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Bharti Airtel Limited, commonly known as Airtel, is an Indian telecommunications services company headquartered at New Delhi, India.

It operates in 20 countries across South Asia, Africa and the Channel Islands. Airtel has GSM network in all countries, providing 2G, 3G and 4G services depending upon the country of operation. Airtel is the world's third-largest mobile telecommunications company with over 261 million subscribers across 20 countries as of August 2012.[4] It is the largest cellular service provider in India, with 185.92 million subscribers as of September 2012.[5] Airtel is the third largest in-country mobile operator by subscriber base, behind China Mobile and China Unicom. Airtel is the largest provider of mobile telephony and second largest provider of fixed telephony in India, and is also a provider of broadband and subscription television services. It offers its telecom services under the airtel brand, and is headed by Sunil Bharti Mittal. Bharti Airtel is the first Indian telecom service provider to achieve Cisco Gold Certification.[6] It also acts as a carrier for national and international long distance communication services. The company has a submarine cable landing station at Chennai, which connects the submarine cable connecting Chennai and Singapore. Airtel is credited with pioneering the business strategy of outsourcing all of its business operations except marketing, sales and finance and building the 'minutes factory' model of low cost and high volumes. The strategy has since been copied by several operators.[7] Its network base stations, microwave links, etc.is maintained by Ericsson, Nokia Siemens Network and Huawei,[8] and business support is provided by IBM,[9] and transmission towers are maintained by another company (Bharti Infratel Ltd. in India).[10] Ericsson agreed for the first time to be paid by the minute for installation and maintenance of their equipment rather than being paid up front, which allowed Airtel to provide low call rates of 1/minute (US$0.02/minute).[11] During the last financial year (200910), Bharti negotiated for its strategic partner Alcatel-Lucent to manage the network infrastructure for the tele-media business. On 31 May 2012, Bharti Airtel awarded the three year contract to Alcatel-Lucent for setting up an Internet Protocol access network (mobile backhaul) across the country. This would help consumers access internet at faster speed and high quality internet browsing on mobile handsets.[12]

Contents

1 History 2 Organizational Structure 3 Worldwide presence 4 Mobile Services o 4.1 3G o 4.2 4G o 4.3 Airtel Money o 4.4 SmartDrive o 4.5 iPhone 5 Telemedia 6 Digital Television 7 Enterprise o 7.1 Mobile data service

7.2 Enterprise business solutions 7.3 Android-based tablet 8 International Operations o 8.1 Africa o 8.2 Bangladesh o 8.3 Sri Lanka o 8.4 Channel Islands: Jersey and Guernsey 9 Subscriber Base o 9.1 India 10 One Network 11 Acquisitions and Mergers o 11.1 MTN Group o 11.2 Zain o 11.3 Telecom Seychelles 12 Joint Ventures o 12.1 Airtel-Ericsson 13 Rebranding 14 Sponsorship 15 Signature Tune 16 Green Initiative 17 Timeline 18 See also 19 References 20 External links

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History
This section does not cite any references or sources. (October 2012) Sunil Bharti Mittal founded the Bharti Group. In 1983, Mittal was in an agreement with Germany's Siemens to manufacture push-button telephone models for the Indian market. In 1986, Mittal incorporated Bharti Telecom Limited (BTL), and his company became the first in India to offer push-button telephones, establishing the basis of Bharti Enterprises. By the early 1990s, Sunil Mittal had also launched the country's first fax machines and its first cordless telephones. In 1992, Mittal won a bid to build a cellular phone network in Delhi. In 1995, Mittal incorporated the cellular operations as Bharti Tele-Ventures and launched service in Delhi. In 1996, cellular service was extended to Himachal Pradesh. In 1999, Bharti Enterprises acquired control of JT Holdings, and extended cellular operations to Karnataka and Andhra Pradesh. In 2000, Bharti acquired control of Skycell Communications, in Chennai. In 2001, the company acquired control of Spice Cell in Calcutta. Bharti Enterprises went public in 2002, and the company was listed on Bombay Stock Exchange and National Stock Exchange of India. In 2003, the cellular phone operations were rebranded under the single Airtel brand. In 2004, Bharti acquired control of Hexacom and entered Rajasthan. In 2005, Bharti extended its network to

Andaman and Nicobar. This expansion allowed it to offer voice services all across India. In 2009, Airtel launched its first international mobile network in Sri Lanka. In 2010, Airtel acquired the African operations of the Kuwait based Zain Telecom.In March 2012,Airtel launched a mobile operation in Rwanda. Today, Airtel is the largest cellular service provider in India and the third largest in the world.

Organizational Structure
This section does not cite any references or sources. (October 2012) Airtel's initial organizational structure concentrated on the hierarchy of the operations inside the company as a whole. The structure depicted the corresponding operation/region of different incharges and it didn't hold anyone responsible for each of its services. So, the company found it better to restructure its organizational chart. The transformed organisational structure has two distinct Customer Business Units (CBU) with clear focus on B2C (Business to Customer) and B2B (Business to Business) segments. Bharti Airtel's B2C business unit will comprehensively service the retail consumers, homes and small offices, by combining the erstwhile business units - Mobile, Telemedia, Digital TV, and other emerging businesses (like M-commerce, M-health, M-advertising etc.). The B2C organization will consist of Consumer Business and Market Operations.

Worldwide presence

Coverage map of Bharti Airtel across 20 countries Airtel is the third largest mobile operator in the world in terms of subscriber base and has a commercial presence in 20 countries and the Channel Islands.

Its area of operations include:

The Indian Subcontinent:

Airtel Bangla, in Bangladesh Airtel, in India Airtel Sri Lanka, in Sri Lanka Airtel Africa, which operates in 17 African countries: o Burkina Faso, Chad, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Republic of the Congo, Gabon, Ghana, Kenya, Madagascar, Malawi, Niger, Nigeria, Rwanda, Seychelles, Sierra Leone, Tanzania, Uganda and Zambia. The British Crown Dependency islands of Jersey and Guernsey, under the brand name Airtel-Vodafone, through an agreement with Vodafone.

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Airtel operates in the following countries: Site Airtel Bangladesh Bangladesh Burkina Airtel Burkina Faso Faso Airtel Chad Chad Democratic Airtel DRC Republic of the Congo Gabon Airtel Gabon Country Remarks Airtel Bangladesh had about 5.1 million customers at the end of June 2011.[13] Airtel Burkina Faso is the dominant player with 1,433,000 customers representing 50% market share.[14] Airtel Chad is the #1 operator with 69% market share.[14] Airtel is the market leader with almost 5 million customers at the end of 2010.

Airtel Gabon has 829,000 customers and its market share stood at 61%.[15] Airtel Ghana had about 1.76 million customers at the end of Ghana Airtel Ghana 2010.[16] Airtel is the market leader with almost 152.5 million customers at Airtel India the end of 2010.[16] Airtel Kenya is the second largest operator and has 4 million Kenya Airtel Kenya customers.[17] Airtel holds second place in the mobile telecom market in Airtel Madagascar, has a 39% market share and over 1.4 million Madagascar Madagascar customers.[14] Malawi Airtel Malawi Airtel Malawi is the market leader with a market share of 72%.[14] Airtel Niger Airtel Niger is the market leader with a 68% market share.[14] Niger Nigeria Airtel Nigeria Republic of Airtel Congo Airtel Congo is the market leader with a 55% market share.[14] the Congo B Rwanda Airtel Rwanda Airtel launched services in Rwanda on 30 March 2012.[18] Airtel is the leading comprehensive telecommunications services Airtel providers with over 55% market share of mobile market in Seychelles Seychelles Seychelles.[19]

Sierra Leone Sri Lanka Tanzania

Airtel Sierra Leone Airtel Sri Lanka Airtel Tanzania

Airtel Sri Lanka commenced operations on 12 January 2009. It had about 1.8 million mobile customers at the end of 2010.[16] Airtel Tanzania is the market leader with a 38% market share.[14] Airtel Uganda stands as the #2 operator with a market share of 38%.[14]

Uganda Airtel Uganda

Zambia Airtel Zambia Channel Islands : Airtel Airtel operates in the Channel Islands under the brand name Jersey Vodafone AirtelVodafone through an agreement with Vodafone. Guernsey Jersey and Guernsey are British Crown Dependencies. They are not independent countries. Therefore, Airtel's
countries of operation is considered to be 20.

Mobile Services
Airtel operates in all telecom circles of India, and is the 6th most valued brand according to an annual survey conducted by Brand Finance and The Economic Times in 2010.[20][21]

3G
On May 18, 2010, 3G spectrum auction was completed and Airtel will have to pay the Indian government 122.95 billion (US$2.32 billion) for spectrum in 13 circles, the most amount spent by an operator in this auction. Airtel won 3G licences in 13 telecom circles of India: Delhi, Mumbai, Andhra Pradesh, Karnataka, Tamil Nadu, Uttar Pradesh (east), Rajasthan, West Bengal, Himachal Pradesh, Bihar, Assam, North East, and Jammu & Kashmir.[22] Airtel also operates 3G services in Maharastra, Goa, Kanpur and Kolkata through an agreement with Vodafone and in Gujarat through an agreement with Idea. This gives Airtel a 3G presence in 15 out of 22 circles in India. On September 20, 2010, Bharti Airtel said that it has given contracts to Ericsson India, Nokia Siemens Networks (NSN) and Huawei Technologies to set up infrastructure for providing 3G services in the country. These vendors will plan, design, deploy and maintain 3GHSPA (third generation, high speed packet access) networks in 13 telecom circles where the company has won 3G licences. While Bharti Airtel has awarded network contracts for seven 3G circles to Ericsson India, NSN would manage networks in three circles. Chinese telecom equipment vendor Huawei Technologies has been introduced as the third partner for three circles.[23] On January 24, 2011, Airtel launched 3G services in Bangalore, Karnatakaits largest circle by revenue. With this launch, Airtel became the third private operator (fifth overall) to launch its 3G services in the country following Reliance Communications and Tata Docomo.[24] On January

27, 2011, Airtel launched 3G in Chennai and Coimbatore. On July 27, 2011 Airtel launched 3G in three major cities in Kerala (Trivandrum, Cochin and Calicut).[25] Airtel 3G services are available in 200 cities through its network and in 500 cities through intracircle roaming arrangements with other operators. Airtel had about 7 million 3G subscribers as of May 2012.[26]

4G
On 19 May 2010, the broadband wireless access (BWA) or 4G spectrum auction in India ended. Airtel paid 33.1436 billion for spectrum in 4 circles: Maharashtra, Karnataka, Punjab and Kolkata.[27] The company was allocated 20 MHz of BWA spectrum in 2.3 GHz frequency band. Airtel's TD-LTE network is built and operated by ZTE in Kolkata, Huawei in Karnataka, Ericsson in Punjab and Nokia Siemens Networks in Maharashtra.[28] On 10 April 2012, Airtel launched 4G services using TD-LTE technology in Kolkata, becoming the first company in India to offer 4G services. The Kolkata launch was followed launches in Bangalore (7 May 2012)[29] and Pune (18 October 2012).[30] It will launch services next in Chandigarh.[31] On 24 May 2012, Airtel announced an agreement to acquire a 49% stake in Qualcomm Asia Pacific (India). Qualcomm holds 4G spectrum and licenses in Delhi, Haryana, Kerala and Mumbai. As per the agreement, by the end of 2014, Airtel will assume full ownership and financial responsibility for 4G operations in these 4 circles.[32] Airtel had 3180 4G subscribers as of May 2012.[33]

Airtel Money
Airtel has started a new mCommerce platform called Airtel Money with collaboration with Infosys and SmartTrust (now Giesecke & Devrient). It was launched on April 5, 2012, in Infosys Campus of bangalore. with the help of Airtelmoney,users can transfer money,pay bills and other financial transactions using mobile phone. [34]

SmartDrive
SmartDrive is navigation app exclusive to Airtel customers. The app features voice-based turn by turn navigation, real time information update on traffic, approximate time of the travel on the basis of the traffic situation on the various routes and also lets users see their location on the map and plan the journey accordingly. It also suggests the subscriber an alternate route in case of traffic congestion on the normal route. According to Airtel, SmartDrive calculates the traffic on the basis of the number of GPS devices used on a particular road, their average speed, as well as historical trends of traffic on that route. SmartDrive also allows users to search for points of interest like restaurants, theatres and shopping malls. The app also allows users to keep a record of all trips they make when using voice navigation for later reference through the 'Tirp Recorder' feature, Wikipedia information of places for which information is available and the ability to add frequently visited locations to favorites, in addition to weather information about the place.

Airtel will offer navigation at 10 per day or 99 per month. Live traffic will be cost 3 per day or 49 per month. Search and map viewer are available for free. The costs do not include data charges. Airtel states in SmartDrive's FAQ that data is only used when the user performs searches or calculates routes. The app is developed by Wisepilot, a mobile navigation solutions provider and uses Navteq Maps for location and traffic info.[35] It was launched on 12 September 2012.[36] At the time of launch, it was available only in Bangalore, Mumbai and NCR.[37] Services are currently available in Chennai.[38] Service will be expanded to Pune and Hyderabad by December 2012.

iPhone
The Apple iPhone 3G was rolled out in India in 2008 by Airtel and Vodafone. However, high prices and contract bonds discouraged consumers and it was not as successful as the iPhone is in other markets of the world. The Apple iPhone 4 was introduced on May 27, 2011 by Airtel and Aircel.

Telemedia
The Telemedia business provides services in 89 Indian cities. Until 18 September 2004, Bharti provided fixed line telephony and broadband services under the Touchtel brand. Bharti now provides all telecom services including fixed line services under a common brand "airtel". Airtel Broadband provides broadband and IPTV services. Airtel provides both capped as well as unlimited download plans. However, Airtel's unlimited plans are subject to free usage policy (FUP), which reduces speed after the customer crosses a certain data usage limit. In some plans, Airtel provides only 256kbit/s beyond FUP, which is lower than the TRAI specified limit of half the subscriber's original speed.[39][40] The maximum speed available for home users is 16Mbit/s. Airtel Broadband had about 1.37 million subscribers at the end of July 2012.[41] Airtel has about 3.16 million wireline customers, of which 42.6% are broadband internet subscribers as of August 2010. Several consumer rights websites in India Airtel Broadband service policies as one of the worst in the country. Customers are harassed in rude language if the bill is not paid on time. No information is provided by Airtel on the proper process of terminating a connection. There are several cases reported where previous customers were asked to pay bill months after terminating the connection.

Airtel Broadband Blocking TPB In May 2012, Airtel Broadband and some other Indian ISPs temporarily blocked file sharing websites such as vimeo.com megavideo.com, thepiratebay.se etc. with out giving any legal information to the customers. The block was due to a Madras High Court issued John Doe order taken by Chennai-based Copyright Lab.[42] In response to a petition filed by Vinay B, a resident of Shimoga, Karnataka, the District Consumer Disputes Redressal Forum ordered Airtel to pay 20,000 to the petitioner for "deficiency in internet service" thereby causing mental agony to the complainant. By misinterpreting the Madras High Court order, Airtel blocked entire websites. It is needless to say that the companys actions amount to deficiency in service as well as unfair trade practice, said the forum.[43][44]

Digital Television
Main article: Airtel digital TV The Digital TV business provides Direct-to-Home (DTH) TV services across India under the brand name Airtel digital TV. It started services on 9 October 2008 and has about 32.44 million customers as of August 2010.[45]

Enterprise
The Enterprise business provides end-to-end telecom solutions to corporate customers and national and international long distance services to telcos through its nationwide fiber optic backbone, last mile connectivity in fixed-line and mobile circles, VSATs, ISP and international bandwidth access through the gateways and landing stations. It has two sections under it.

Mobile data service


The different services under mobile data are BlackBerry services,a web-enabled mobile email solution working on 'Push Technology', USB modem that helps in getting instant access to Internet and corporate applications,Airtel Data Card that gives the liberty to access the internet anytime, Easy Mail is a platform that provides access to personal/corporate e-mails independent of handset operating system and application services that shorten the queues at the billing section, off-load the pressure on the billing staff and bring convenience to the user.

Enterprise business solutions


There are two kind of solutions offered by Airtel. One is GPRS Based Solutions like mobile applications tools for enterprise, TrackMate, automatic meter reading solutions etc. and the other is SMS Based Solutions like interactive sms, bulk sms, inbound call center solutions.

Android-based tablet
Beetel Teletech Ltd., a unit of Bharti Enterprises Ltd., on 18 August launched a 9,999 ($220) 7inch tablet in India based on Google Inc.'s Android operating system. The offering is intended to capitalize on the expected demand for cheap computing devices in the world's fastest-growing and second-largest mobile phone market.[46]

International Operations
Africa
Main article: Airtel Africa

Bangladesh
Main article: Airtel Bangla

Sri Lanka
Main article: Bharti Airtel Lanka

Channel Islands: Jersey and Guernsey


Main article: Airtel-Vodafone On 1 May 2007, Jersey Airtel and Guernsey Airtel, both wholly owned subsidiaries of the Bharti Group, announced they would launch mobile services in the British Crown Dependency islands of Jersey and Guernsey[47][48] under the brand name Airtel-Vodafone after signing an agreement with Vodafone. Airtel-Vodafone operates a 3G network in Jersey and Guernsey.

Subscriber Base
Bharti Airtel has about 243.336 million subscribers worldwide232.95 million in India and South Asia and 50.949 million in Africa as of the end of December 2011. The numbers include mobile services subscribers in 19 countries and Indian Telemedia services and Digital services subscribers.[4]

India

The Airtel subscriber base according to Cellular Operators Association of India (COAI) as of April 2012 was: Metros

Delhi 8,818,153 Mumbai 3,738,188 Kolkata 3,882,463 Chennai 3,388,379

"A" Circle

Andhra Pradesh 18,539,788 Gujarat 7,062,371 Karnataka 15,468,507 Maharashtra 9,968,936 Tamil Nadu 10,094,293

"B" Circle

Haryana 2,472,639 Kerala 3,574,844 Madhya Pradesh 9,728,966 Punjab 6,973,022 Rajasthan 14,546,216 Uttar Pradesh (East) 14,886,051 Uttar Pradesh (West) 6,666,880 West Bengal 9,202,693

"C" Circle

Assam 3,759,878 Bihar 17,732,686 Himachal Pradesh 1,861,569 Jammu and Kashmir 2,112,537 North Eastern States 2,351,038 Orissa 6,460,022

Airtel is the market leader in India with about 181 million subscribers in India or about 27.22% market share at the end of March 2012. The Brand Trust Report [49] published by Trust Research Advisory, places Airtel as the only mobile operator in the top 10 most trusted brands in India.

One Network
One Network is a borderless mobile phone network across all Airtel operating countries which enables customers to move freely between the countries in which Airtel operates, and be treated

as virtual local customers of the visited network in terms of pricing, while retaining their home network service functionality. One Network allows customers travelling to One Network countries to make outgoing calls/SMS at the same rates as local customers and recharge with local top-up cards or with home network top up cards while using the same number and SIM. Incoming calls however are charged at between $0.03 - 0.15 depending on the country the call is received from. Airtel offers the service currently to its Africa customers travelling to any of the following 27 countries. In 8 of these countries, the One Network is operated in partnership with other mobile operators. Airtel plans to extend the service to its South Asia and Seychelles customers soon.. S. No. Country Network 1 Burkina Faso Airtel 2 Bangladesh Airtel 3 Chad Airtel 4 Channels Islands: Jersey and Guernsey Airtel 5 Democratic Republic of the Congo Airtel 6 Gabon Airtel 7 Ghana Airtel 8 India Airtel 9 Kenya Airtel 10 Madagascar Airtel 11 Malawi Airtel 12 Niger Airtel 13 Nigeria Airtel 14 Republic of the Congo Airtel 15 Sierra Leone Airtel 16 Seychelles Airtel 17 Sri Lanka Airtel 18 Tanzania Airtel 19 Uganda Airtel 20 Bahrain Zain 21 Iraq Zain 22 Jordan Zain 23 Kuwait Zain 24 Saudi Arabia Zain 25 Sudan Zain 26 South Africa Cell C 27 Egypt Mobinil

Acquisitions and Mergers


MTN Group
In May 2008, it emerged that Bharti Airtel was exploring the possibility of buying the MTN Group, a South Africa-based telecommunications company with operations in 21 countries in Africa and the Middle East. The Financial Times reported that Bharti was considering offering US$45 billion for a 100% stake in MTN, which would be the largest overseas acquisition ever by an Indian firm. However, both sides emphasize the tentative nature of the talks. The Economist magazine noted, "If anything, Bharti would be marrying up," as MTN has more subscribers, higher revenues and broader geographic coverage.[50] However, the talks fell apart as MTN group tried to reverse the negotiations by making Bharti almost a subsidiary of the new company.[51] In May 2009, Bharti Airtel confirmed that it was again in talks with MTN and both companies agreed to discuss the potential transaction exclusively by 31 July 2009.[52] Bharti Airtel said in a statement "Bharti Airtel Ltd is pleased to announce that it has renewed its effort for a significant partnership with MTN Group".[53] The exclusivity period was extended twice up to 30 September 2009. Talks eventually ended without agreement and on 30 September 2009, Bharti released a statement saying that it had decided to disengage from discussions with the MTN Group when the exclusivity period ended. Informa analyst Matthew Reed, noted that a reported factor in the failure was South Africas worry that control of MTN, which is perceived as a national champion, could pass into foreign hands. The South African government is MTNs biggest shareholder. Bharti said in a statement regarding the failure, "We hope the South African government will review its position in the future and allow both companies an opportunity to reengage".[54]

Zain
In March 2010, Bharti struck a deal to buy the Zain's mobile operations in 15 African countries, in India's second biggest overseas acquisition after Tata Steel's $13 billion buy of Corus in 2007. Bharti Airtel completed its $10.7 billion acquisition of African operations from Kuwaiti firm, making the Airtel the world's fifth largest wireless carrier by subscriber base. Airtel has reported that its revenues for the fourth quarter of 2010 grew by 53% to US$3.2 billion compared to the previous year, newly acquired Zain Africa division contributed US$911 million to the total. However, net profits dropped by 41% from US$470 million in 2009 to US$291 million 2010 due to a US$188 million increase in radio spectrum charges in India and an increase of US$106 million in debt interest.[citation needed]

Telecom Seychelles
On August 11, 2010, Bharti Airtel announced that it would acquire 100% stake in Telecom Seychelles for US$62 million taking its global presence to 19 countries. Telecom Seychelles began operations in 1998 and operates 3G, Fixed Line, ship to shore services satellite telephony, among value added services like VSAT and Gateways for International Traffic across the

Seychelles under the Airtel brand. The company has over 57% share of the mobile market of Seychelles.[55] Airtel announced plans to invest US$10 million in its fixed and mobile telecoms network in the Seychelles over three years, whilst also participating in the Seychelles East Africa submarine cable (SEAS) project. The US$34 million SEAS project is aimed at improving the Seychelles global connectivity by building a 2,000 km undersea high speed link to Dar es Salaam in Tanzania.[56]

Joint Ventures
Airtel-Ericsson
As per a five-year managed services agreement signed recently[when?], Ericsson will manage and optimize Airtels mobile networks in Africa. Ericsson will modernize and upgrade Airtels mobile networks in Africa with the latest technology including its multi standard RBS 6000 base station. As part of the modernization, Ericsson will also provide technology consulting, network planning & design and network deployment.Ericsson has been the managed services and network technology partner in the Asian operations.[citation needed]

Rebranding
On 18 November 2010, Airtel rebranded itself in India in the first phase of a global rebranding strategy. The company unveiled a new logo with 'airtel' written in lower case. Designed by London-based brand agency, The Brand Union, the new logo is the letter 'a' in lowercase, with 'airtel' written in lowercase under the logo.[57] On 23 November 2010, Airtel's Africa operations were rebranded to 'airtel'. Sri Lanka followed on 28 November 2010 and on 20 December 2010, Warid Telecom rebranded to 'airtel' in Bangladesh.

Sponsorship
On 9 May 2009 Airtel signed a major deal with Manchester United. As a result of the deal, Airtel gets the rights to broadcast the matches played by the team to its customers. Bharti Airtel signed a five-year deal with ESPN Star Sports to become the title sponsor of the Champions League Twenty20 cricket tournament. But now the deal is terminated and Nokia is sponsoring Champions League Twenty20 cricket."[58] Airtel, also signed a deal to be title sponsor the inaugural Formula One Indian Grand Prix during the 2011 season.[59]

Signature Tune
The signature tune of Airtel is composed by Indian musician A. R. Rahman. The tune became hugely popular and is the world's most downloaded mobile music with over 150 million

downloads.[60] A new version of the song was released on 18 November 2010, as part of the rebranding of the company.[60][61] This version too was composed by Rahman himself.[61]

Green Initiative
GreenTowers P7 program Bharti Infratel is the only telecom tower company, which has installed almost 3 MWT of solar capacity on their network, generating more than 5 mn units of electricity every year. The Green Towers P7 program is scoped for 22,000 tower sites (primarily rural areas having low or no Grid Power availability) out of which 5,500 sites have already been implemented in the first year as a part of this 3-year program.[62][63][64] Once completed, the initiative will reduce diesel consumption by 66 mn litres per year with a significant carbon dioxide reduction of around 1.5 lac MT per year. Bharti Infratel bagged the 2011 'Green Mobile Award ' at the GSMA Mobile World Congress at Barcelona and was also awarded the 2010 innovative infrastructure company of the year award at the CNBC Infrastructure Awards for this groundbreaking initiative. Bharti remains the first company in the world to introduce the practice of sharing of passive infrastructure by collaborating with their competition to share mobile towers and to reduce the collective carbon footprint of the industry. This has become a subject of case studies in institutions including the Harvard Business School.[citation needed] Energy conservation The company has installed solar hot water generator at its main campus in Gurgaon for fulfilling the hot water requirement in the cafeteria. Majority of its facilities across NCR region are now equipped with LES (Lighting Energy Savers) which have reduced energy consumption in the lighting system to the tune of 1025%. Variable Frequency Drives installed in AHU (Air Handling Unit) at its campus have helped in enhancing the efficiency of cooling system by 10%. These measures have resulted in a total saving of 8.5 lakh units of electricity per year. Airtel has embarked upon technology related initiatives like virtualization of servers that has helped it release over 500 CPUs. Also the drive of sending e-bills to the post-paid customers is helping save 12,840 trees annually. Within its campus the Secure Print Solution' an automated queue management based secured printing solution has led to an annualized saving of about 8 metric tonnes of paper.

Alternate energy sources such as solar energy used at 1050 sites saving 6.9 mn litres of diesel and approximately 280 million.[63] Energy efficiency measures such as Integrated Power Management Systems and variable speed DC generators have resulted in reduction in the rate of diesel consumption by 1.2 mn litres, leading to savings of 47 million across 900 sites.[63] Demand side management like Free Cooling Units (FCU) instead of air con

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