Bharti Airtel has hit a major 5G customer milestone, but its network rollout does not fit with the Indian government’s efforts to encourage the design and manufacture of 5G kit within its borders.
Bharti Airtel on Thursday made a formal announcement on the launch of 5G services in key Indian markets and revealed that it will not make customers pay more for the technology until its rollout is more widespread.
As India finally enters the 5G era, Bharti Airtel is keen to push on with an accompanying edge deployment.
Singtel has inked a S$2.25 billion (US$1.6 billion) deal to offload a 3.3 percent direct stake in Bharti Airtel as part of its broader asset monetisation push.
Indian operator Bharti Airtel’s recently announced 5G network will cover 5000 towns in India by March 2024, its MD is reported to have announced.
Indian telco Bharti Airtel has recruited Ericsson, Nokia and Samsung to enable its 5G rollout, which will commence round about now.
Indian MNO Bharti Airtel has said it will snap up a 4.7 percent stake in cell tower firm Indus Towers from Vodafone Idea.
India’s Bharti Airtel has divulged plans to spend more than a trillion rupees doing business with its group companies over the next five years.
US technology giant Google will invest up to $1 billion in Indian telecoms giant Airtel as part of its Google for India Digitization Fund.
Bharti Airtel has abandoned plans to reorganise its business, buoyed by the Indian telecoms reform package, but is still shuffling certain assets, including bringing a fibre business in house.
Bharti Airtel is reportedly holding early talks to acquire control of Dish TV India almost two years after a previous takeover attempt fell apart.
Two of the three major Indian mobile network operators have felt forced to increase the price of many of their tariffs so they can pay their bills.
Ethiopia has formally announced that it will launch the process to award a second new mobile licence later this month, including a permit to offer financial services. But despite the removal of what has been widely seen as a key stumbling block in the liberalisation of the country’s telecoms market, African telco giant MTN is reportedly no longer interested.
India’s dream of developing and exporting its own 5G networking equipment has taken another step towards becoming reality.
India is ready to start testing 5G, according to the country’s communications minister, who this week called upon the country’s telcos to opt for homegrown technology for the 5G core.
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Beleaguered communications satellite company OneWeb has emerged from Chapter 11 bankruptcy with fresh cash and a new CEO.
OneWeb will soon be back in business, after a US Bankruptcy Court gave the go-ahead for its billion-dollar rescue by the UK government and Bharti Global.
The Indian Supreme Court had made the final judgment on the matter of the mountain of cash owed to the government by Vodafone Idea and Bharti Airtel.
Competition in the Indian market might get a lot smaller as the Indian Supreme Court rules Vodafone Idea and Bharti Airtel will both have to pay Government estimates on spectrum fees.
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