Bharti Airtel (Airtel), one of India’s leading telecommunications service provider, announced its strategic partnership with Bridgepointe Technologies (Bridgepointe), a tech advisory firm that helps mid-market and enterprise companies bridge the gap between tech investments and business results. The Airtel-Bridgepointe partnership will enable US enterprises interested in expanding to India and Africa to leverage Airtel’s digital…
Telecom major, Bharti Airtel (Airtel), announced that it has acquired a strategic stake in Lemnisk (Immensitas Private Limited) under Airtel’s Start Up Accelerator Program. The deal is subject to all applicable statutory approvals. Lemnisk is a Bengaluru based Start Up that offers Real-Time Marketing Automation and secure Customer Data Platform (CDP) capable of orchestrating 1-to-1…
As part of its growing in-house digital engineering capabilities, Airtel is looking to set up a new technology center in Pune. This will be Airtel’s fourth digital technology hub in India and first in the Western region to support its strategy to pivot to a digital services company, especially as 5G services are on the…
Bharti Airtel (Airtel), a communications solutions provider in India, has acquired a strategic minority stake in cloud-based networking solutions provider Cnergee Technologies under the Airtel Startup Accelerator Program. Navi Mumbai based Cnergee specializes in integrated networking solutions over cloud for businesses of all sizes. Cnergee has developed a range of 5G ready software tools for…
Bharti Airtel (Airtel), India’s premier communications solutions provider, and Tech Mahindra, a leading provider of digital transformation, consulting and business re-engineering services and solutions, announced a strategic partnership to build and market innovative solutions for India’s digital economy by bringing together their core strengths. Airtel and Tech Mahindra will co-develop and market 5G use cases…
Telecom major Airtel has roped in Varun Singla as SVP & Chief Information Security Officer (CISO) of the company. He will be reporting to Pradipt Kapoor, Chief Information Officer (CIO), Airtel. In this new role, Singla will be driving next-generation cyber security initiatives and contributing to the ongoing innovation and business growth at Airtel. As…
Former Droom Technology CHRO, Preeti Jain, has joined telecom major Airtel as Vice President – Human Resources. Jain has over 20 years of rich experience working with leadership teams in diverse industries spanning IT, Telecom and Semiconductor industries, and across geographies and cultures, including USA, UK, China and South-East Asia. Prior to Droom Technology, she…
Telecom major Bharti Airtel (Airtel) announced that it has acquired a strategic stake in Aqilliz – a Blockchain as a Service Company under the Airtel Startup Accelerator Program. Singapore-based Aqilliz has developed a patented hybrid blockchain platform, Atom that integrates differential privacy and federated learning on a distributed digital ledger. This allows brands to create…
Oracle and Bharti Airtel, India’s premier communications solutions provider, have extended their partnership to support the growth of India’s digital economy by bringing a range of industry leading cloud solutions to more than 1 million enterprise customers, according to an announcement. The announcement said, “To support the increasing demand for cloud services in India, Oracle…
Tejas Networks announced that it has been selected by Bharti Airtel to enhance Airtel’s optical network capacity in key metropolitan markets. Tejas will supply, install and support its state-of-the-art TJ1600 DWDM/OTN products for extending Airtel’s optical networks towards the edge, supporting 5G backhaul, B2B services and broadband applications. The enhanced capacity will enable Airtel to…
BunkerFit, India’s free to use Health & Wellness app, has announced that it has raised an undisclosed amount from private investors. The start-up has seen participation from Airtel, Umang Bedi (Daily Hunt), Rohit Malik (ex-Red Fort Capital), Vivek Khemka (Egon Zehnder), Sudhir Singh Dungarpur (Big Four), Dinesh Anand (Grant Thornton), Iskander Lalljee, Jatin Aneja (Shardul…
Bharti Airtel, India’s premier digital communication solutions provider, said that it has acquired 355.45 MHz spectrum across Sub GHz, mid band and 2300 MHz bands for a total consideration of Rs 18,699 crores in the latest spectrum auction conducted by the Department of Telecom, Government of India. This gives Airtel the most formidable spectrum holdings…
Bharti Airtel, India’s premier digital communications provider, has successfully priced its debt fund raise of US$1.25 billion through the issuance of its first ever dual-tranche US$ bond offering spread across senior and perpetual issuance. This is the largest issuance by any Indian Investment Grade issuer since January 2019, the company said in its release. Airtel…
Bharti Airtel (Airtel), India’s premier communications solutions provider, has entered the advertising business with the launch of Airtel Ads – a powerful brand engagement solution. Airtel Ads allows brands of all sizes to curate consent based and privacy safe campaigns to one of the biggest pool of quality customers in India. Airtel has over 320…
Bharti Airtel, a digital communications Company, has said that it will acquire a Warburg Pincus affiliate’s 20% equity stake in its DTH arm Bharti Telemedia for a total consideration of ~ INR 31,260 million which will be discharged primarily via issuance of ~36.47 million equity shares of Airtel at a price of INR 600 per…