Bharti Infratel Q2 net drops 24% to Rs 733 crore

Telecom infrastructure firm Bharti Airtel on Thursday posted a 24 per cent drop in consolidated net profit to Rs 733 crore for the quarter ended September 2020. The company had recorded a net profit of Rs 964 crore in the corresponding period of 2019-20. Consolidated revenue grew by about 2 per cent to Rs 3,695 crore during the reported quarter from Rs 3,638 crore earlier, the company said.

Bharti Infratel also announced the appointment of Indus Towers’ MD and CEO Bimal Dayal as the company’s managing director to facilitate integration of the two companies. The National Company Law Tribunal (NCLT) has approved merger of Indus Towers with Bharti Infratel, which will create the country’s largest telecom infrastructure firm. “To facilitate integration and to ensure continuity, the Board of Directors of Infratel today appointed Mr. Bimal Dayal, the current MD & CEO of Indus Towers and the proposed CEO of the merged entity by the Shareholder Groups (Bharti Airtel and Vodafone Plc) as the MD of Bharti Infratel with immediate effect,” Bharti Infratel Chairman Akhil Gupta said in a statement.