an ET Telecom report suggests that Bharti Airtel and Vodafone Idea... Read More
Bharti Airtel has been pretty vocal about what it has wanted for a long-time. The telco is all about keeping the highest paying customers in India on its network. This helps Airtel in keeping its ARPU level at the top position amongst the competition. Airtel has said many times that its short-term ARPU goal is Rs 200. ICICI Securities recently said that Airtel’s ARPU is expected to reach Rs 184... Read More
The private telecom operators in India including Reliance Jio, Vodafone Idea (Vi), and Bharti Airtel aren’t going to see robust growth in mobile revenues in Q1 FY23. This is due to a couple of reasons, said ICICI Securities in a note. First of all, Bharti Airtel and Vodafone Idea Limited (VIL) saw a decline in subscribers. The smartphone prices were up and thus the sales were lower resulting in fewer... Read More
Bharti Airtel, a major telecom operator in India, has added four new prepaid plans for its users. These plans are meant to give users something affordable to keep their SIM active. Of course, there was the Rs 99 plan already available for the users. But, the Rs 99 plan comes with 28 days of validity only. Users were slightly irritated that they didn’t get a super-affordable prepaid plan from Airtel,... Read More
Bharti Airtel runs a wholly-owned banking subsidiary company in India called Airtel Payments Bank. The company has paid good returns to Airtel as it is now profitable. Rarely do we see banking or finance startups in India becoming profitable as fast as Airtel Payments Bank. Airtel Africa, majorly owned by Bharti Airtel recently launched SmartCash Payment Service Bank. It is a wholly-owned banking subsidiary of Airtel Africa. The SmartCash Payment... Read More
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