Bharti Airtel Ltd.

Bharti Airtel, India's largest telecom service provider, has entered into an exclusive discussion with Axiata Group Berhad (Axiata) to explore the possibility of combining the business operations of their telecommunication subsidiaries in Bangladesh; namely, Robi Axiata and Airtel Bangladesh. There is no certainty that this discussion will lead into the execution of binding definitive agreements between the parties.

Bharti Airtel is a leading integrated telecommunications company with operations in 20 countries across Asia and Africa. The company ranks amongst the top 5 mobile service providers globally in terms of subscribers.