Airtel, Alphabet unit tie up for laser based high speed Internet deliveryThe latest laser internet technology has been developed at Alphabet’s California innovation lab, called X, and the project is known interna...
26 Jun, 2023, 10.54 PM IST
Telcos want the likes of WhatsApp, Telegram to come under Trai; Byju’s in funding talks with TPGTelecom operators, including Reliance Jio, Bharti Airtel and Vodafone Idea, have once again made a strong pitch for regulation of communica...
16 Feb, 2023, 07.27 PM IST
Bharti Airtel OKs preferential share allotment to Google for 1.2% stakeBack in January, Google had announced an investment of up to $1 billion in Bharti Airtel. Of this, $700 million would be for a 1.2% stake (...
14 Jul, 2022, 04.18 PM IST
Airtel shareholders okay Google investment in telcoAirtel is the second telco after market leader, Reliance Jio, to receive funding from Google. The US search services leader needs more and ...
27 Feb, 2022, 02.42 PM IST
Airtel likely to raise up to ₹5,000 crore via rupee bondsOne of the people said a possible dollar-bond floatation in offshore markets could only be in the latter part of the April-June quarter. Th...
22 Feb, 2022, 07.21 AM IST
Tariff hikes may help Airtel beat Reliance Jio, Vi on revenue shareThe Sunil Mittal-led telco's India mobile revenues increased about 6% sequentially in the quarter to December 2021, compared to the 3.3% gr...
11 Feb, 2022, 07.31 PM IST
Google to invest up to $1 billion in Airtel; to co-create India-specific 5G use casesUp to $300 million will go towards implementing commercial agreements, which will include investments in scaling Airtel’s offerings that co...
29 Jan, 2022, 09.00 AM IST
No conflict of interest in Google deal, says Airtel CEOHe said Airtel’s pact to make handsets more affordable in a tie up with Google and handset makers has no exclusivity element to it. Airtel ...
29 Jan, 2022, 12.12 AM IST
Jio, Airtel may corner more market share at the cost of Voda Idea post auction: AnalystsGoldman Sachs expects “Jio to have largely closed its gap with Bharti and Vi on total spectrum,” though it said data carried on the Mukesh ...
03 Mar, 2021, 01.39 PM IST
Vodafone Idea MD Ravinder Takkar rejects Mukesh Ambani’s call for 2G free IndiaThe Vodafone Idea (VIL) MD’s views came less than a fortnight after Ambani had urged telecom minister Ravi Shankar Prasad to speed up polic...
10 Aug, 2020, 09.51 AM IST
Airtel, Amazon Web Services eye pact to tap SMB marketThe pairing will be pitted against the Reliance Jio Infocomm-Microsoft combine as they compete for a share of the surging public cloud mark...
05 Aug, 2020, 09.00 AM IST
Mukesh Ambani urges government to take necessary policy steps to make India 2G-mukt“India still has 300 million mobile subscribers trapped in the 2G era, their feature phones keep them excluded even from the basic users of...
01 Aug, 2020, 06.36 AM IST
Heat rising on Vodafone Idea and Bharti AirtelAnalysts said the formidable Jio-Google combination’s plans to launch low-cost 4G and 5G phones could accelerate feature phone customer mig...
16 Jul, 2020, 08.29 AM IST
Airtel, Google Cloud partner for enterprise businessTelecom operator Bharti Airtel and Google Cloud on Monday announced a partnership to serve small and medium businesses with digital solutio...
20 Jan, 2020, 10.48 PM IST
Google Fibre clone: How Sterlite plans to provide high speed internet in 20 citiesSterlite will deliver super-fast fibre broadband connectivity at 20 to 50 Mbps speeds to urban homes through partner mobile operators.
22 Sep, 2014, 10.15 AM IST
- Bharti Airtel inks pact with four IT firms
Bharti Airtel, India’s largest mobile operator, has inked pacts with four global IT majors - Alcatel-Lucent owned Mobilitec, Germany-based ...
07 Aug, 2007, 01.21 AM IST
- Airtel signs pact with Google
Airtel’s over 28 million mobile customers across India will for the first time be able to use the Google search engine to access internet c...
30 Nov, 2006, 07.40 PM IST