India’s second largest telco and cellco Bharti Airtel can take some solace from its latest quarterly results in besting its rampant rival Reliance Jio and boosting 5G ARPU without losing customers. Before breaking out Bharti’s numbers, topically the group is courting foreign pastures where ARPUs are higher than existing markets of India and Africa. Bharti Global, the group’s investment arm, has agreed to acquire about 24.5% of BT Group’s issued share capital from France’s Altice UK, owned by that country’s entrepreneur Patrick Drahi. At an estimated $4 billion, that deal should create some synergies in the telecom sector between India and the UK, with a focus on AI and 5G research and development. This deepens a relationship between Bharti and…