Google To Invest Rs 7,400 Crore In Airtel, Take 1.28% Ownership

New Delhi: Telecom main Bharti Airtel on Friday introduced that web large Google plans to take a position as much as $1 billion in a multi-year settlement to push India's digital ecosystem. Airtel, in a regulatory submitting, mentioned, "As part of this partnership, Google intends to invest up to $1 billion (around Rs 7,400 crore) over the next five years.""Deal includes investment of $700 million to acquire 1.28 per cent ownership in Airtel at a price per share of Rs 734 and up to $300 million toward potential multi-year commercial agreements," Airtel acknowledged."The partnership will focus on enabling affordable access to smartphones across price ranges, and will continue to explore building on their existing partnerships to potentially co-create India-specific network domain use cases for 5G and other standards, and help accelerate the cloud ecosystem for businesses across India," the telecom firm talked about.Sunil Bharti Mittal, Chairman of Bharti Airtel, mentioned, "Airtel and Google share the vision to grow India's digital dividend through innovative products. 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."“Airtel is a leading pioneer shaping India's digital future, and we are proud to partner on a shared vision for expanding connectivity and ensuring equitable access to the Internet for more Indians,” mentioned Sundar Pichai, CEO of Google and Alphabet.“Our business and fairness funding in Airtel is a continuation of our Google for India Digitization Fund's efforts to extend entry to smartphones, improve connectivity to assist new enterprise fashions, and assist firms on their digital transformation journey."Both firms can even deal with shaping and rising the cloud ecosystem in India to speed up their digital transformation journeys, the regulatory submitting additional learn.