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Yashika Goel February 28th, 2024 8:05 PM 0 COMMENTS

Bharti Chairman Sunil Bharti Mittal Receives Knighthood from UK’s King Charles

Sunil Bharti Mittal, the Chairman of Bharti Enterprises, has been conferred with the title of Honorary Knighthood by Britain's King Charles III. This makes Mittal the first Indian citizen to receive such an honor, marking a significant milestone in Indo-British relations. The Honorary Knighthood, known as the Knight Commander of the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire (KBE), is one of the highest civilian honours bestowed by the British... Read More

Bhavya Singh November 30th, 2022 4:57 PM 5 COMMENTS

Bharti Airtel Chairman Sunil Mittal Wants Govt to Reduce Burden on Telcos

The chairman of Bharti Enterprises, Sunil Bharti Mittal, stated on Tuesday at the Global Technology Summit hosted by Carnegie India that the telecom sector is a very capital-intensive industry that costs billions of dollars to set up the infrastructure and that, as a result, a better tax system is needed to have a strong, sustainable, infrastructure provider in the nation. The Telcos’ Tax Burden Should Be Reduced According to a... Read More

Tanay Singh Thakur May 26th, 2022 8:58 AM 5 COMMENTS

Singtel Might Sell $2 Billion Stake in Airtel to Sunil Bharti Mittal

Singtel, a major stakeholder in Bharti Telecom, a promoter company of Bharti Airtel, is reportedly looking to sell a stake of up to $1-$2 billion through a mix of shares in Bharti Telecom and Bharti Airtel to Sunil Bharti Mittal, another prominent stakeholder in the company. Note that both the promoters already have direct equity in Bharti Airtel as well. According to an ET report, the exact details of the... Read More

Tanay Singh Thakur May 25th, 2022 5:21 PM 0 COMMENTS

Sunil Bharti Mittal Hopes Sanity Returns to Supply Chains: Report

Bharti Enterprises Chairman Sunil Bharti Mittal on Wednesday said that he hopes sanity comes back to the supply chain as fast as possible. According to a PTI report, Mittal said that the world has become much more difficult. What he meant was in terms of doing business, things have become hard. For a long time, the equipment was being provided by China at a low cost globally. But since that... Read More

Tanay Singh Thakur December 11th, 2021 9:48 AM 7 COMMENTS

Why Airtel Is Asking to Share Telecom Infra

Bharti Airtel, on multiple occasions now, have said that sharing of telecom infrastructure is important. Sunil Bharti Mittal, Chairman, Bharti Enterprises, during the India Mobile Congress (IMC) 2021, reiterated that while adding new subscribers faster than the competition is important, the telcos also need to start working together. From this, Mittal meant that the telcos need to be able to see the larger picture and start sharing telecom infrastructure with... Read More

Tanay Singh Thakur December 8th, 2021 6:07 PM 0 COMMENTS

AGR Dues Deferment Brought Great Relief for One Operator: Mittal

Before the relief measures were announced for the telecom sector, India was scared of a duopoly between Bharti Airtel and Reliance Jio. Vodafone Idea had a mountain of debt and was just not getting a break. The telco wasn’t adding subscribers, nor had it made any profits for years. The general perception of the market was that Vodafone Idea (vi) was going to go out of business, if not right... Read More

Tanay Singh Thakur December 8th, 2021 3:02 PM 8 COMMENTS

Telcos Must Collaborate, Share Infra Costs: Mittal

The telecom sector of India is one of the most ruthless places for private companies to be in. Sunil Bharti Mittal, Chairman of Bharti Enterprises, has been attached to the sector for decades now. Speaking at the Indian Mobile Congress (IMC) 2021, Mittal said that while it is important to fight really hard to gain new customers, the companies must also learn to collaborate together. Mittal said that there’s a... Read More

Tanay Singh Thakur November 12th, 2021 2:03 PM 0 COMMENTS

DoT Wants TRAI’s Help to Understand How to Allocate Spectrum

The Department of Telecommunications (DoT) wants the help of the Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (TRAI) to understand the way the spectrum should be allocated in the future. The telecom department is confused about whether it should administratively allocate the spectrum to the satellite communications (satcom) companies or whether they should also get it through the auctions. According to a Financial Express report, the regulator has sought information from the... Read More

Tanay Singh Thakur September 16th, 2021 8:29 PM 26 COMMENTS

Sunil Bharti Mittal to Talk With Ambani for Coordinated Approach

Sunil Bharti Mittal, Chairman of Bharti Enterprises, wants the telecom operators to come together for building a unified strategy and reviving the sector. Mittal said that the telcos have been cutting each other for getting a larger market share. As per the Indian business tycoon, it’s high time that the industry regroups and focuses on building a sustainable business. For the same, Mittal recently spoke to Nick Read, CEO of... Read More

Tanay Singh Thakur August 30th, 2021 4:10 PM 36 COMMENTS

Bharti Airtel Will Not Shy Away from Raising Tariffs: Mittal

Sunil Bharti Mittal, Founder and Chairperson, Bharti Enterprises said that Airtel won’t shy away from increasing tariffs. Mittal has time and again said that the industry needs tariff hikes to sustain and the average revenue per user (ARPU) should be near Rs 200 at least. Bharti Airtel recently discontinued its Rs 49 prepaid plan. The telco started offering the base plan of Rs 79 to the users. This wasn’t a... Read More

Arpit Sharma August 10th, 2021 5:24 PM 14 COMMENTS

Bharti Airtel to Usher Investments for Rapid 5G Development

Bharti Airtel, on Tuesday, sent out an annual report to stock exchanges detailing its affairs and numbers for the year-end at the end of the previous financial year. In the report, the head of the second-biggest telecom company, Sunil Bharti Mittal, made some statements that included words about Airtel’s preparedness about the 5G network. In the report, he remarked that Bharti Airtel was ready for the deployment of 5G network... Read More

Arpit Sharma July 5th, 2021 12:42 PM 0 COMMENTS

OneWeb to Bring Down Prices of Access Terminal for Satellites

Bharti Airtel is one company that has been known to delve its hands into almost every tech arena possible. The Sunil Mittal led company’s latest bet is on satellite arm OneWeb, under which it wants to reduce user access costs to different types of satellite. To make this possible, OneWeb is in talks with multiple companies, some domestic and other international, to make this transition to low cost possible. Some... Read More