Leading telecom service provider Bharti Airtel on Wednesday (8th April) launched a new offer for its US customers to enable them to make calls to India at 1 cent per minute using online calling cards. The new offer is called as IndiaOne Offer. Airtel subscribers can buy this calling card for $10 by ...

India's leading private broadband service provider, Bharti Airtel has launched 16 Mbps broadband service in the country. This broadband service is powered by Airtel's Carrier Ethernet Network. It will be initially available in Delhi NCR, Chennai and Bangalore, but soon be rolled out in Hyderabad, ...

Telecom major Bharti Airtel's stock has been under pressure after news spread that the company's CEO Manoj Kohli has sold part of his stock holding in the open market. Mr Kohli sold about 1.23 lakh shares in the company on March 6 and 9. Responding to the media queries he said that, he had sold his ...

One of Asia’s leading integrated telecom services providers, Bharti Airtel Limited has announced the withdrawal of ‘95’ dialing for long distance calling on its fixed line service. This withdrawal decision was taken as per the directive from Department of Telecom (DoT), Government ...

Airtel and Research In Motion jointly launched a new service plan called BlackBerry Personal Mail for Airtel customers in India. The new personal mail service plan of Rs 499 per month offers Airtel customers to have unlimited email and instant messaging (IM) facilities on BlackBerry smartphone. ...

Leading private cellular operator, Bharti Airtel started its Internet Protocol Television (IPTV) services in Delhi and national capital region on January 20. While talking to the media, Bharti Airtel President (Telemedia) Atul Bindal informed that Airtel has also planned to expand its IPTV services ...

India's largest mobile operator Bharti Airtel on Monday (12th January) launched its mobile services in Sri Lanka under 'Airtel' brand and announced a total investment of $200 million till 2012 in the neighbouring country.
 
Of this, the company has already invested $100 million to commission ...

To offer a new service that will enable prepaid users to recharge their accounts while roaming on a third party operator’s network, Bharti Telesoft, a part of the Bharti group has tied up with Telecom Italia Sparkle (TIS), the international business development arm of Telecom Italia.
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Airtel has sorted out inter-connectivity issue in Sri Lanka and will start its operation in island nation from next month. The project that had come around one year ago is about to complete. According to Bharti Enterprises VP&MD Rajan Mittal Airtel will roll out the services next month as ...

India's most successful telecom service provider Bharti Airtel has decided to enter into a strategic partnership with IT major Infosys Technologies Ltd. The new deal is aimed at providing digital TV viewing on a DTH (direct to home) platform. Under the new deal, Airtel will be getting all the ...

After Tata, Zee, Reliance and Sun TV, it is the turn of Airtel to come out with its direct-to-home (DTH) satellite television service 'Airtel digital TV'. The telecom service company has announced this plan on October 7, 2008. According to company official, the DTH service of Airtel will be ...

Targeting the Non Resident Indians (NRIs) and students in Canada the leading telecom service provider of India Bharati Airtel has launched its virtual calling card services in Canada on October 6, 2008. It is estimated that there are about 1.5 million NRIs and students in Canada. The service ...

Airtel in collaboration with VISA will offer EMI options for iPhone. The company statement says that the firm has entered into an agreement where all VISA cardholders of ICICI, HDFC, SBI and Citibank will get financed for iPhone. Accordingly, the consumers in this scheme will have an easy monthly ...

Though way behind the top two telecom companies, Bharti Airtel of India is fourth largest telecom company in world in terms of customer base with 72.07 million subscribers by July, 2008. The first two are from China. While China Mobile has 414.5 million customers as on June 2008, China Unicom has ...

According to an official release, Airtel subscribers will be able to purchase the iPhone at Airtel's Relationship Centres from August 22. The handset has been quite popular in USA and will touch India soon through an agreement with Bharti Airtel. Apple’s iPhone is a touch screen ...

Bharti Enterprises is focusing on better management and in its forward looking policy, it has considered for changes at top level management. A new office has been created for Chairman and Group Chief Executive Officer (CEO). As of now, Sunil Mittal is in the post. On the other hand Rakesh ...

After recent fiasco in buy out talks between MTN and Bharti Airtel of India, there are reports that MTN again have shown interest to enter into talk for the sale of stake in the company. South African telecom giant MTN have already talked with Reliance and Airltel and nothing came out. In dramatic ...

Bharti Airtel which was trying to buy out MTN has decided to get out of the deal. Both parties had initiated talks about three weeks ago and talks were cordial through out this period and conducted in good faith but later developments are believed to have led to collapse of deal. According to the ...

A three-year outsourcing agreement has been signed between India's largest private telecom provider Bharti Airtel and Firstsource Solutions, the global BPO services provider. Airtel will be offered services like customer accounting, fraud and credit monitoring, customer service, collections and ...

Bharti's plans for taking over the South African telecom giant MTN has entered into a new phase. The Indian telecom major is looking to acquire 51 percent stake in MTN while MTN wants Bharti to buy out the entire company (100 percent stake). Sources say that Bharti has arranged funds for buying ...

Bharti Airtel and Iffco Kisan Sanchar (IKSL) are soon going to launch Blackberry look alike mobile phone for the rural masses. Airtel and IKSL will formally launch their rural telephone company JV on Friday, May 2, 2008. IKSL will use its network for marketing whereas Airtel will be the service ...

There is good news for Airtel subscribers. The leading mobile network in India, Bharti Airtel announced on Monday about the reduction in its STD and roaming tariffs. STD rates have been reduced to Rs 1.50 per minute from Rs 2.65 per minute whereas the roaming tariff for an incoming call has ...

Share holders of Bharti Airtel have yet another reason to cheer about. India\'s top mobile operator said on Friday that its quarterly profit rose by 37% rising to 18.53 billion rupees ($461 million). Bharti said that its user base rose 67% than the previous year. It is to be noted that low call ...

After making an impact in the telecommunication sector, Bharti Enterprises is all set to make an impact upon the retail sector in India. The company has joined hands with the world\'s largest retailer, Wal - Mart Stores, and a planning a three tier retail launch. But the major problem according to ...