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Airtel Payments Bank is an Indian payments bank with its headquarters in New Delhi. [3] The company is a subsidiary of Bharti Airtel . [ 4 ] On 5 January 2022, it was granted the scheduled bank status by the Reserve Bank of India under the second schedule of RBI Act, 1934 .
The statements of Chua Sock Koong, Group CEO of Singtel and also a shareholder (32.15%) of Bharti Airtel share similar statements about the Anti-Net Neutrality position. In December 2014, Airtel changed its service terms for 2G and 3G data packs so that VoIP data was excluded from the set amount of free data.
Airtel launched 4G services on mobile from February 2014. The first city to get the service was Bangalore. [24] [25] Airtel has started their 4G services in Karnal and Yamunanagar in Haryana on 16 June 2015. [26] Airtel 4G trials has been started in Delhi from 18 June 2015. [27] Airtel had 95,173,000 4G subscribers as of June 2019. [28]
Paytm Payments Bank and Airtel Payments Bank together command over 88% of the deposits in payment banks in India in 2018. According to the Reserve Bank of India 's report on ‘Trend and progress of Banking in India 2017-2018', the payment banks reported losses in the financial year 2017-2018, after a weak performance in the FY 2016-17.
Bharti Telecom (BTL), is a holding company of Bharti Airtel with Bharti Enterprises and SingTel owning 50.56 percent and 49.44 percent, respectively, in BTL, which in turn owns 35.80 percent of Bharti Airtel. [7] Bharti Airtel is the third largest mobile operator in the world, in subscriber base, and has a presence across 18 countries. [8]
In 2010, Bharti Airtel acquired Zain Africa's business for $10.7 billion. [6] [7] The acquisition deal covered Zain operations in 15 countries including Kenya but excluding Sudan and Morocco. The deal increased Bharti Airtel's overall customer base to 180 million subscribers, including the 131 million subscribers it had in India in April 2010. [6]
Airtel Nigeria is the second-largest telecommunications company in Nigeria by number of customers, behind MTN Nigeria. It has an estimated 46.8 million subscribers representing 26.8% market share and in terms of mobile internet users, Airtel Nigeria has the second-largest users with 32.4 million subscribers in July 2019.
Bharti Infratel was the first Indian company to start a tower infrastructure sharing business. It was India's largest consolidated tower infrastructure company, directly owning 95,372 towers as on 31 March 2020. [1] Bharti Infratel was merged with Indus Towers on 19 November 2020. Bharti Airtel now holds a 36.73% stake in Indus Towers. [5]