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Telecom needs 'long overdue' support for 3+1 structure: Sunil Mittal

Airtel to scale up investments in data centres, Cloud services, cyber security

Industry needs long overdue support to maintain 3+1 structure: Sunil Mittal

Bharti Airtel Chairman Sunil Mittal said the sector remains a viable place for continued investments

Telecom needs 'long overdue support' to keep 3+1 structure: Sunil Mittal

Bharti Airtel Chairman Sunil Mittal has expressed hope that the government and regulators will step in to ensure that the sector remains a viable place for continued investments

Airtel raises minimum prepaid plan to Rs 79, offers more usage time

Company is the first to raise tariffs and its rivals are likely to follow suit, say experts.

Rivals turn the heat on Sunil Mittal's stand on satellite spectrum

Mittal had said, with Airtel setting up only two ground stations for uplinking in rural areas, the requirement for spectrum was minimal and different from terrestrial mobile services

Won't hesitate to raise tariffs but can't be done unilaterally: Mittal

The latest tariff hike by the three operators happened in December 2019.

'Telecom industry in trouble' is an understatement: Airtel's Sunil Mittal

Mittal acknowledged that telecom tariffs need to go up and that Airtel would 'not hesitate' in this regard, but was quick to add that it cannot be done 'unilaterally'

Bharti Group to invest $500 million to be OneWeb's largest shareholder

This will make Bharti Group the largest shareholder in the satellite communications company

Bharti to invest Rs 3,700 cr into OneWeb; to become largest shareholder

The transaction is expected to be completed in the second half of 2021

Just 2 players in telecom mkt will be tragic: Bharti Airtel's Sunil Mittal

According to DoT estimates, Vodafone Idea owes Rs 58,400 crore as AGR dues

CSS Corp to appoint Sunil Mittal as its Chief Executive Officer

CSS Corp, a global customer experience and technology consulting services provider, today announced that its board has unanimously chosen Sunil Mittal as the organization's Chief Executive Officer

Reliance Jio among the most competitive telcos, says Sunil Bharti Mittal

We have increased our market share, brand loyalty and index, and we're getting more customers than the competition in the last 8-9 months, says Mittal

Telecom down to 3 pvt firms, 1 becoming a question mark: Sunil Mittal

Airtel has weathered three-four big crises, including disruptions caused by the 2016 launch of Jio: Airtel

Space wars: Mittal, Musk bet on satellite broadband as telecom's new star

Mittal is planning to invest $2 billion on a once bankrupt low earth orbit constellation satellite company OneWeb to put up more satellites

India needs affordable 5G and the steep spectrum reserve price is a barrier

5G technology can effectively empower millions of Indians once the price becomes affordable

India to soon benefit from investments world has made on 5G: Sunil Mittal

India is poised to derive full benefit of global investments on 5G standards in the coming two-three years, as equipment prices come down and devices become available, Sunil Mittal said

Mittal Jr ups his reputation as VC investor as firm invests $500 mn so far

Mittal Junior will not divulge how much the company has invested so far, but he admits that the investments range from $10 million, which is the minimum threshold, to $50 million

Top headlines: India may get 1st vaccine by Feb, FMCGs expand rural reach

India is likely to issue an emergency use authorisation to at least one Covid vaccine by the end of January and health workers will be the first to be inoculated. More headlines in our evening roundup

Tariff hike needed as current rates 'unsustainable', says Airtel's Mittal

Where tariffs are concerned, the company has already taken a clear stance on the issue, he said adding that Airtel is of the firm view that tariffs need go up.

UK-based OneWeb out of bankruptcy, Sunil Mittal appointed chairman

After the completion of the deal in the UK, Mittal told Business Standard in a telephonic conversation that this would be like having a telecom network in space, oceans, mountains and forest