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What you need to know: This weblog captures key data points about the global telecoms industry. I use it as an electronic notebook to support my work for Pringle Media.

Wednesday, November 10, 2010

Bharti Airtel Grows Bigger

India's largest mobile operator Bharti Airtel said  its revenues in South Asia rose 9.2% year-on-year in the quarter ending September 30 to 113.31 billion Indian rupees (2.56 billion US dollars), while its newly-acquired African operations generated 38.91 billion rupees in the quarter.

Bharti's customers in South Asia climbed 32% year-on-year to almost 148 million at the end of September, while the voice minutes on its networks in the region rose 36% year-on-year. But Bharti's average revenue-per-minute in India fell 21% year-on-year to 44.4 Indian paisas (1 US cent). Bharti said its average revenue-per-minute in Africa was 6.6 US cents in the quarter, down 9% quarter-on-quarter. source: Bharti Airtel statement 

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