Bharti keen to enter African market by buying Zain’s African assets

www.WirelessFederation.com/news: By seizing on a potential $9 billion deal with Kuwait’s Zain, Bharti Airtel appears determined to wade into a market loaded with poverty, promise and major legal tussles but the deal if completed, would catapult the company into the ranks of major telecom operators in Africa. Thus Bharti would have significant footholds in two continental markets- India and Africa.

While Zain appears to be keen seller, Airtel too expects to get a head start over those trying to buy scattered operations or acquire licenses in different African countries.

However, Bharti isn’t the only telecom operator eager to enter the African market. $2.5 billion has been bid by a consortium involving China Unicom (Hong Kong) Ltd for the former state telecoms monopoly in Nigeria.