Bharti Airtel Receives Rs 2,649Cr Funding from Singapore Telecom Giant Singtel
Singapore's largest mobile network operator Singtel has invested Rs 2,649 crore in Bharti Telecom Ltd. boosting its stakes by 48.9 percent. Singaporean Telecommunications has over 4.1 million subscribers and through subsidiaries, has a combined mobile subscriber base of 640 million customers at the end of financial year 2017.
“Airtel Limited...announced that Singapore Telecommunications Limited (Singtel)... will invest Rs2,649 crore in Bharti Telecom Limited (Bharti Telecom), the promoter company of Airtel through preferential allotment of shares,” Bharti Airtel said in a statement.
"Singtel International Investments will be allotted up to 85,450,000 new equity shares in Bharti Telecom at an issue price of INR310 per equity share," Singtel said in a statement Monday.
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