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This holi celebrate your own colour with ‘Lakme School of Style’ at #fame
MUMBAI: It’s time to run riot. It’s the festival of colours – Holi – so very loved by all of us. India loves colour and simply loves to play with it. Yet, why is it then that when it comes to the very colour of skin we become shy or ashamed or want to make it glow differently?
This Holi, #fame and the Lakmé School Of Style urge every Indian to celebrate their colour with an open heart and with a splash of delight. Your own colour is as beautiful and unique. Laced with beautiful poetry the #fame video titled Celebrate Your Colours is vivid and touching and brings out one’s own self as you watch it because “baat ye hai ki hum Hindustani hoti hi hain rangeen… jo pyaar hamein rangon se hai who kisi aur ko kahan?”
A strong statement on the beloved festival of us all and delivered with an intent, this #fame Lakme School Of Style video underlines the value of equality, liberty, freedom and rejoiceness. “Gore rang se badhta nahin kisi ka maan, Haisiyat banti hai mehnat se… Aur mehnat ko toh rang dikhta hi nahin”
Yes, love all, colour all, love thyself. #fame Lakme School Of Style on https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vbJM3mGwCu8 will rip open your heart and make you think, revel and feel the colours of life. So, this Holi kholo apne mann ko… manao jashn apne khud ke rang ka.
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Airtel crosses 650 million customers to cement its place as world’s second largest telco
The Indian telecoms giant, now spanning 15 countries, is chasing the top spot with satellites, smartphones and mobile money
NEW DELHI: Numbers like these do not come around often. Bharti Airtel has crossed 650 million customers, making it the world’s second largest telecom operator by mobile customer base, according to GSMA Intelligence. Only one rival sits ahead of it. The gap, Airtel intends to close.
Gopal Vittal, executive vice chairman of Bharti Airtel, was characteristically measured. “Achieving the milestone of 650 million customers to be the second largest operator globally is a great responsibility for us to serve our customers better every day,” he said. “Every customer interaction is an opportunity to earn trust and deliver value.”
The scale of the operation is striking. In India, Airtel serves over 368 million mobile customers and was the first operator to launch 5G Plus services. It now reaches over 13 million homes with high-speed internet and a further 15 million households through its Digital TV offering. Its enterprise arm, Airtel Business, runs mission-critical infrastructure across cybersecurity, cloud, IoT and SD-WAN, underpinned by over 400,000 route kilometres of subsea fibre and a string of green data centres. The company has also announced a push into non-banking financial services, using its data insights to offer personalised credit products through the Airtel app.
Africa tells an equally ambitious story. Airtel Africa serves over 179 million customers across 14 countries, with Airtel Money, its mobile financial platform, counting over 52 million users. In a continent where traditional banking remains out of reach for millions, Airtel Money is not a product. It is infrastructure.
Beyond terrestrial networks, Airtel is reaching upward. Partnerships with Eutelsat OneWeb and SpaceX give it access to a constellation of low earth orbit satellites, pushing high-speed, low-latency broadband to remote maritime, aviation and rural areas that cables will never reach.
Airtel’s networks now cover over two billion people across 15 countries. The company that began as an Indian mobile operator has become something rather larger. At 650 million customers and climbing, it is not finished yet.
