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Axiata

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Malaysian multinational telecommunications company

Axiata Group Berhad (formerly known as TM International Berhad) is a Malaysian multinational telecommunications conglomerate with extensive operations in Asia.2 Its shares trade on Bursa Malaysia under the symbol 6888.1 Wikipedia text CC BY-SA 4.0

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Last updated Oct 21, 2026.

Overview

Jun 12, 1992Founded1

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  • Ticker6888 on Bursa Malaysia1
  • Industrytelecommunications industry1
  • HeadquartersKuala Lumpur1
  • Websitewww.axiata.com
  • Legal formberhad, joint-stock company1

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Axiata Group Berhad (formerly known as TM International Berhad) is a Malaysian multinational telecommunications conglomerate with extensive operations in Asia.2

Corporate structure

Axiata sits at the top of its group. 10 entities, 6 countries on record. Switch between the flow chart and the network, and select any entity to see its details.

  • Axiata Kuala Lumpur
    • Robi Axiata Subsidiary · 92% · Tejgao, Bangladesh
      • Binge Subsidiary · Bangladesh
    • Dialog Subsidiary · 83.32% · Colombo
    • Ncell Subsidiary · 80%
    • AXIS Subsidiary · Jakarta
    • Celcom Subsidiary · Kuala Lumpur
    • Smart Axiata Subsidiary · Phnom Penh
    • XLSmart Subsidiary · Jakarta Selatan, Indonesia
      • XL Subsidiary · Jakarta, Indonesia

Built from subsidiaries, stakes and holdings from Wikidata (CC0); major holders from Schedules 13D and 13G. Each entity in the chart links to its source.

What it owns

What Axiata reports owning in its annual reports to the SEC: buildings, land and equipment, real estate and locations, investments, intangible assets and inventory, at the end of its latest fiscal year and a year before.

Stakes and holdings (Wikidata)

Things Wikidata records the company as owning, with the share when stated.1

Products and brands

  • cellular network

Listed on Wikidata.1

On their website in 2019, it was announced that Axiata had approximately 150 million subscribers across Asia and Group revenue of MYR25.3 billion (US$5.77 billion) in 2018. It was also reported that the company employed 12,000 people throughout eleven countries.

Axiata's mobile subsidiaries and associates operate under the brand name CelcomDigi in Malaysia, XLSmart in Indonesia, Dialog in Sri Lanka, Robi in Bangladesh, and Smart in Cambodia. The company formerly operated under the brand name Ncell in Nepal (acquisition from TeliaSonera completed on 12 April 2016), M1 in Singapore, and Idea in India.

On 4 January 2018, Bloomberg reported that Axiata was planning a domestic IPO of its tower subsidiary EDOTCO Group. The IPO was expected to raise as much as $500 million.

On 15 February 2019, Axiata sold off its entire shares in 'M1' to Konnectivity Pte. Ltd. for RM1.65 billion, citing the need for capital reallocation and new priorities in line with its vision to be the Next Generation Digital Champion by 2022.

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On 21 June 2021, Axiata, Telenor and Digi agreed to a potential merger of Celcom and Digi to create a stronger telco in Malaysia, coming after advanced discussions that took place two months earlier. The merger was expected to be completed by the end of 2022. The deal was approved by both Celcom and Digi shareholders on 18 November 2022. The merged company would be named CelcomDigi. At completion, Axiata and Telenor would hold equal ownership of 33.1% each in the newly merged company. The merger completed on 30 November 2022, and the new company began operations the next day.

On 1 December 2023, the United Kingdom-based Spectrlite UK Limited acquired 100 percent ownership of Reynolds Holdings Limited from Axiata UK of Axiata Group Berhad. Reynolds owns an 80 percent equity stake in Ncell, a telecom company in Nepal.

From Wikipedia’s article on Axiata, shared under CC BY-SA 4.0.4

Subsidiaries and ownership

Owners

  • Khazanah Nasional

Subsidiaries

Also owns

From Wikidata.1

Acquisitions

  1. Sep 26, 2013Acquired AXIS1

Timeline

  1. Jun 12, 1992Founded Founded1

Sources

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