Airtel chairman: We may spend around $1 billion on rollout in Myanmar
NAY PYI TAW: Bharti Group chairman Sunil Bharti Mittal has been in the middle of controversies and his flagship company, Bharti Airtel, has reported three straight years of lower profit. The telecom...
View ArticleAirtel plans to spend $1 billion in Myanmar
NAY PYI TAW: Bharti Group chairman Sunil Bharti Mittal has been in the middle of controversies and his flagship company, Bharti Airtel, has reported three straight years of lower profit. The telecom...
View ArticleMyanmar allows access to Indian airlines
Indian airlines can now operate flights to Myanmar as the country has granted traffic rights to India-based carriers paving the way for air connectivity between the nations. “Yes, we (Indian airlines)...
View ArticleBoom time in Burma
When an Indian executive first came to Myanmar in 1995 he paid $25 a night for a room in a prominent hotel. Today, the same room costs $250 prompting his company, which bagged a gas block here, to set...
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3:30 AM Audio for this story from Morning Edition will be available at approximately 9:00 a.m. ET. Transcript For years, there were only three countries in the world that didn't officially sell...
View ArticleWe may spend $1bn on Myanmar rollout: Sunil Bharti Mittal
NAY PYI TAW: Bharti Group chairman Sunil Bharti Mittal has been in the middle of controversies and his flagship company, Bharti Airtel, has reported three straight years of lower profit. The telecom...
View ArticleBharti Airtel’s brand director Bharat Bambawale quits
NEW DELHI: Bharti Airtel's brand director Bharat Bambawale, credited with the company's ongoing 'Jo Mera Hain Wo Tera Hain' campaign, has quit, joining a growing list of top-level executives who have...
View ArticleBharti Airtel rejigs operations in India, splits business into 8 segments
NEW DELHI: In a major organisational restructuring, telecom giant Bharti Airtel split its business into eight segments with a view to build a more connected organisation. The company, which had last...
View ArticleSunil Mittal's full-year pay dips 22% to Rs 21.3 crore
Telecom major Bharti Airtel's Chairman and Managing Director Sunil Mittal saw his full-year pay package dip to nearly Rs 21.3 crore in 2011-12. NEW DELHI: Telecom major Bharti Airtel's Chairman and...
View ArticleBharti Airtel restructures board of directors
Tweet New Delhi, Sep 27 (IANS) Telecom service provider Bharti Airtel Thursday announced the restructuring of its board of directors and that of its subsidiary Bharti Infratel which is expected to go...
View ArticleSunil Mittal's full-year pay slashed 22% to Rs 21.3 cr
SHARE AND DISCUSS Tweet Telecom major Bharti Airtel's chairman and managing director Sunil Mittal saw his full-year pay package dip to nearly Rs 21.3 crore in 2011-12. NEW DELHI: Telecom major Bharti...
View ArticleSunil Mittal's salary dips 22% to Rs 21.3 cr
SHARE AND DISCUSS Tweet Telecom major Bharti Airtel's chairman and managing director Sunil Mittal saw his full-year pay package dip to nearly Rs 21.3 crore in 2011-12. NEW DELHI: Telecom major Bharti...
View ArticleIndia seeks wider footprint in 'untapped' Burma
"India is the world's largest democracy. So then why doesn't it support Aung San Suu Kyi?" The indignant words were delivered by a Burmese taxi driver but could well have represented the feelings of...
View ArticleIndia courts Myanmar in historic visit
Naypyidaw: India’s prime minister begins a historic visit to Myanmar on Sunday, stepping up efforts to woo the resource-rich nation and seizing the chance to counter the influence of regional rival...
View ArticleGreed will lead to bursting of Myanmars bubble
IT was wonderful to see Aung San Suu Kyi and Myanmar President Thein Sein sitting down with Barack Obama and other world leaders. It is not so wonderful to see the greed thats starting to form in...
View ArticleBharti Airtel Q1 net profit down 37 percent
Tweet New Delhi, Aug 8 (IANS) Bharti Airtel Wednesday posted a 37 percent decline in net profit at Rs.762 crore for the quarter ended June 30 against Rs.1,215 crore during the like period of the...
View Article2G allocation case: Bharti Airtel, Essar to challenge court order
NEW DELHI: With a local court summoning billionaires Sunil Mittal and Ravi Ruia in 2G spectrum allocation case, Bharti Airtel today charged CBI with attempting to tarnish its reputation while Essar...
View ArticleIndia's top court postpones Bharti boss hearing
NEW DELHI: India’s highest court has postponed until further notice a hearing for telecom tycoon Sunil Bharti Mittal over corruption allegations involving the allotment of telecom airwaves. Mittal,...
View Article2G case: CBI court summons Sunil Mittal, others
In a significant development, the CBI Special Court has summoned top telecom executives including Sunil Mittal, Chairman of Bharti Airtel, Ravi Ruia of Essar Group, and Asim Ghosh, former Managing...
View Article2G allocation case: Bharti, Essar to challenge court order
With a local court summoning billionaires Sunil Mittal and Ravi Ruia in 2G spectrum allocation case, Bharti Airtel today charged CBI with attempting to tarnish its reputation while Essar Group said it...
View ArticleCan India Push Burma on the Road to Liberty?
Last month, Prime Minister Manmohan Singh became the first Indian head of state in 25 years to make a visit to Myanmar (formerly Burma), the eastern neighbor that has for 50 years been ruled by a...
View ArticleBharti Airtel plunges nearly 5%; m-cap down by Rs 5,544 cr
Shares of Bharti Airtel today came under intense selling pressure and ended nearly 5 per cent lower after a Delhi court summoned as accused its Chairman Sunil Bharti Mittal in additional spectrum...
View ArticlePM Manmohan Singh on a historic visit to Myanmar to boost trade
New Delhi: Prime Minister Manmohan Singh left for Myanmar on Sunday in a historic visit by an Indian prime minister that comes after a gap of 25 years. The PM said before his departure that India and...
View ArticleSanjay Kapoor to step down as Bharti Airtel CEO
India's largest telecom service provider Bharti Airtel Tuesday said its India and South Asia chief executive officer Sanjay Kapoor will step down March 1. Gopal Vittal, who is currently group...
View ArticleBharti Airtel's India, South Asia CEO Kapoor to step down
Tweet New Delhi, Jan 15 (IANS) India's largest telecom service provider Bharti Airtel Tuesday said its India and South Asia chief executive officer Sanjay Kapoor will step down March 1. Gopal Vittal,...
View Article4G: All that you want to know
SHARE AND DISCUSSTweet4G is expected to be five times quicker than 3G services NEW DELHI: Bharti Airtel on Tuesday become the first company in India to offer high-speed Internet services using...
View ArticleAirtel bids for licence in Myanmar
NEW DELHI: Bharti Airtel has bid for telecom licence in Myanmar as India's biggest private telecom company looks to expand its overseas operations. A host of other global players including Norway's...
View ArticleBharti Airtel to sell 5% stake Qatar Foundation
NEW DELHI: Bharti Airtel will sell a 5% stake to Doha-based Qatar Foundation Endowment for Rs 6,796 crore ($1.26 billion) to bolster finances weighed down by Rs 63,689 crore ($11.7 billion) of debt....
View ArticleBharti Airtel: Elevation of Gopal Vittal set to force a reshuffling of the...
NEW DELHI: The elevation of GopalVittal as chief executive of BhartiAirtel is set to force a reshuffling of the top deck at the country's largest telecom company, with two senior officials — both...
View ArticleClinton visit opens Burma Road to investors
(Repeats item issued late Wednesday) YANGON, Dec 7 (Reuters) - Just hours after U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton left Myanmar last week, property prices began to soar. In central Yangon, an...
View ArticleIndian business leaders view Myanmar as a growing opportunity for trade
Tweet Nay Pyi Taw (Myanmar), May 29 (ANI): Indian business leaders, including the chairman of telecom service provider Bharti Airtel, Sunil Bharti Mittal, and steel industrialist and lawmaker, Naveen...
View ArticleMyanmar Phone Contest Pits Soros Against SingTel: Southeast Asia
Myanmar’s contest for two telecommunications licenses attracted bidders from around the globe seeking a foothold in one of the last remaining untapped markets, where only one in 10 people has a mobile...
View ArticleNo plans to buy Vodafone stakes, Loop: Bharti Airtel
Tweet New Delhi, Sep 5 (IANS) Bharti Airtel has no plans to buy back 4.4 percent Vodafone stake in the company, chairman Sunil Mittal said Thursday. "We have no plans to buy back 4.4 percent Vodafone...
View ArticleBrand head Bharat Bambawale latest to exit Bharti Airtel
NEW DELHI: Bharti Airtel's brand director Bharat Bambawale, credited with the company's ongoing 'Jo Mera Hain Wo Tera Hain' campaign, has quit, joining a growing list of top-level executives who have...
View ArticleBharti Airtel’s brand director Bharat Bambawale resigns
NEW DELHI: Bharti Airtel's brand director Bharat Bambawale, credited with the company's ongoing 'Jo Mera Hain Wo Tera Hain' campaign, has quit, joining a growing list of top-level executives who have...
View ArticleSupreme Court sends Bharti Airtel's 3G pact plea back to TDSAT
The Supreme Court on Monday sent back to the sectoral tribunal Sunil Bharti Mittal-led Bharti Airtel's petition challenging a Delhi high court order directing the telecom major to stop offering 3G...
View ArticleIncheon to Build New Airport at Yangon: Southeast Asia
Dexter Tan gets a weekly reminder of the challenges Myanmar faces in catching up with the world when he lands at Yangon’s international airport. “The airport doesn’t seem to be very business focused,”...
View ArticleMyanmar telecom deal with Qatar firm sparks ire
YANGON, Myanmar -- Religious tensions engulfing Myanmar spread Friday to the world of big business: Monks and others in the Buddhist-dominated country demanded to know why a lucrative license for a...
View ArticleMyanmar: Tale of two cities
Paper Edition | Page: 4 Shwedagon pagoda Other than the massive 15-lane thoroughfare that could double as an airstrip, another spectacular attraction in Nay Pyi Taw, the new capital of Myanmar, is the...
View ArticleBharti Airtel net profit dips 29 percent in Q2
Tweet New Delhi, Oct 30 (IANS) Telecom service provider Bharti Airtel's consolidated net profit for the second quarter (June-September) declined by 29 percent to Rs.512 crore compared to Rs.721 crore...
View ArticleBharti Airtel rejigs Indian ops, splits biz into 8 segments
NEW DELHI: In a major organisational restructuring, telecom giant Bharti Airtel today split its business into eight segments with a view to build a more connected organisation. The company, which had...
View ArticleBrokerages retain ‘buy’ on Bharti Airtel despite 2G trial fallout
NEW DELHI: Analysts at top brokerage firms remains bullish on BhartiAirtel despite a special court summoning Sunil Mittal in connection with alleged irregularities in allocation of excess spectrum in...
View Article'Airtel to bring low-tariff model to Myanmar'
MYANMAR: Telecom major Airtel said it plans to bring its low-tariff, high volume business model to Mynamar, where the company has submitted final bid for a telecom licence. "We made a very serious bid...
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