Bharti Airtel surges on raising rentals of 2G data plans

15 Oct 2013 Evaluate

Bharti Airtel is currently trading at Rs. 337.05, up by 4.40 points or 1.32% from its previous closing of Rs. 332.65 on the BSE.

The scrip opened at Rs. 336.45 and has touched a high and low of Rs. 342.30 and Rs. 334.20 respectively. So far 93653 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. 342.30 and Rs. 323.05 respectively. The current market cap of the company is Rs. 136431.27 crore.

The promoters holding in the company stood at 65.23% while Institutions and Non-Institutions held 24.76% and 10.01% respectively.

In a bid to improve sales numbers and margins in this fiercely competitive sector, Bharti Airtel has significantly raised rentals of 2G data plans over the past week. The company’s Delhi and Mumbai customers will now get only 525 MB of free data when they pay Rs 125 for a 2G data plan while 1 GB data will be available for Rs 154.

Recently, the company 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 had been raised to Rs 8 per minute from Rs 6.40 per minute earlier.

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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