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Bharti Terms For Loan

The six-year offshore facility has four tranches and carries a blended average life of 4.75 years

16 March 2010

Aircel To Sell INQ Mobiles In India

Aircel will sell the two latest handset models of British phone maker INQ Mobile as they try to tap surging demand for mobile social networking in the fastest growing major mobile market

13 March 2010

Special Audit Gives Clean Chit To Bharti

Special audit was ordered by the government on leading teleocm operators, including RCOM, TTSL, Idea Cellular and Vodafone Essar

12 March 2010

SingTel May Help Bharti-Zain Deal Funding

Bharti's bid is in line with SingTel's ambitions, which is sitting on over $1 bn in cash

6 March 2010

BSNL Scraps $10-Bn GSM Tender

The short-listed firms were Sweden's Ericsson, Chinese Huawei and HCL Infosystems

4 March 2010

SE Asia Telcos Shine, Tap Mobile Data For Growth

Mobile broadband pushes growth, delivered by laptop, netbooks and handsets especially smartphones

27 February 2010

Tip Of The Iceberg

Lyondell-Basell and Zain could be the first in a series of big M&As

25 February 2010

Govt To Auction 3-4 3G Slots Each Across Telecom Zones

The government will auction three slots each of third-generation wireless spectrum in most of its telecoms zones

24 February 2010

American Tower To Buy Essar Towers

The US telecom tower firm is paying an enterprise value of $450 million

24 February 2010

Bharti, SBI In Talks Over Zain Deal Funding

Bharti is looking at a mix of dollar and rupee funding to finance the deal

24 February 2010

3G Auctions To Start From April 9

Base price of Rs 35 billion ($760 million) fixed for all-India spectrum

23 February 2010

Handset Market Rebounding In 2010

The cellphone market will rebound more strongly than expected this year as improving economies boost spending on new gadgets and handset vendors push cheap smartphones

22 February 2010

3G Auction Notice In A Week: Raja

After the notice, it would take another 40-45 days for the auction to be conducted

21 February 2010

Bharti Lines Up $9 Bn Loans For Zain Africa

Standard Chartered and Barclays were advising Bharti on the deal and also on the funding

20 February 2010

The Big Buy

The Zain deal could make or break Bharti Airtel’s attempt to enter the African market

20 February 2010

Bharti Expects Good Terms For Funding Zain Deal

Sunil Mittal said in a TV interiew that a clear picture will emerge by the end of next week


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India

Rising Inflation
The general inflation has already touched 9.89 per cent in February
>> PSUs Serving No Purpose

Banking

No Plans For Takeover: SBI
There is no proposal for government-run State Bank of India to take over any other state bank
>> Lehman To Create Co

Case Studies

In Time Of Debt
Never spend your money before you have it — Thomas Jefferson
>> Analysis: A. V. K. Mohan

BW Opinion

A Disastrous Retreat
BSNL has been unlucky in its expansion plans; its bad luck is that it is owned by the government and must buy everything on tender
>> Sprouts Of Wisdom

Lifestyle

Lap Of Luxury
A pick of the best luxury resorts in India that offer unique and exceptional stays
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