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		<title>Abundant Challenges for Bharti Airtel in Africa &#8211; Terry Rhodes</title>
		<description><![CDATA[HSBC Global hosted a Con Call with Terry Rhodes, co-founder of Celtel International acquired by Zain. Mr. Rhodes was of the following opinion
On Diversity and Cultural spread in Africa,
As Africa consists of 53 countries, to operate successfully it is important to understand the dynamics of each country, including differences in culture, language and especially regulations. [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://convergence.in/blog/2010/03/11/abundant-challenges-for-bharti-airtel-in-africa/</link>
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		<title>3G Auction on Schedule &#8211; Pilot + Spectrum Roadmap &#8211; Misra</title>
		<description><![CDATA[In an exclusive interaction with BNP Analysts, Mr. Sachin Pilot, Minister of State for Communications said
3G auction is on schedule for 9 April 2010. The dispute between defence and telecom ministry over spectrum has been resolved and 3G rollout is expected 3-6 months after the auction. Expect consolidation within the telecom industry and finally VAS [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://convergence.in/blog/2010/03/11/3g-auction-on-schedule-pilot-spectrum-roadmap-misra/</link>
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		<title>Cash from Inclusive Growth for Global Ambitions &#8211; Bharti Airtel</title>
		<description><![CDATA[If you have been tracking corporate India&#8217;s moves in the past 18 months [Tata Corus + Jaguar, Hindalco Novellis, etc]  our businessmen are in a hurry to fulfill their global ambitions. Bharti Airtel&#8217;s Mittal is also running on a similar track and this I believe is going to be really big &#8211; SingTel will be [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://convergence.in/blog/2010/02/26/live-coverage-bharti-airtel-zain-deal-concall/</link>
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		<title>Indian Mobile Operators Revenue + Subscriber Market Share</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Here is a quick peek into the market share[MS] of various mobile companies in India at the end of Dec-2009. Read Subscriber MS as SIM based MS.

Bharti Airtel &#8211; Subscribers &#8211; 22.6% while Revenue is the highest at 29.1%, saw a decline of 1.1% in the Dec quarter.
Reliance Communications &#8211; Subscribers &#8211; 17.9% and Revenue [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://convergence.in/blog/2010/02/23/wireless-operators-revenue-vs-subscribers-market/</link>
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		<title>Bharti Airtel &#8211; Zain Deal &#8211; Another Expensive Acquisition</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Mr. Sunil Mittal is the most determined soul for Wireless African Safari   After having paid a premium in acquiring Warid Telecom, Bangladesh, this time his company is paying similar hefty premium [even RoE, RoCE are all low and not comparable to Airtel] to acquire the Wireless operations of Zain in Africa with operations [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://convergence.in/blog/2010/02/16/bharti-airtel-zain-deal-another-expensive-acquisition/</link>
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		<title>Micromax 3rd largest Handset Vendor in India</title>
		<description><![CDATA[To many this may come as a surprise that a lesser known company Micromax is the third largest mobile handset vendor in India by Sales behind Nokia and Samsung.
Micromax followed a different strategy of hitting the bottomg of the pyramid and managed to make significant inroads riding on the multi-SIM phenomenon in semi-urban &#38; rural [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://convergence.in/blog/2010/02/04/micromax-3rd-largest-handset-vendor-in-india/</link>
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		<title>How Idea Managed to beat Bharti Airtel in Traffic Growth</title>
		<description><![CDATA[First, my apologies that I couldn&#8217;t cover neither Idea Cellular nor Bharti Airtel Results &#38; Analyst Call as I am stuck in Mumbai for some personal work. However, going through the data, I find it interesting to note that Idea Cellular has punched straight into the face of Bharti Airtel in tems of Traffic Growth [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://convergence.in/blog/2010/01/29/how-idea-managed-to-beat-bharti-airtel-in-traffic-growth/</link>
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		<title>Bharti Airtel Squeezes Abu Dhabi&#8217;s Sheikh Mabarak Al Nahayan out of Warid Telecom</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Bharti Airtel&#8217;s intention to takeover Bangladesh&#8217;s Warid Telecom is finally confirmed. Time for some self-praise &#8211; I was very close in  valuing Warid Telecom setting aside the hype created by India&#8217;s leading financial daily and all other Web 2.0 folks   Bharti Airtel has informed,
Bharti will invest ~USD 300 mn in Warid, which [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://convergence.in/blog/2010/01/13/bharti-airtel-squeezes-abu-dhabis-sheikh-mabarak-al-nahayan-out-of-warid-telecom/</link>
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