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Uganda's regulator said Thursday it had approved the purchase by India's largest telecommunications company, Bharti Airtel Ltd. (532454.BY), of Warid Group's telecom operations in the country, a deal that is expected to nearly double Bharti's subscri

* Qatar makes first major investment in Indian listed firm

* Qatar makes first major investment in Indian listed firm

* Qatar makes first major investment in Indian listed firm

* Qatar makes first major investment in Indian listed firm

* Qatar makes first major investment in Indian listed firm

* Qatar makes first major investment in Indian listed firm

* Qatar makes first major investment in Indian listed firm

* Qatar makes first major investment in Indian listed firm

DUBAI, May 3 (Reuters) - Qatar plans to be an active investor in Bharti Airtel, the Indian telecoms group in which one of its investment vehicles has agreed to buy a 5 percent stake, a person close to the Qataris said on Friday.

DUBAI, May 3 (Reuters) - Qatar plans to be an active investor in Bharti Airtel, the Indian telecoms group in which one of its investment vehicles has agreed to buy a 5 percent stake, a person close to the Qataris said on Friday.

The deal values the Indian company, which is controlled by Sunil Mittal, at $25.2bn and will be used to cut net debt and finance expansion in Africa

India's largest mobile phone operator, Bharti Airtel, agrees to sell a 5% stake to Qatar Foundation Endowment as it looks to strengthen its finances.

* Deal to strengthen capital structure, fund growth plans

* Deal to strengthen capital structure, fund growth plans

* Deal to strengthen capital structure, fund growth plans

* Deal to strengthen capital structure, fund growth plans

Qatar Foundation Endowment has agreed to invest $1.26 billion for a stake of about 5% in Bharti Airtel, the Indian telecommunications company said.

NEW DELHI, May 3 (Reuters) - Bharti Airtel Ltd, India's top telecommunications carrier, said on Friday it would sell a 5 percent stake in the company to Qatar Foundation Endowment for $1.26 billion to strengthen the capital structure of the company.

NEW DELHI, May 3 (Reuters) - Bharti Airtel Ltd, India's top telecommunications carrier, said on Friday it would sell a 5 percent stake in the company to Qatar Foundation Endowment for $1.26 billion to strengthen the capital structure of the company.

NEW DELHI, May 3 (Reuters) - Bharti Airtel Ltd, India's top telecommunications carrier, said on Friday it would sell a 5 percent stake in the company to Qatar Foundation Endowment for $1.26 billion...

Indian mobile operator takes hit to quarterly and full-year net income in spite of a 12% increase in its annual revenue to Rs803bn

India's Bharti Airtel reported a 49.4% drop in its fiscal fourth-quarter net profit.Bharti Airtel's quarterly net profit declined to 5.09 billion rupees (US$94.76 million), versus 10.06 billion rupees, in the year-ago period.Its consolidated sales cl

NEW DELHI, May 2 (Reuters) - Top Indian mobile carrier Bharti Airtel Ltd's subscriber growth and usage trends along with easing competition suggest the worst may be over for the industry, even as the firm recorded its thirteenth consecutive quarter o

Bharti Airtel Ltd. (532454.BY) said its fiscal fourth-quarter net profit fell 49.4% from a year earlier hurt by continued losses at the company's African unit.

NEW DELHI, May 2 (Reuters) - India's No. 1 cellular carrier Bharti Airtel has no plan, at the moment, to sell shares in the company, Sarvjit Dhillon, chief financial officer of Bharti Enterprises, the parent company of Bharti Airtel, said.

Bharti Airtel Ltd.'s (532454.BY) fiscal fourth-quarter net profit fell 49.4% from a year earlier, hurt by continued losses at the company's African unit.

Bharti Airtel's fiscal fourth-quarter net profit fell 49.4% from a year earlier, hurt by continued losses at the company's African unit.

* Shares fall more than 3 pct after results (Adds details, chairman comments, share movement)

NEW DELHI, May 2 (Reuters) - Bharti Airtel Ltd reported a 50 percent fall in quarterly profit that capped the third straight year of declining profit at India's top telecommunications carrier.

NEW DELHI, April 30 (Reuters) - Indian telecommunications tower operator Bharti Infratel plans to talk to the telecoms unit of India's Reliance Industries Ltd to lease out towers, its Vice-Chairman Akhil Gupta said on Tuesday.

NEW DELHI, April 30 (Reuters) - Indian telecommunications tower operator Bharti Infratel plans to talk to the telecoms unit of India's Reliance Industries Ltd to lease out towers, its Vice-Chairman Akhil Gupta said on Tuesday.

India's top court has deferred a hearing on alleged irregularities in the allocation of telecom bandwidth by at least six weeks, after Bharti Airtel Ltd. (532454.BY) Chairman Sunil Mittal and Essar Group Vice Chairman Ravi Ruia filed pleas saying tha

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MUMBAI (Reuters) - Conglomerate Reliance Industries Ltd took a step closer to launching 4G services into a fiercely competitive Indian telecoms market with a deal on Tuesday to lease undersea cable capacity from Bharti Airtel.

* Reliance Jio to get dedicated fibre on Bharti's i2i submarine cable

* Reliance Jio to get dedicated fibre on Bharti's i2i submarine cable

Bharti Airtel Ltd. (532454.BY), India's largest telecommunications company, Tuesday said it agreed to buy the Warid Group's telecom operations in Uganda.

MUMBAI, April 23 (Reuters) - Bharti Airtel, the world's fourth largest mobile phone operator, said it had signed an agreement to buy rival Warid Telecom Uganda, in a move that will increase its customer base in the country by 60 percent.

Bharti Airtel has signed a pact for international data connectivity with Reliance Industries' telecom venture, the two companies said.

Bharti Airtel Ltd.(532454.BY) has signed a pact for international data connectivity with Reliance Industries Ltd.'s (500325.BY) telecom venture, the two companies said Tuesday.

April 23 (Reuters) - Reliance Industries' telecommunications arm will use Bharti Airtel's submarine cable network to provide data connectivity across Asia Pacific, the two Indian companies said on Tuesday.

April 23 (Reuters) - Reliance Industries' telecommunications arm will use Bharti Airtel's submarine cable network to provide data connectivity across Asia Pacific, the two Indian companies said on Tuesday.

NEW DELHI, April 15 (Reuters) - India's Supreme Court has asked a lower court to defer until April 22 a summons to Bharti Airtel Ltd Chairman Sunil Mittal in a case over alleged corruption in allocation of mobile airwaves, as it will continue hearing

India's top court Thursday allowed Bharti Airtel Ltd. (532454.BY) to continue providing third-generation telecom services until further orders in some regions where it doesn't have permits, but prevented it from signing up new customers.