Bharti to offer affordable rates
India’s Bharti
Airtel will offer affordable rates in Africa to boost usage, but has no
plan for a price war, a top company executive said on Wednesday, a day
after the firm completed a deal to buy the African assets of Kuwait’s
Zain.
The Indian telecom
market leader has taken over mobile operations in 15 African countries
in the $9 billion deal that makes it the world’s fifth-biggest cell
phone company with 180 million customers in 18 countries.
“Affordability
definitely we are committed to. That broadly I can say,” Manoj Kohli,
chief executive of the firm’s international business, told Reuters in
an interview.
Mr. Kohli will be moving on Friday to Nairobi to manage the African business.
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