Bharti Airtel

Bharti Airtel Limited is a leading global telecommunications company with operations in 18 countries across Asia and Africa. Headquartered in New Delhi, India, the company ranks amongst the top 3 mobile service providers globally in terms of subscribers.

Wi-Fi

Airtel launches ‘Airtel Wi-Fi Calling’ - India's first Voice over Wi-Fi service

Mobile

Wynk Music is now India’s number one music app by Daily Active Users

Mobile

Airtel bolsters Airtel X labs portfolio with acquihire of Quikmile

Telco & CSP

Statement from Bharti Airtel

Telco & CSP

Airtel launches Enterprise Hub, a one-stop digital self-care portal for enterprise customers

Broadband

Airtel Home Broadband gets a new brand identity with ‘Xstream Fibre’

Mobile

Airtel launches unique program to support start-ups and accelerate their growth

Mobile

Airtel Africa announces partnership with Mastercard to transform digital payments landscape and connect 100m consumers in Africa

4G LTE

Airtel shuts down 3G network in Punjab, upgrades customers to high speed 4G network

Video

Airtel outlines its digital entertainment vision with the launch of ‘Airtel Xstream’

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Mobile

Indian state budget suggests recovery in telecoms market this year

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Legacy 2G/3G

3G sunsetting slowly gathers pace

Mobile

Airtel Payments Bank launches Atal Pension Yojana

4G LTE

Airtel upgrades 4G network in Delhi NCR, deploys LTE 900 technology to boost indoor coverage

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5G

Mobile price rises in India to be dwarfed by cost of 5G

Finance & Banking

Airtel partners with HDFC Life to build a financially secure India

Video

Airtel launches ‘Wynk Tube’ to bring Digital Entertainment to the next 200 million smartphone users

SD-WAN

Airtel and Cisco announce strategic alliance to bring advanced connectivity solutions to enterprise and SMB customers

Unified Communications

Airtel collaborates with Zoom to launch Unified Communications Solution for businesses

Optical

Airtel and Ciena to build one of the world's largest photonic control plane networks for delivering ultra-fast data over 4G, 5G and FTTH

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Fronthaul

Fronthaul specifications released by O-RAN Alliance to open 5G RAN

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4G LTE

Airtel 4G rollout rumbles on with 900-MHz launch in Andhra Pradesh and Telangana

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Spectrum

Bharti needs billions to tackle its debt mountain

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Middle East & Africa

Doubt over debt-reduction plan at Bharti's African ops