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Google Investing $700 Million to Acquire a 1.28% Stake in Airtel

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Bharti Airtel and Google on Friday announced a multi-year agreement to boost India’s digital ecosystem, with Sundar Pichai-led tech giant investing $700 million to acquire 1.28 percent ownership in Airtel and up to $300 million toward commercial agreements.

The $700 million equity investment in Bharti Airtel is at a price per share of Rs 734. In comparison, $300 million will go towards investments in scaling Airtel’s offerings that cover a range of devices to consumers.

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“With our future ready network, digital platforms, last mile distribution and payments ecosystem, we look forward to working closely with Google to increase the depth and breadth of India’s digital ecosystem,” said Sunil Bharti Mittal, Chairman of Bharti Airtel.

This deal will be subject to necessary regulatory approvals.

As a part of their first commercial agreement, Airtel and Google will work together to build on Airtel’s extensive offerings that cover a range of Android-enabled devices to consumers via innovative affordability programs.

“Our commercial and equity investment in Airtel is a continuation of our Google for India Digitisation Fund’s efforts to increase access to smartphones, enhance connectivity to support new business models, and help companies on their digital transformation journey,” – Pichai, CEO of Google and Alphabet.

The companies said they will continue to explore further opportunities to bring down the barriers of owning a smartphone across a range of price points, in partnership with various device manufacturers.

Both companies will also potentially co-create India-specific network domain use cases for 5G and other standards, with cutting-edge implementations.

Airtel is already using Google’s 5G-ready Evolved Packet Core and Software Defined Network platforms, and plans to explore scaling up the deployment of Google’s network virtualization. solutions to deliver a superior network experience to their customers.

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