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Airtel
Bharti Airtel Limited is an Indian multinational telecommunications company based in New Delhi. It operates in 18 countries across South Asia and Africa, as well as the Channel Islands. Currently, Airtel provides 5G, 4G and LTE Advanced services throughout India. Currently offered services include fixed-line broadband, and voice services depending upon the country of operation. Airtel had also rolled out its Voice over LTE (VoLTE) technology across all Indian telecom circles. It is the second largest mobile network operator in India and the second largest mobile network operator in the world. Airtel was named India's 2nd most valuable brand in the first ever Brandz ranking by Millward Brown and WPP plc. Airtel is credited with pioneering the strategic management of outsourcing all of its business operations except marketing, sales and finance and building the 'minutes factory' model of low cost and high volumes. The strategy has since been adopted by several operators ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Airtel Africa
Airtel Africa plc is a British company that provides telecommunications and mobile money services in 14 countries in Africa, primarily in East, Central and West Africa. Airtel Africa is majority owned by the Indian telecommunications company Bharti Airtel. Airtel Africa offers mobile voice and data services as well as mobile money services both nationally and internationally. Airtel Nigeria is the most profitable unit of Airtel Africa, due to its cheap data plans in Nigeria. As of March 2019, Airtel had over 99 million subscribers in the continent. It is listed on the London Stock Exchange and is a constituent of the FTSE 100 Index. History MTN Group merger negotiations In May 2008, it emerged that Airtel was exploring the possibility of buying the MTN Group, a South Africa-based telecommunications company with operations in 21 countries in Africa and the Middle East. ''The Financial Times'' reported that Bharti was considering offering US$45 billion for a 100% stake in M ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Airtel India
Airtel India is the List of telecom companies in India#Wireless operators, second largest provider of mobile telephony and List of telecom companies in India#Wireline operators, third largest provider of Landline, fixed telephony in India, and is also a provider of broadband and Pay television, subscription television services. The brand is operated by several subsidiaries of Bharti Airtel, with Bharti Hexacom and Bharti Telemedia providing broadband fixed line services and Bharti Infratel providing telecom passive infrastructure service such as telecom equipment and telecom towers. Currently, Airtel provides 5G, 4G and LTE Advanced, 4G+ services all over India. Currently offered services include fixed-line broadband, and voice services depending upon the country of operation. Airtel had also rolled out its Voice over LTE, VoLTE technology across all Indian telecom circles. Airtel is the first Indian telecom service provider to achieve Cisco Gold Certification. It also acts as ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Airtel Payments Bank
Airtel Payments Bank is an Indian payments bank with its headquarters in New Delhi. The company is a subsidiary of Bharti Airtel. On 5 January 2022, it was granted the scheduled bank status by the Reserve Bank of India under the second schedule of RBI Act, 1934. History In 2015, eleven companies received In-principle approval from the Reserve Bank of India to set up Payments Bank under the guidelines for Licensing of Payments Bank. On 11 April 2016, Airtel Payments Bank became the first company to receive the Payments Bank license from the Reserve Bank of India under Section 22 (1) of the Banking Regulation Act, 1949. Airtel Payments Bank started with an 80:20 partnership between Bharti Airtel and Kotak Mahindra Bank. Bharti Airtel launched Airtel Payments Bank in September 2016 and went live with its pilot project in Rajasthan in November 2016. It was launched nationally in January 2017 to support the cashless revolution promised by the Government of India. In August 202 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Airtel Digital TV
Airtel Digital TV is an Indian subscription based satellite television provider owned by Bharti Telemedia Limited, a wholly-owned subsidiary of Bharti Airtel. It launched DTH satellite television service in India on 9 October 2008. Airtel Digital TV is India's second largest DTH operator second largest DTH operator in India by number of subscribers. As of 31 December 2022, it had a market share of 26.35%. History Bharti Telemedia Limited was incorporated on 30 November 2006 as a subsidiary of Bharti Airtel. The company announced plans to launch direct-to-home satellite television services across India on 7 August 2007. The service was launched on 9 October 2008 under the brand name Airtel Digital TV. On 4 May 2011, Airtel digital TV announced the launch of its first high-definition digital video recorder (HD-DVR) priced at and for existing and new customers respectively. On 24 May 2011, Airtel announced that its HD and HD-DVR boxes were software-enabled to view standa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bharti Enterprises
Bharti Enterprises Limited is an Indian multinational corporation, multinational Conglomerate (company), conglomerate, headquartered in Delhi. It was founded in 1976 by Sunil Bharti Mittal. Bharti Enterprises owns businesses spanning across telecommunications, manufacturing, insurance, real estate, hospitality. The group's flagship company, Bharti Airtel, is a telecom service provider with operations in more than 18 countries across Asia, Africa and Europe. The company ranks amongst the top two List of mobile network operators, mobile network operators globally by number of subscribers. History The company was founded by Sunil Bharti Mittal with his two siblings in 1976. The company initially started manufacturing bicycles before diversifying into other sectors. It entered into telecommunications industry in 1995. Companies Bharti is present in many sectors with the largest revenue contribution coming from the telecom industry. Bharti Airtel Bharti Telecom (BTL), is a holdin ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Payments Bank
Payments banks are a new model of banks, conceptualised by the Reserve Bank of India (RBI), which cannot issue credit. These banks can accept a restricted deposit, which is currently limited to Indian rupee, ₹200,000 per customer and may be increased further. These banks cannot issue loans and credit cards. Both current account and savings accounts can be operated by such banks. Payments banks can issue ATM cards or debit cards and provide online or mobile banking. Bharti Airtel set up India's first payments bank, Airtel Payments Bank. History On 23 September 2013, Committee on Comprehensive Financial Services for Small Businesses and Low Income Households, headed by Nachiket Mor, was formed by the RBI. On 7 January 2014, the Nachiket Mor committee submitted its final report. Among its various recommendations, it recommended the formation of a new category of bank called payments bank. On 17 July 2014, the RBI released the draft guidelines for payment banks, seeking comments fo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sunil Mittal
Sunil Bharti Mittal (born 23 October 1957) is an Indian industrialist and philanthropist. He is the founder and chairman of Bharti Enterprises, which has diversified interests in telecom, insurance, real estate, education, malls, hospitality, Agri and food besides other ventures. Bharti Airtel, the group's flagship company is one of the world's largest and India's largest telecom company with operations in 18 countries across Asia and Africa with a customer base of over 399 million. Bharti Airtel clocked revenues of over in FY2023. In 2023 he was ranked the 10th richest person in India by ''Forbes'', with an estimated net worth of . In October 2024, Sunil Mittal was ranked seventh on Forbes list of India’s 100 richest tycoons, with a net worth of $30.7 billion. In 2007, he was awarded the Padma Bhushan, India's third highest civilian honor. On 15 June 2016, he was elected as Chairman of the International Chamber of Commerce. Early life Sunil Bharti Mittal was born in ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Airtel-Vodafone
Airtel-Vodafone Limited is a mobile network operator located in Jersey and Guernsey (Channel Islands), and regulated by the Channel Islands Competition and Regulatory Authorities. Until 2024, it was a joint venture between Bharti Airtel and Vodafone Group Plc. In March 2008, nine months after first launching in Jersey, Airtel-Vodafone expanded operations to Guernsey. In November 2024, the firm was acquired by Sure, a subsidiary of Beyon located in the Channel Islands. See also * Bharti Airtel * Vodafone Group * Telecommunications in Jersey * List of mobile network operators For a more comprehensive list of mobile phone operators, see Mobile country codes. Terrestrial This is a list of the world's 25 largest terrestrial mobile phone network operators measured by number of subscriptions. Satellite based This i ... References External links * Bharti Airtel Vodafone Companies of Guernsey Telecommunications companies of Jersey 2024 mergers and acquisitio ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gopal Vittal
Gopal Vittal (born 1967) is an Indian business executive. He is the Chief executive officer, Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of Bharti Airtel (India) and South Asia, an Indian multinational telecommunications services company with operations in 20 countries. Vittal has an undergraduate degree from Madras Christian College and MBA from Indian Institute of Management Calcutta, IIM Calcutta. He did his schooling at Rishi Valley School in Andhra Pradesh, India. Career After graduating from Indian Institute of Management Calcutta, IIM Calcutta in 1990, he joined Hindustan Unilever, Hindustan Unilever Limited (HUL), one of India's biggest fast moving consumer goods, FMCG companies. Early in his career at HUL, he did two stints as an Area Sales Manager, and worked in Brooke Bond and several skincare brands. One of his biggest achievements in HUL was ''Project Bharat'', a successful rural-reach strategy that incentivized people in rural areas to try HUL's products. In 2006, he was roped ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Indus Towers
Indus Towers Limited is an Indian telecommunications infrastructure company offering passive infrastructure services to mobile network operators and other wireless services providers. Headquartered in Gurugram, Haryana, Indus Towers was incorporated in November 2007 by Bharti Infratel (a subsidiary of Bharti Airtel), Vodafone Essar, and Idea Cellular, to provide shared telecom infrastructure to telecom operators on a non-discriminatory basis. Bharti Infratel merged with Indus Towers on 19 November 2020, creating one of the largest mobile tower infrastructure operators in the world. Post-merger, Bharti Airtel held a 36.73% stake in Indus Towers, with Vodafone Group Plc holding 28.12%, and 3.1% shares held by Providence Equity. Currently Indus Towers is a subsidiary of Bharati Airtel after the latter increased it's stake to 50.005% & Vodafone Group Plc exited the company Indus Towers Limited has over 192,874 towers and 342,831 co-locations and a nationwide presence co ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Singtel
Singapore Telecommunications Limited, trading as Singtel, is a Singaporean telecommunications conglomerate, the country's principal fixed-line operator and one of the four major mobile network operators operating in the country. Overview The company is the largest mobile network operator in Singapore with 4.1 million subscribers and through subsidiaries, has a combined mobile subscriber base of 770 million customers as of 31 March 2022. The company was known as Telecommunications Equipment until 1995. Singtel provides ISP, IPTV ( Singtel TV) and mobile phone networks and fixed line telephony services. Singtel has expanded aggressively outside its home market and owns shares in many regional operators, including full ownership of Australia's second largest telco Optus and 32.15% of Bharti Airtel, the second largest carrier in India. Singtel controls significant market share in Australia and Singapore, with 82% of the fixed-line market, 47% of the mobile market and 4 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
BSE SENSEX
The BSE SENSEX (also known as the S&P Bombay Stock Exchange Sensitive Index or simply SENSEX) is a free-float market-weighted stock market index of 30 well-established and financially sound companies listed on the Bombay Stock Exchange. The 30 constituent companies which are some of the largest and most actively traded stocks, are representative of various industrial sectors of the Indian economy. Published since 1 January 1986, the S&P BSE SENSEX is regarded as the pulse of the domestic stock markets in India. The base value of the SENSEX was taken as ''100'' on 1 April 1979 and its base year as ''1978–79''. On 25 July 2001, BSE launched DOLLEX-, a dollar-linked version of the SENSEX. Etymology The term Sensex was coined by Deepak Mohoni, a stock market analyst in 1989. BSE Sensitive Index then was at about 750 points. Sensex is a portmanteau of the words Sensitive and Index. Calculation The BSE has some reviews and modifies its composition to be sure it reflects curren ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
