BSE - Delayed Quote ? INR Bharti Airtel Limited (BHARTIARTL.BO) Follow Compare 1,550.60 +0.20 (+0.01%) At close: November 14 at 3:29 PM GMT+5:30 All News Press Releases SEC Filings All SEC Filings Corporate Changes & Voting Matters Periodic Financial Reports Proxy Statements Tender Offer/Acquisition Reports Offering Registrations India's Vodafone Idea posts bigger-than-expected Q2 loss as user base shrinks The telecom operator narrowed its consolidated loss after tax to 71.76 billion rupees ($850.7 million) for the quarter ended Sept. 30, compared to a loss of 87.38 billion rupees a year ago, helped by an increase in tariffs. Vodafone Idea's user base fell 2.4% sequentially and 6.7% year-on-year to 205 million as of Sept. 30, smaller than Jio's 478.8 million and Airtel's 407 million. All three Indian mobile carriers—Jio, Airtel, and Vodafone Idea—increased their tariffs in June for the first time in over two years, marking a shift in their strategy from aggressive competition for market share towards increasing profitability. Reuters ? 3 days ago IDEA.NS ^YH308 Bharti Airtel Ltd (BOM:532454) Q2 2025 Earnings Call Highlights: Strong Revenue Growth and ... Bharti Airtel Ltd (BOM:532454) reports robust financial performance with significant gains in revenue and cash flow, while addressing customer and market challenges. GuruFocus.com ? 17 days ago ^YH308 Bharti’s Profit Disappoints on One-Off Forex Related Charges (Bloomberg) -- Bharti Airtel Ltd. reported a lower-than-expected quarterly profit as gains from tariff hikes failed to offset the drag from a one-time charges due to foreign exchange losses. 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Reuters ? 19 days ago ^YH308 Nokia in Talks with Bharti Airtel for Multi-Billion Dollar 5G Equipment Deal Nokia Reportedly in Talks with Bharti Airtel for Major 5G Equipment Contract GuruFocus.com ? last month ^YH308 ^GSPC Exclusive-Nokia in talks with Bharti Airtel for multi-billion dollar 5G contract, sources say Finland's Nokia is in talks with Bharti Airtel about securing a multi-billion dollar contract to provide 5G telecom equipment for the Indian mobile operator which is expanding its network, three sources familiar with the matter said. Swedish telecom gear maker Ericsson already won a multi-billion dollar contract from Bharti Airtel, Reuters reported on Monday. India is the world's second-largest smartphone market where companies such as Airtel, Reliance's Jio and Vodafone Idea have been spending billions of dollars to upgrade their networks to 5G. Reuters ? last month ^YH308 NOKIA.HE Elon Musk battles Indian billionaires over satellite internet spectrum Elon Musk appears to have won a contest with Indian telecom tycoons Mukesh Ambani and Sunil Bharti Mittal over the way satellite spectrum should... PREMIUM Financial Times ? last month MITTAL.NS RELIANCE.NS ^YH308 Exclusive-Ericsson gets new 5G contract from India's Bharti Airtel, sources say STOCKHOLM (Reuters) -Swedish telecom gear maker Ericsson has received a new multi-billion dollar contract for selling 5G equipment from India's Bharti Airtel, two sources familiar with the matter said. This comes after Ericsson got part of a $3.6 billion contract last month for selling 5G equipment to India's Vodafone Idea. The new contracts are expected to boost Ericsson's revenue next year after seeing a big fall in contracts from India in the first half of the year. Reuters ? last month ^YH308 Bharti Airtel Ltd (BOM:532454) Q1 2025 Earnings Call Highlights: Strong Revenue Growth and ... Bharti Airtel Ltd (BOM:532454) reports robust financial performance with significant strides in 5G customer base and digital banking growth. GuruFocus.com ? last month ^YH308 India's Bharti Airtel pays $1 billion to partly clear 2016 spectrum dues Bharti Airtel has made an early payment of 84.65 billion rupees ($1.01 billion) to the Indian government, partially settling its outstanding spectrum fees from a 2016 auction, the telecom carrier announced on Monday. This is the first payment the country's second-largest telecom operator is making for the phone spectrum it acquired for $2.13 billion in 2016. Indian telecom operators have accumulated significant dues to the government over spectrum fees, following years of high-stakes auctions and competitive bidding for airwave rights. Reuters ? last month ^YH308 Airtel deploys AI to curb spam, calls for regulatory oversight on WhatsApp in India Bharti Airtel, India's second-largest telecom operator, launched a free AI-powered spam-detection system for all customers on Wednesday, aiming to curb the country's raging unwanted calls and messages while also calling for stricter regulation of WhatsApp and other messaging platforms. The company claims the solution is India's first network-based, AI-powered, spam-detection system. The feature will alert Airtel's customers in real time to suspected spam calls and text messages and will automati TechCrunch ? last month ^YH308 Indian telecom carriers tussle with government over licence fees India's Supreme Court on Thursday rejected a request by telecom companies including Vodafone Idea and Bharti Airtel to recalculate how much they owe the government in licence fees. The long-standing issue has whittled away at debt-ridden Vodafone's cash flow and threatened its survival in the Indian telecom market which is dominated by Airtel and Reliance Industries' Jio. 2019: India's top court asks telcos to pay down dues of $13 billion on adjusted gross revenue, leading to a jump in the amount the firms owed the government. Reuters ? last month IDEA.NS ^YH308 India's top court rejects telcos' plea on dues owed to govt; shares slump BENGALURU (Reuters) -India's top court on Thursday rejected a request by telecom companies to recalculate the dues they owed the government, sending shares of debt-saddled Vodafone Idea and its peers down. Analysts at ICRA estimate that Vodafone Idea and Bharti Airtel owe 1 trillion rupees ($12 billion) in past dues, including spectrum charges and licensing fees. The companies, in a last-resort petition against a similar ruling by the top court in 2021, had argued that the telecom department made errors in calculating the so-called adjusted gross revenue (AGR) dues. Reuters ? last month ^YH308 Analysis: Apple set for music, TV streaming fight in India after Airtel deal Apple's partnership with India's second-biggest telecoms firm will give the iPhone maker a sorely needed boost in a content market where it lags far behind the likes of Spotify and Walt Disney. The US technology giant, working to boost revenue globally from services including apps, payments and media, is set to offer free music and video streaming to many of Bharti Airtel's 281 million customers. The deal is likely to greatly expand the user base for Apple TV+ and Apple Music in a country where Apple has long emphasised the manufacturing side of business to diversify its supply chain beyond China. Reuters ? 2 months ago AAPL ^YH308 SPOT Airtel Payments Bank unveils enhanced security and transparency features Airtel has launched a Fraud Alarm and Transparent Banking section for its users under the banking section of the Airtel Thanks app Electronic Payments ? 2 months ago ^YH308 Apple eyes bigger slice of India's streaming, music market with?Airtel?deal BENGALURU (Reuters) -Apple is tying up with India's Bharti Airtel to offer the telecom firm's premium customers its music and video streaming services for free, giving the U.S. giant access to thousands of consumers in the world's most populous nation. With mostly English-language content, Apple TV+ is a small player in India's $28 billion media and entertainment market, where its rivals include Netflix, Amazon Prime Video, Disney+ Hotstar and billionaire Mukesh Ambani's JioCinema. The move comes as competition tightens in India and an $8.5-billion merger of the Indian media assets of Reliance and Walt Disney - which have a streaming service each - faces close scrutiny from antitrust regulators. Reuters ? 2 months ago ^YH308 India's Vodafone Idea reports lower-than-expected Q1 loss on reduced expenses Indian telecom operator Vodafone Idea reported a smaller-than-expected first-quarter loss on Monday, helped by a fall in expenses. Vodafone Idea's revenue slipped 1.4% to 105.08 billion rupees, below analysts' expectation of 105.92 billion rupees. The company, formed by a merger between the Indian arm of UK's Vodafone Group and Aditya Birla Group's Idea Cellular in 2018, has posted a loss in every quarter as it lost ground to larger rivals Bharti Airtel and Reliance Jio. Reuters ? 3 months ago IDEA.NS ^YH308 India's Bharti Airtel beats Q1 profit estimates BENGALURU (Reuters) -India's Bharti Airtel reported first-quarter profit above expectations on Monday as more users paid for faster and higher margin 4G and 5G services. Consolidated net profit for the first quarter rose more than two fold to 41.60 billion rupees ($495 million), beating analysts' average estimate of 38.69 billion rupees, per LSEG data. The country's number two telecoms operator by subscribers offers premium internet and bundle plans to its users and has been one of the biggest beneficiaries of growing adoption of mobile internet in the country, thus helping its average revenue per user (ARPU). Reuters ? 3 months ago ^YH308 Nokia (NOK) Successfully Tests 5G NSA Cloud RAN Trial in India Nokia (NOK) completes its first 5G non-standalone (NSA) Cloud RAN trial in India. Zacks ? 3 months ago NOKIA.HE MSI ^YH308 India's Bharti Airtel buys airwaves worth $820 million in downbeat spectrum auction BENGALURU/NEW DELHI (Reuters) -India's Bharti Airtel has spent 68.57 billion rupees ($820.80 million), the most among its peers, to acquire telecom spectrum at a government auction that ended on Wednesday, although their combined bids were well short of the amount on offer. Overall, telecom companies bid for spectrum worth 113.40 billion rupees to acquire 141 megahertz (MHz) of airwaves, much lower than the 962.38 billion rupees worth of spectrum on offer, as was expected since firms were mainly looking to renew or shore up their holdings. Bharti Airtel, the no.2 telecom operator by subscribers in the world's second-largest smartphone market, said it bought 97 MHz spectrum that was expiring this year and acquired additional spectrum to boost its mid-band holding, commonly used for 5G connectivity. Reuters ? 4 months ago ^YH308 Performance Overview Trailing total returns as of 11/14/2024, which may include dividends or other distributions. Benchmark is S&P BSE SENSEX Return BHARTIARTL.BO S&P BSE SENSEX YTD +50.96% +7.39% 1-Year +66.74% +19.48% 3-Year +111.67% +27.84%
