Bharti Airtel Ltd.

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.