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Airtel launches African wholesale, enterprise network
2013-09-30 14:27:00| Telecompaper Headlines
(Telecompaper) Airtel announced the launch of its Africa Connect network, aimed at enhancing Africa's connectivity with the rest of the world and adding to the data carriage capacity on the continent. Africa Connect is an integrated fibre and satellite network with 42 Points of Presence (PoP) across 17 African countries. The network will offer a variety of transmission and IP services, including submarine capacity, global leased circuits, Ethernet and backhaul, global and regional IP transit, managed internet, bandwidth on demand and a suite of satellite and managed services for enterprises and carriers in the region. The network connects to international cables including Seacom, Eassy, Teams, WACS, Globalcom1, SEAMEWE4, IMEWE and EIG in East, West and North Africa. This allows enterprise and carriers customers' seamless connectivity to the key global business hubs via multiple routes. Apart from the fully integrated managed services, the 42 PoPs will offer customized MPLS infrastructure to enterprise customers across the 17 countries in which Airtel already operates. The new network's reach is enhanced using multiple Network to Network Interconnects (NNIs) with more than 25 local network partners. The entire network interconnects with Bharti Airtel's landing station in Mumbai, allowing access to the company's terrestrial express connectivity into the SAARC countries and infrastructure across the Pacific to the US.
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Boon for Bharti Airtel, Vodafone as Trai recommends sharp cut in spectrum auction price
2013-09-09 18:24:59| Telecom - Topix.net
The govt is under pressure to lower auction reserve prices of mobile phone airwaves, after most carriers stayed away from bidding in the last two auctions.
Airtel names former MTN exec to head Africa operations
2013-08-28 15:49:00| Telecompaper Headlines
(Telecompaper) Bharti Airtel has announced Christian de Faria, who worked as MTN's chief commercial officer until early this year, as its new CEO in Africa. Manoj Kohli, MD and CEO (International), in charge of Airtel's operations in Africa, Bangladesh and Sri Lanka, will relocate to India effective 01 January 2014. Kohli, who is currently based at Airtel's Africa headquarters in Nairobi, has led the company's foray into Africa over the past three years. Faria will join Airtel Africa 16 September and be based in Nairobi. He will report to Kohli, who remains CEO International. Kohli will also work on strategic issues such as in-market consolidation, tower companies, global partnerships, sourcing from key partners and regulatory aspects. From mid-September, Faria will take charge of Anglophone operations in Africa and start a review of Airtel Africa HQ functions and the Francophone and Nigeria regions. He will assume overall responsibility as CEO of Airtel Africa from 01 January 2014. Faria brings with him over 30 years of industry experience, working for companies such as MTN, Telekom Malaysia, Discvision, Deutsche Telekom and Grundig.
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Airtel to sell Sri Lankan operations to Etisalat - report
2013-08-23 12:28:00| Telecompaper Headlines
(Telecompaper) Indian mobile operator Bharti Airtel is in advanced discussions to sell off its Sri Lankan operations to UAE operator Etisalat, reports The Economic Times citing two people aware of the development. According to one source, Standard Chartered Bank is advising Airtel in the transaction. Bharti Airtel Lanka, which has a subscriber base of 1.7 million, has been valued at USD 110-130 million. The company's subscribers have not grown in the past four quarters, and despite investing over USD 300 million since 2007, the unit continues to make losses. Airtel declined to comment.
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SingTel ups stake in Bharti Airtel
2013-08-16 02:53:00| Telecompaper Headlines
(Telecompaper) Singapore Telecommunications (SingTel) will buy a 3.62 percent stake in Bharti Telecom from MacRitchie Investments to increase its stake in the linked company Bharti Airtel. Following the SGD 383.58 million transaction, SingTel's stake in Bharti Telecom will grow to 39.78 percent from the current 36.16 percent and its effective interest in Bharti Airtel will increase from 30.76 percent to 32.34 percent. SingTel expects the deal to close on 28 August.
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