Airtel's African deal debt cost at $200 mn

NEW DELHI, INDIA: Bharti Airtel's annual debt servicing cost for its African deal has been pegged at $200 million, Manoj Kohli, chief executive of Bharti's international unit said on Wednesday.

Bharti Airtel last month completed its $9 billion acquisition of mobile operations in 15 African countries from Kuwait's Zain in a deal that made the Indian firm the world's fifth biggest cellphone company by subscribers