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Saturday, November 2, 2024
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Topic: Airtel

Airtel, in cost war with Reliance, plans London IPO for Africa arm to cut debt

Airtel is Africa’s second-largest mobile operator with almost 100 million subscribers across 14 countries in the continent.

Mukesh Ambani’s Jio juggernaut is running over Sunil Mittal’s Airtel in mobile war

Airtel is struggling to add subscribers in a saturated market after Jio managed to lure more than 300 million users over the past 3 years.

Supreme Court agrees to hear CBI plea against Vodafone & Airtel in Saradha chit fund case

CBI claimed that Vodafone and Airtel were not providing full call detail records of the accused in the scam despite repeated requests.

Everyone is growing but no one is making money in India’s champion sectors

Aviation, telecom and e-commerce/digital businesses are all success stories, but the issue is the same in all three sectors: Profitability.

The NRC update is ‘not final’, and scientists just found a new shape

Front page 40 lakh in Assam labelled ‘illegals’. The Times of India has pegged its report on the NRC update on the 40 lakh people left...

From Hadiya to Tanvi Seth, casual bigotry is fashionable, politically celebrated

The blatant display of communal hatred in everyday lives shows the scary direction towards which New India is moving.

Airtel’s passive-aggressive, angst-ridden response misses the main point about bigotry

Airtel should know that in times like these, neutrality is a conscious choice of allowing tacit support to bigots.

In battle against Jio, Sunil Mittal’s tower deal tells Ambani he’s no walkover

Billionaire Sunil Bharti Mittal, who controls India’s largest mobile company, has just signaled a $14.6 billion fight to the finish. 

How long is a quarter? 6 months if you’re Reliance Jio

When it posted results for July through September last year, Jio’s operating earnings were $220 million. Overall, it had a loss of $41 million, and subscriber numbers were growing 12 percent a quarter.  But, Jio packed six months of sales into one quarter while counting only 3 months of expenses. 

Airtel and Jio prepare for a Rs 36,500 crore final telecom battle

Mittal-controlled Bharti Airtel and Mukesh Ambani's Reliance Jio Infocomm bond sale may finally end India's steep telecom price pain.

On Camera

Bibek Debroy was an ‘Acharya’ in India’s intellectual history

In the centuries to come, economist Bibek Debroy's Mahabharata will attain the importance we attach to the texts of Shankara, Ramanuja, and Madhvacharya.

Watch CutTheClutter: Flattening INR-USD rate, and debate on pros and cons of a ‘strong’ rupee

In Episode 1544 of CutTheClutter, Editor-in-Chief Shekhar Gupta looks at some top economists pointing to the pitfalls of ‘currency nationalism’ with data from 1991 to 2004.

All about Major Bob Khathing, whose daring expedition & diplomatic parleys secured Tawang for India

The decorated Naga officer from Manipur also served as envoy to Myanmar & Nagaland chief secy. Defence Minister Rajnath Singh inaugurated a museum dedicated to the Tawang hero Thursday.

From 2004 to 2024, bad news has come wrapped as good news for Congress

Congress is silently acknowledging it over-read verdict of last general election. You can see it in easy concession to SP. It will likely be more reasonable in Maharashtra & Jharkhand.