YAHOO FINANCE CHARTBOOK 44 charts that explain markets and the economy right now BSE - Delayed Quote • INR Bharti Airtel Limited (BHARTIARTL.BO) Follow Compare 1,623.40 -17.05 (-1.04%) At close: 3:29:45 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 Stocks to watch next week: Amazon, Palantir, Disney, Novo Nordisk and AstraZeneca Earnings preview of key companies reporting next week and what to look out for. India's Bharti Airtel to offer Bajaj Finance's loan products Indian telecom major Bharti Airtel will be offering non-banking lender Bajaj Finance's financial products in the country, the companies said on Monday. Airtel will initially offer Bajaj Finance's products through its application, and later via its physical stores, they said in a joint statement. The partnership will enable Bajaj Finance, the country's largest private-sector non-banking financial company, to tap Airtel's 375 million customers. India's Bharti Airtel signs 'multi-billion' dollar 4G, 5G equipment deal with Ericsson Under the deal, which Reuters reported in October, Bharti Airtel will buy and deploy equipment from Ericsson likely in 2025. Demand from India's 5G market started to skyrocket in 2023, as Bharti Airtel and Jio, the telecom unit of Reliance Industries, started to scale up 5G services. NOK Wins Multi-Billion 5G Deal Extension From Airtel: Stock to Gain? Nokia secures a multi-billion 5G deal extension from Bharti Airtel to strengthen the latter's core network in India. Nokia Wins Multi-Billion Dollar Deal To Power Airtel's 4G And 5G Expansion In India Nokia Corporation (NYSE:NOK) shares are trading higher premarket on Wednesday. The company secured a multi-year, multi-billion USD contract extension with Bharti Airtel to deploy advanced 4G and 5G equipment across key regions in India. The deal includes Nokia’s 5G AirScale portfolio with ReefShark-powered Massive MIMO radios for enhanced network capacity and coverage, along with modernizing Airtel’s 4G infrastructure to support 5G. Additionally, Airtel will utilize Nokia’s AI-driven MantaRay Ne Nokia wins 'multi-billion' dollar deal in India Finnish telecom equipment supplier Nokia on Wednesday said it had won a "multi-billion" dollar deal with India's Bharti Airtel for delivery of 4G and 5G equipment. Sources familiar with the talks told Reuters last month Nokia and Bharti were nearing a deal worth several billion dollars to expand Bharti's network in India. Nokia's Swedish rival Ericsson had already won a deal of similar size with Bharti earlier in October. 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. 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. India's Bharti Airtel posts bigger Q2 profit, boosted by higher tariffs India's No.2 wireless carrier's consolidated net profit jumped 168% to 35.93 billion rupees ($427.49 million) in the July-September quarter. Bharti Airtel had a one-time loss of 8.54 billion rupees during the quarter resulting from a unit's foreign exchange loss due to currency devaluation. The company's average revenue per user (ARPU), a key performance metric for telecom firms, where Airtel leads its rivals by a wide margin, rose 10% sequentially to 233 rupees. 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 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. 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... 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. 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. 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. 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 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. 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. 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. 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 Performance Overview Trailing total returns as of 2/1/2025, which may include dividends or other distributions. 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