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Airtel Closes In On Zain Acquisition: $8.3Bn Financing Oversubscribed

By Nikhil Pahwa on March 22nd, 2010 |

Dow Jones Launches WSJ Mobile App On Airtel

By Diwaskar Chettri on March 18th, 2010 |

Dow Jones has launched The Wall Street Journal India Mobile application with Indian telco Bharti Airtel, giving users access to the latest international and Indian financial and business news from The ... Continue_Reading

BBC News Launches Premium Voice Blog On Airtel; How Will It Become Viral?

By Nikhil Pahwa on March 15th, 2010 |

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Bharti Airtel has launched Airtel Blog, powered by Bubble Motion’s Bubbly. Any Airtel subscriber can sign up for their own blog by dialling *7*, and ask their friends and family to ... Continue_Reading

Airtel Launches Digital Media Distribution Biz; Bigger Play Than Digital Cinema

By Nikhil Pahwa on March 12th, 2010 |

Bharti Airtel Again Reshuffles Top Brass: Jai Menon & Amrita Gangotra

By Preethi J on March 3rd, 2010 |

SBI Partners With Airtel & BSNL For Mobile Money Transfers

By Preethi J on February 25th, 2010 |

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After YES Bank partnered with Nokia to launch Nokia Money in India, India’s largest bank State Bank of India has stepped up its own efforts to bring mobile banking to ... Continue_Reading

Airtel-Zain: Payout Of $9 Billion Expected; $255.38 Per Customer

By Nikhil Pahwa on February 17th, 2010 |

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Airtel has set an enterprise value of Zain Africa at $10.7 billion, with $10 billion to be paid on closing, and $700 million to be paid one year after the ... Continue_Reading

Updated: Airtel In Talks To Acquire Zain Africa

By Preethi J on February 16th, 2010 |

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Update: An ownership dispute between Econet Wireless and Zain has come in the way of Airtel’s plans to acquire the latter’s African operations, with Business World reporting Econet Chief Executive ... Continue_Reading

Bharti Airtel Partners With Limelight Networks For CDN Services

By Diwaskar Chettri on February 15th, 2010 |

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Bharti Airtel has announced a partnership with Limelight Networks for Content Delivery Network (CDN) services in India. With the agreement Bharti Airtel will be able to deliver rich content from Indian ... Continue_Reading

Updated: Airtel’s AppCentral Launched; 28% Rev Share; E-books App

By Preethi J on February 13th, 2010 |

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Corrigendum: We had incorrectly stated that AppCentral is not accessible to post paid customers. It does work for them using Airtel Live WAP access, but not for Mobile Office (Mobile ... Continue_Reading

Airtel Launches Doctor Appointments Via Mobile In Sri Lanka

By Nikhil Pahwa on February 10th, 2010 |

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Bharti Airtel Lanka has launched a service that allows its subscribers to book doctor appointments and medical checkups in Sri Lanka, reports DailyMirror. The service, available to both prepaid and ... Continue_Reading

Updated: Court Reverses Order On Telemarketing In India

By Preethi J on January 25th, 2010 |

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Update: The Indian telecom regulatory body TRAI has been struck with the realisation, supremely delayed as it is, that consumer complaints are not being addressed by the three-tiered structure most ... Continue_Reading