Bharti Airtel shines on increasing international call rates by around 80%

14 Oct 2013 Evaluate

Bharti Airtel is currently trading at Rs. 335.25, up by 0.70 points or 0.21% from its previous closing of Rs. 334.55 on the BSE.

The scrip opened at Rs. 336.30 and has touched a high and low of Rs. 338.60 and Rs. 334.25 respectively. So far 68963 shares were traded on the counter.

The BSE group 'A' stock of face value Rs. 5 has touched a 52 week high of Rs. 370.40 on 25-Jan-2013 and a 52 week low of Rs. 256.65 on 15-Oct-2012.

Last one week high and low of the scrip stood at Rs. 338.60 and Rs. 320.00 respectively. The current market cap of the company is Rs. 133972.86 crore.

The promoters holding in the company stood at 65.23% while Institutions and Non-Institutions held 24.40% and 10.37% respectively.

Bharti Airtel has increased international call rates by up to 80% this month on account of depreciation in rupee. The standard call rates to countries like the US, UK and Canada has been raised to Rs 8 per minute from Rs 6.40 per minute earlier.

Maximum hike of 80% has been on Airtel network on calls made for special services in Australia with effect from October 10. The calls which cost Rs 100 for dialling Australia numbers with ISD code 6113 and 6114 have been raised from Rs 100 to Rs 180.

Airtel is India’s largest telecom company with 192.22 million subscribers as of August-end. The company had a market capitalisation of Rs 1.28 lakh crore as on October 1, 2013 and it owns seven operational data centres across the country. Out of them, two are in Noida, one each in Chennai, Bangalore, Pune, Bhubaneswar and Mumbai.

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