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Indian telecom major Bharti Airtel lacks green agenda in its investments in Africa, Greenpeace Tuesday stated in its briefing paper on International Green Telecom Leadership.

The total subscriber base of the company not stands at 38.79 million. Uninor is a joint venture between Norway-based Telenor and India’s Unitech Limited.

India’s leading mobile phone operator Bharti Airtel Thursday announced the pan India launch of ‘airtel money’, the country’s first of its kind mobile wallet service by a mobile operator.

The operating profitability of the mobile players like Airtel, Idea, Vodafone, Tata Teleservices and Sistema Shyam Teleservices will improve by 5% in the next two years, according to credit rating agency Crisil.

Uninor, in its response, has stated that only Private Respondents (whose licenses have been quashed by the SC judgement) and fresh applicants (well funded entities with no link to incumbent operators) should be eligible to take part in the auction of spectrum that has become available after the SC cancelled 122 2G licenses.

Bharti Airtel Monday announced the launch of India’s first online self care services for its prepaid mobile customers across the country.

Bharti Airtel reported a 22% decline in its consolidated net profit to $206.6 million in Q3 (October-December) of the FY12 due to 3G roll-out costs and higher interest costs.

The Indian consumers will have to be prepared for higher tariffs if the government goes ahead with the proposal to charge extra 2G spectrum held by telecom companies, says Bharti Airtel’s Sunil Mittal.

Top executives of India’s telecom companies Tuesday met the country’s Telecom Minister Kapil Sibal to discuss contentious issues plaguing the sector.

Bharti Airtel, one of the leading telecommunications company, has renewed its contract with Nokia Siemens Networks (NSN) for another five-years to manage and maintain its networks in eight circles of India.

India and Sri Lanka have signed an agreement for establishing a mechanism of technical and institutional cooperation in the field of telecommunications, with the purpose of development of telecommunications in both the countries.

The total number of telephone subscribers increased by 0.30% from 914.59 million at the end of October 2011 to 917.33 million at the end of November 2011.

The Telecom Ministry will ask for nearly $300 million from Tata Teleservices, Vodafone, Reliance Communications, Airtel and Idea Cellular for underreporting revenues, India’s Press Trust of India has reported, quoting unidentified sources.

The Telecom Disputes Settlement and Appellate Tribunal of India has allowed some mobile operators to continue offering 3G services in areas for which they don’t have licenses until Jan. 9.

A month-wise list of important developments in the Indian telecom sector in 2011.

The number of social media users in India will reach 45 million in 2012, up from about 30 million in 2010, according to market research firm Research and Markets.

India’s Telecom Commission has accepted the recommendations of industry regulator TRAI to relax mergers and acquisitions rules in the sector. The decision paves the way for spectrum-sharing among telecom operators. This will lead to consolidation in market with over a dozen telecom companies.

India’s Telecom Disputes Settlement & Appellate Tribunal has restrained the telecom ministry from taking any “coercive” steps until January 3 next year against the telecom companies for entering into 3G roaming pacts.

India’s total GSM mobile subscriber base stood at 632.1 million as telecom operators added 6.7 million new subscribers in the month of November, an increase of 1.1% from the previous month.

The chiefs of leading telecom companies met Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh and other key policy makers to discuss contentious issues plaguing the telecom sector.

India’s Bharti Airtel, a leading global telecommunications company with operations in 19 countries across Asia and Africa, Monday expanded its managed services agreement with Ericsson for its India operations.

A report by India’s telecom regulator states that the combined earned revenue of the country’s telecom operators was $9.6 billion at the end of Q2 (September 2011).