Telenor (India)



2009–2015	2015–2018

Telenor India started as a joint venture in 2009 between Telenor and Unitech, a real estate company, under the name of Uninor. Unitech pulled out of the joint venture in 2012, leading Telenor to acquire a 100% stake.

Due to a perennially low market share, and the rapid consolidation in the Indian telecoms industry unleashed by the latest competitor, Jio, Telenor found it unviable to continue in India and sold its network to Bharti Airtel in 2018.

Uninor[]

2009–2015[]

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Uninor rebranded to Telenor in 2015, following what Telenor's Hungarian, Montenegrin and Serbian subsidiaries had done in 2010.

Telenor[]

2015–2018[]

With the sale to Airtel, the Telenor brand in India was discontinued in 2018.

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Telenor

Current operations:

Other operations:
Maritime telecommunication: Telenor Maritim Radio (Norway)
Financial: Telenor Microfinance Bank (Pakistan)
Television services: Allente (Nordics), T-We (Norway), Telenor MyTV (Hungary)
Machine-to-machine/IoT: Telenor Connexion
Other holdings: VEON (14.8%) (Kyivstar/Other)

Related: Telenor Arena

¹Co-owned with Axiata.
²Sold to PPF Group in 2018 with the Telenor brand changed to Yettel in 2022.
³Sold to PPF Group in 2018, and later to 4iG in 2022 with the Telenor brand changed in the same year.
⁴Merged into Bharti Airtel in 2018 and closed.
⁵Became O₂ Ireland; merged with Three in 2015.

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Bharti Airtel

Indian operations:

Mobile telecommunications: Airtel | Tata Docomo¹ | Satellite DTH television: Airtel Digital TV | Internet video box/stick: Airtel Xstream
Mobile apps: Video-on-demand and mobile live TV: Airtel Xstream | Music streaming: Wynk Music

Overseas operations:
Bangladesh: Airtel (Robi)² | Channel Islands: Airtel-Vodafone³ | Sri Lanka: Airtel (Sri Lanka)
Africa: Airtel⁴ (Chad, DR Congo, Gabon, Ghana^5a, Kenya, Malawi, Madagascar, Niger, Nigeria, Rep. Congo, Rwanda^5b, Seychelles, Tanzania, Uganda and Zambia)

Former operations⁶: Burkina Faso | Sierra Leone

Defunct operations: Telenor (India)⁷

¹Formerly a joint venture between Tata Group and NTT docomo. Acquired from Tata by Airtel.
²Joint venture with Axiata.
³Joint venture with Vodafone.
⁴Acquired from Zain.
^5aJoint venture with Millicom.
^5bAcquisition of Tigo Rwanda from Millicom is pending.
⁶Acquired by Orange S.A..
⁷Acquired from Telenor and closed.

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