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Spectrum auction: Telcos place bids worth Rs 77,815 cr; Jio biggest buyer

About one-third of the spectrum being auctioned is in the 700 MHz band, which was completely unsold during the 2016 auctions

Airtel buys Rs 18,699-cr radiowaves; Voda acquires spectrum in 5 circles

The auction, which put on offer a total of 2308.80 MHz of spectrum worth Rs 4 lakh crore in seven bands, concluded on Tuesday, just a day after it commenced

Top headlines: Airtel acquires Rs 18k-cr spectrum; Feb exports dip 0.25%

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Airtel acquires airwaves worth Rs 18,699 cr in latest spectrum auction

90 million additional customers to be covered through the spectrum bought in latest auction, says the telco

Spectrum auction: Telcos place bids worth Rs 77,000 crore on Day 1

Revenue garnered from 4G auction may be much lower than reserve price set at Rs 3.92 trillion

Analysts see limited impact of JioPhone 2021 on Bharti Airtel, Voda Idea

Those at Jefferies believe RJio's primary focus is still on gaining subscribers, which dampens expectations of tariff hikes going ahead

Airtel to seek shareholders' nod to issue 3.64 cr shares to LMIL

This is to execute its deal for buying additional 20 per cent stake in its DTH arm Bharti Telemedia

Bharti Airtel raises $1.25 billion through various debt instruments

The company said the order book was oversubscribed 3x on final pricing, with the peak order book of $5 billion at the time for final price guidance

Bharti Airtel raises $1.25 bn through issue of dual tranche $ bond offering

Airtel has priced $750 million of senior 10.25-year bonds at a yield after adding 187.5 basis points (bps) over the US Treasury, for an implied coupon of 3.25 per cent

Airtel enters ad tech industry with Airtel Ads; says will not spam

This will enable brands to pitch consent-based and privacy-safe campaigns to over 320 million of its customers, the firm said

Govt eyes Rs 6,200 crore in AGR dues from Airtel, Voda Idea by March 31

DoT says 10% of the outstanding on day of SC verdict last year has to be paid by Airtel, Vi

Bharti Airtel, US chipmaker Qualcomm team up for 5G push in India

Telecom operator Bharti Airtel and US chipmaker Qualcomm on Tuesday announced collaboration for accelerating 5G in India. Airtel recently became India's first telco to demonstrate 5G over a live commercial network in Hyderabad city, underlining the company's technology capabilities. "Through Airtel's network vendors and device partners, Airtel will utilize the Qualcomm 5G RAN Platforms to roll-out virtualized and Open RAN-based 5G networks. Airtel, as a board member of the O-RAN Alliance, is committed to driving the success of O-RAN and is working with Qualcomm Technologies to explore and implement the O-RAN approach for India," according to a company statement. The flexible and scalable architecture of O-RAN will enable new opportunities for small and medium-sized businesses to become viable players in the deployment of 5G networks, it added. Open RAN or open radio access network architecture is an industry terminology for interoperability and standardisation of radio access netwo

Top headlines: RIL to spin off O2C biz; Airtel, Qualcomm tie up in 5G boost

Former Trai chief Rahul Khullar passed away Tuesday morning, Amazon India has partnered with Mahindra Electric to add more electric vehicles to its fleet, and other top news of the day

Airtel partners with Qualcomm for virtualised, Open RAN-based 5G networks

Airtel is also looking to collaborate with Qualcomm for 5G Fixed Wireless Access (FWA) to deliver broadband connectivity at Gigabit speeds to homes and businesses

S&P assigns BBB-minus to Bharti Airtel's proposed senior unsecured notes

S & P Global Ratings on Tuesday assigned BBB negative long-term issue rating to senior unsecured notes that Bharti Airtel Ltd proposes to issue.At the same time, it assigned BB long-term issue rating to proposed subordinated perpetual securities (PERPS) issued by Network i2i Ltd and guaranteed by Bharti Airtel.Bharti Airtel will use the proceeds for capital expenditure, repayment of existing debt or any other purpose as allowed by regulations.The proposed PERPS are similar to the existing PERPS, ranking senior only to Bharti Airtel's equity. They will have five-year resettable coupons starting from 5.25 years with step-ups of 25 basis points after the initial term of 10.25 years and a further 75 basis points after 25.25 years."Hence, we consider the PERPS to have an effective maturity of 25.25 years," said S & P."Consequently, we assess the proposed PERPS as having intermediate equity content up to the first reset date at 5.25 years."This is because the remaining period until .

Turnaround stories: These 25 firms swung to profit in the December quarter

Stocks of 18 of these 25 firms managed to outperform the S&P BSE Sensex on a year-to-date (YTD) basis

Stocks to watch: RIL, Bharat Forge, Vedanta, Airtel, HDFC Bank, Hindalco

RIL, in a late night filing, said that it has begun the process of carving out the O2C business into an independent subsidiary

Airtel, L&T and TCS to see huge passive inflows as global indices rejig

Apollo Hospitals, Honeywell Automation and Adani Total Gas may see buying due to their entry in FTSE All world index; MSCI rebalancing expected to take place Friday, could spur inflows of over $250 mn

Airtel to decide on foreign currency bonds post meet with investors

The firm said it will meet global fixed income investors on or after February 23

Stocks to watch: Bharti Airtel, IDFC First Bank, NMDC, Ambuja Cements, DLF

NMDC announced resuming mining operations at its Donimalai iron ore mine in Karnataka