Sunil Mittal: News
27 Oct 2023
Bharti AirtelOneWeb's satellite communication service to connect India from next month
OneWeb satellite communication service is ready to connect all regions of India starting next month, Sunil Mittal, Chairman of Bharti Airtel, announced on Friday.
25 Jan 2021
IndiaIndia's richest 100 earned Rs. 13 lakh crore since March-2020
India's top 100 billionaires saw their wealth increase by Rs. 13 lakh crore since March last year even as the COVID-19 pandemic led to severe job losses, Oxfam said in its latest report.
06 May 2020
Mukesh AmbaniCoronavirus wiped nearly a quarter of Indian billionaires' wealth: Forbes
The outbreak of COVID-19, which has claimed over 2.5 lakh lives and put a third of the world's population under lockdown, has wrecked economies completely.
10 Mar 2018
IndiaRBI fines Airtel bank Rs. 5 crore for violating eKYC-norms
India's apex bank, The Reserve Bank of India (RBI) slapped a penalty of Rs. 5 crore on Sunil Mittal owned-Airtel Payments Bank Limited for violating eKYC norms.
05 Feb 2018
Bharti AirtelSingtel invests Rs. 2,650cr in Airtel, lifting stake to 48.9%
India's largest telecom operator Airtel has announced that one of Singapore's biggest telecom operators, Singtel (Singapore Telecommunications), will be investing Rs. 2,649 crore in Bharti Telecom Limited, increasing its total stake to 48.9% in the company.
23 Nov 2017
IndiaBharti family pledges Rs. 7,000cr to university for free education
One of India's richest families, the Bharti family, has pledged 10% of their wealth, Rs. 7,000cr, to philanthropy.
23 Jun 2017
Bharti AirtelTelecom sector will perish if tariff war continues, say firms
The writing is on the wall; the tariff war started by Mukesh Ambani-backed Reliance Jio, if left unchecked would leave behind only one or two non-state providers at the very end, according to Bharti Airtel chairman Sunil Mittal.
30 Apr 2017
Bharti AirtelH-1B visas: Sunil Mittal weighs banning big US tech companies
While answering a question on how he would react if Bharti Airtel was prevented from operating in certain geographical locations, telecom kingpin Sunil Bharti Mittal raised the question of whether India should prevent Facebook and Google from operating in the country.
02 Mar 2017
Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (TRAI)Telecom spectrum auction proposed in July-December
The government is contemplating a fresh round of spectrum auction between July - December 2017.