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Tanay Singh Thakur August 14th, 2022 6:54 AM 3 COMMENTS

Bharti Airtel Moves Ahead of Jio, Vi in B2B Space

Bharti Airtel, the second-largest telecom operator in India is rocking in the B2B (Business-to-Business) segment. It looks like Airtel has actually been able to leverage its "premium" branding into convincing enterprises to purchase its services. For the unaware, Airtel operates its B2B business via a separate brand called Airtel Business. Through Airtel Business, Indian enterprises can purchase several products and services including Airtel IoT, Airtel Conferencing, Airtel Cloud, Airtel Office... Read More

Tanay Singh Thakur August 13th, 2022 9:10 PM 0 COMMENTS

Bharti Airtel Shareholders Approve Gopal Vittal as CEO and MD for Next Five Years

Gopal Vittal is currently the Managing Director (MD) and Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of Bharti Airtel. His term was scheduled to end in the current financial year. But, Bharti Airtel shareholders have reappointed Gopal Vittal as the MD of the company for five years starting February 1, 2023. Airtel shared the development with the stock exchanges on Saturday. Over 97% of votes poured in favour of Gopal Vittal to be... Read More

Tanay Singh Thakur August 12th, 2022 7:00 AM 4 COMMENTS

Airtel Talks about Why 5G Nsa is More Sensible Choice

If you have been following the talks around 5G, you must have heard there are two types of 5G networks. One is 5G SA (standalone), and another is 5G NSA (non-standalone). These are the two types of 5G networks that telecom operators can roll out. But most of the countries have seen their operators rely more on 5G NSA in the initial days. This is the case with India as... Read More

Tanay Singh Thakur August 11th, 2022 2:30 PM 0 COMMENTS

Airtel Announces Wynk Studio to Help Artists with Discovery, Monetisation and More

Bharti Airtel has just announced Wynk Studio. Wynk is already one of the largest online music and podcast streaming applications in India. Now, Airtel, which owns the Wynk platform, has announced Wynk Studio. From the name itself, you can gather that it is a platform meant for artists. Through the Wynk Studio, Airtel aims to help the artists with launching their music for a wide set of audiences and also... Read More

Tanay Singh Thakur August 11th, 2022 11:21 AM 16 COMMENTS

Airtel Had Most Complaints from Consumers in FY22, Jio had Least

Bharti Airtel, the second-largest telecom operator in India, had the most complaints from consumers in FY22. Airtel was followed by Vodafone Idea (Vi) and then Jio at the bottom of the list of private telcos. According to a PTI report, Devusinh Chauhan said that during FY2021-22, more than five crore complaints came in against the private telecom operators. Out of this, most of the complaints were against Bharti Airtel (about... Read More

Tanay Singh Thakur August 10th, 2022 8:35 AM 0 COMMENTS

Samsung Gets a Boost in Telecom Business with Airtel

Earlier this year, Samsung was reportedly in talks with the Indian government to participate in the PLI (Production Linked Incentive) scheme for the telecom sector. At that point, the company was said to be in talks with Airtel at that point for 5G gear. A few days back, right after the conclusion of Spectrum Auction 2022 for 5G airwaves in India, Airtel awarded Samsung with a contract for 5G deployment... Read More

Tanay Singh Thakur August 9th, 2022 7:13 PM 66 COMMENTS

Airtel Explains Why it Didn’t Go for 700 MHz Spectrum

In the recently concluded 5G spectrum auction, Reliance Jio was the only one who went for the 700 MHz frequency band for offering 5G services. Airtel, which could have bid for the airwaves, didn't go for it. This led to many questioning why Airtel didn't go for the 700 MHz band. Well, Airtel's CEO, Gopal Vittal, has cleared that for us. But before we do that, we need to understand... Read More

Tanay Singh Thakur August 9th, 2022 4:07 PM 16 COMMENTS

Airtel CEO Reveals by When Company will Offer PAN-India 5G

Airtel CEO, Gopal Vittal, talking to the analysts at the investors' call, revealed that the company believes it will be able to deliver PAN-India 5G coverage by March 2024. It is quite a long time from here, but in hindsight, not so long as Vittal is basically saying Airtel will be able to provide 5G in all parts of India within a span of two years. The company will start... Read More

Tanay Singh Thakur August 8th, 2022 5:21 PM 1 COMMENTS

Bharti Airtel ARPU at Rs 183 in Q1 FY23, Posts Rs 1607 Crore Net Profit

Bharti Airtel has announced financial results for Q1 FY23. The telco has posted quarterly revenues of Rs 32,805 crore, up by 22.5% YoY. India business of Airtel posted quarterly revenues of Rs 23,319 crore, up by 23.8% YoY. Airtel also reported a significant gain in mobile services revenue from India, which is up by 27.4% YoY, due to an increase in average revenue per user (ARPU) and strong 4G subscriber... Read More

Tanay Singh Thakur August 8th, 2022 6:55 AM 17 COMMENTS

Airtel and Jio will Likely Serve Most of the 5G Users in India: Opinion

Bharti Airtel and Reliance Jio are the two telecom operators who will make the biggest impact with 5G in India. Jio will likely reach more places in a more efficient manner with 5G because of the presence of the sub-GHz spectrum. What's interesting about the sub-GHz spectrum? Well, Jio will be able to reach rural areas and deliver 5G at a much lower cost than the other telcos that will... Read More

Bhavya Singh August 7th, 2022 9:40 PM 2 COMMENTS

Jio, Airtel, VIL, and Adani Receive Demand Notices from Telecom Department

All four businesses that purchased spectrum in the recently finished auction have received demand notices from the Department of Telecommunications (DoT) requiring them to provide payments by August 16. The telcos have the choice of making 20 equal annual payments. The telecom companies may also opt to make a partial advance payment (which may be multiple full years with a minimum of two years) or the full sum. Reliance Jio's... Read More

Tanay Singh Thakur August 6th, 2022 8:32 AM 1 COMMENTS

Airtel Diversifying 5G Gear Vendors to Stay on Top of Cost Control

Every telco in India right now wants to control the cost of their spending on 5G gear. Being reliant on a single vendor such as Nokia or Ericsson won't work well for a company like Airtel. If that were to be the case, then it would be the vendors who would run the show and charge exorbitant money from the telcos for gear. But Airtel has played it safe here... Read More