Bharti Airtel’s Vice Chairman and Managing Director, Gopal Vittal, has shared his views on the 5G hype. According to him, 5G has not lived up to expectations or delivered the transformative impact it was marketed to achieve. The technology has neither disrupted business models nor boosted revenues—outcomes that telecom operators … Read More
Bharti Airtel and Reliance Jio have both stepped up their artificial intelligence (AI) offerings, marking one of the biggest shifts in India’s telecom market as operators begin bundling premium AI services at massive scale. Airtel’s Perplexity partnership covers its entire customer base, while Jio has widened access to Google’s Gemini … Read More
Bharti Airtel, India’s second-largest telecom operator, has received a positive rating upgrade from S&P Global. The rating of the company has been upgraded from BBB- to BBB. The positive upgrade comes owing to the market competition and the continued growth of the telco. The analysts at S&P Global expect Airtel’s … Read More
Bharti Airtel has taken a long approach to upgrade to the 5G SA (standalone) for its users. Firstly, the company will bring 5G SA for the FWA (fixed wireless access) users. This is because Airtel believes that 5G SA would have been an overkill to begin with as 5G NSA, … Read More
Bharti Airtel, India’s second-largest telco, has become the first operator to reach Man and Merak, two of the remotest villages located on the Eastern Border of Ladakh. These two villages are in front Pangong Lake. Airtel is the only operator in the region to offer mobile connectivity. The eastern border … Read More
Bharti Airtel, the second-largest telecom operator, has called Indus Towers a very undervalued asset in his recent comments to the analysts. For the unaware, Indus Towers, a telecom infrastructure company, was acquired by Bharti Airtel in the recent past. It wasn’t wholly acquired, but more than 50% stake was with … Read More
Bharti Airtel, India’s second-largest telecom operator, looks at the home broadband market to double to 100 million customers in the coming years. The home broadband segment allows telcos to tap into high-paying customers. However, the challenge for the telco is that they can’t deploy fiber in every area of the … Read More
Bharti Airtel, India’s second-largest telecom operator, has confirmed the launch of dual-5G mode. This mode has both 5G NSA (non-standlone) and 5G SA (standalone). The company has, in fact, rolled it out in a total of 13 circles. Airtel had already said that it is planning to launch 5G SA … Read More
Indian private telecom operators Bharti Airtel, Reliance Jio, and Vodafone Idea (Vi) have released their Q2FY26 results. Vodafone Idea was the most recent to announce its earnings, also highlighting its 5G rollouts across 29 cities within its 17 priority circles where it holds 5G spectrum. Let’s take a look at … Read More
Bharti Airtel’s African mobile money arm called Airtel Money has launched a next-generation cloud native mobile money platform, powered by Comviva’s mobiquity Pay, across Airtel Africa markets. Currently, the roll out has happened in Kenya only, and will also extend to other Airtel Africa markets. It delivers financial services to … Read More
Bharti Airtel’s Truly Unlimited plans offer unlimited voice and SMS benefits for prepaid users. These plans are available in data-centric, voice-centric, and voice-and-SMS-only variants to cater to the needs of different types of users. Until recently, the Truly Unlimited plan for prepaid users started at Rs 189, but now Airtel’s … Read More
Bharti Airtel has expanded its voice-centric prepaid portfolio to cater to users who value calling benefits over data-heavy packs. These plans primarily target secondary SIM users, senior citizens, and customers seeking long validity with light data usage offering flexibility along with digital perks like Perplexity Pro AI and Hello Tunes. … Read More
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