Type  Founded  Headquarters  Founder  Key People  Products  Area Served

Private 7th Of July 1995 New Delhi ( India ) Sunil Bharti Mittal Sunil Mittal (Chairman/M.D.) Sanjay Kapoor (C.E.O.) Wireless Telephone Internet Satellite T.V. Asian & African Countries

 Revenue  Operating Income  Net Income  Total Assets  Employees  Parent

US$ 7.254 billion (2009) US$ 2.043 billion (2009) US$ 1.662 billion (2009) US$ 11.853 billion (2009 25,543 (2009) Bharti Enterprises (63.04%) SingTel (32.04%) Vodaphone (4.4%)

 Bharti Airtel Limited Particularly known as Bharti Tele Ventures ltd. is an Indian company offering telecommunications service in 19 countries.  It is the largest cellular service provider in India with more than 140 Million Subscriptions as of July 2010.

Bharti Airtel is the world's third largest, singlesingle-country mobile operator and fifth largest telecom operator in the world with a subscriber base of over 180 million. It also offers fixed line services and broadband services. It offers its telecom services under the Airtel brand and is Mittal. headed by Sunil Bharti Mittal. Sunil The company also provides land-line landtelephone services and broadband Internet access (DSL) in over 96 cities in India. It also acts as a carrier for national and international long distance communication services.

 Bharti Airtel is the first Indian telecom service provider to achieve this Cisco Gold Certification.  To earn Gold Certification, Bharti Airtel had to meet rigorous standards for networking competency, service, support and customer Cisco. satisfaction set forth by Cisco.  The company also has a submarine cable landing station at Chennai, which connects the submarine cable connecting Chennai and Singapore. Singapore.

It is known for being the first mobile phone company in the world to outsource everything except marketing and sales and finance. Its network (base stations, microwave links, etc.) is maintained by Ericsson and Nokia Siemens Network, business support by IBM and transmission towers by another company. 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. This enables the company to provide pan-India phone call rates of Rs. 1/minute (U$0.02/minute).

The company is structured into four strategic business units - Mobile, Telemedia, Enterprise and Digital TV. The TV. mobile business offers services in 18 countries across the Indian Subcontinent and Africa. The Telemedia Africa. business provides broadband, IPTV and telephone services in 89 Indian cities. cities. The Digital TV business provides Direct-to-Home TV Direct-toservices across India. The Enterprise business provides India. end-toend-to-end telecom solutions to corporate customers and national and international long distance services to telcos. telcos.On August 11, 2010, Bharti Airtel announced that 11, 2010, it would acquire 100% stake in Telecom Seychelles 100% taking its global presence to 19 countries.

 Globally, Bharti Airtel is the 3rd largest in-country

mobile operator by subscriber base, behind China Mobile and China Unicom. In India, the company has a 30.7% share of the wireless services market.
 In January 2010, company announced that Manoj

Kohli, Joint Managing Director and current Chief Executive Officer of Indian and South Asian operations, will become the Chief Executive Officer of the International Business Group from 1 April 2010. He will be overseeing Bharti's overseas business. Current Dy. CEO, Sanjay Kapoor, will replace Manoj Kohli and will be the CEO, effective from 1 April 2010.

Airtel is the 5th largest mobile operator in the world in terms of subscriber base and has a commercial presence in 19 countries. Its area of operations include

Three countries in Bangladesh Srilanka.

Indian

Subcontinent

:India

Sixteen countries in Africa :BurkinaFaso/Chad/ Democratic Republic of Congo/ Gabon / Ghana / Kenya / Republic of the Congo / Malavyi / Madagascar / Niger / Seychelles / Sierra Leone / Tanzania / Zambia / Uganda/ Nigeria.

Airtel owns 70 % of Warid Telecom in Bangladesh through a joint venture. Bharti Airtel Limited will take management control of the company and its board, and will relaunch the company's services under its own Airtel brand. The Bangladesh Telecommunication Regulatory Commission approved the deal on January 4, 2010.

Mobile Services
Airtel is the name of the company's mobile services brand. It operates in 19 brand. countries. It is the 5th largest mobile operator in the world in terms of countries. subscriber base. Airtel's network consists of 3G and 2G services depending on base. the country of operation. operation.

Airtel in India
 In India, the company's mobile service is branded as India, Airtel. It has nationwide presence and is the market leader with a market share of 30.07% (as of May 2010).  On 19 October 2004, Airtel announced the launch of a Blackberry Wireless Solution in India. The launch is a result of a tie-up between Bharti Tele-Ventures Limited tieTeleand Research In Motion (RIM).  The Apple iPhone 3G was rolled out in India on 22 August 2008 by Airtel & Vodafone. Both the cellular Vodafone. service providers rolled out their Apple iPhone 3GS in the first quarter of 2010. However, high prices and contract bonds discouraged consumers and it was not as successful for both the service providers as much as the iPhone is successful in other markets of the world.

On May 18, 2010, 3G spectrum auction was completed and Airtel will have to pay the Indian government Rs. 12,295 crores for spectrum in 13 circles, the most amount spent by an operator in this auction. Airtel won 3G licenses in 13 telecom circles of India: Delhi, Mumbai, Andhra Pradesh, Karnataka, Tamil Nadu, Uttar Pradesh (West), Rajasthan, West Bengal, Himachal Pradesh, Bihar, Assam, North East, Jammu & Kashmir. Bharti Airtel CEO for South Asia Sanjay Kapoor said that he believes that 3G services would go live in some parts of the country before the end of 2010.

Airtel in Srilanka
 In December 2008, Bharti Airtel rolled out 3.5G services in Sri Lanka in association with Singapore Telecommunications. Airtel's operation in Sri Lanka, known as Airtel Lanka, commenced operations on the 12th of January 2009.  Airtel Lanka has 1.4 million mobile customers in Sri Lanka, across 20 administrative districts.

Airtel in Bangladesh
In January 2010, it was announced that the Bangladesh Telecommunications Regulatory Commission (BTRC) had given Bharti Airtel the go ahead to acquire a 70% stake in the Bangladesh business of Abu Dhabi based Warid Telecom. The latter had till date invested a total of $600 million, with plans to bring their Bangladesh investments to the $1 billion mark. Airtel's 70% stake in the company is said to be at a cost of an initial $300 million. The service is being operated under the brand name Warid Telecom. Warid Telecom covers the entire country and has over 2.5 million customers.

Airtel in Africa
 On 14, February 2010 a statement issued by Zain Ghana, said "the Board of Directors of Kuwait's Zain Group, after its meeting on February 14, 2010, issued a resolution to accept a proposal received from Bharti Airtel Limited (Bharti) to enter into exclusive discussions until 25 March 2010, regarding the sale of its African unit, Zain Africa BV.  The offer was for $10.7 billion. The deal would provide Bharti access to 15 more countries in the region, adding around 40.1 million subscribers to its already 125 millionmillionplus user base. The combined revenue of the two entities would be around $12 billion.

The deal ran into hurdles after the government of the of Gabon had come out against the deal, but later approved the sale. The government of Congo Republic had also said Bharti-Zain deal broke law. There was also a dispute about minority ownership of Zain's operations in Nigeria, the biggest market in the deal. Minority shareholder Econet was seeking to overturn a 2006 deal by Zain - then called Celtel - in which it bought a majority stake in Nigerian mobile operator Vee Networks Ltd, now Zain Nigeria. On 8, June 2010, Bharti said the Nigeria ownership dispute had been settled.

On 8, June 2010, Bharti Airtel, in the largest ever telecom takeover by an Indian firm, completed a deal to buy Kuwait-based Zain Telecom's businesses in 15 African countries for $10.7 billion. The transaction is the largest ever cross-border deal in an emerging market and will result in combined revenues of about $13 billion." The overall integration should be complete by the end of this financial year.

 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.

Enterprise
The Enterprise business provides endendtoto-end telecom solutions to corporate customers and national and international long distance services to Telco's through its nationwide fiber optic backbone, last mile connectivity in fixed-line and mobile circles, fixedVSATs, ISP and international bandwidth access through the gateways and landing stations.

 In May 2009, Bharti Airtel again confirmed that it is in Talks with MTN and companies have now agreed discuss the potential transaction exclusively by July 31, 2009.

 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".

 Talks eventually ended without agreement, due to the South African government opposition.

Sponsorship
 On May 9, 2009 Airtel signed a major deal with Manchester United Football Club. 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. The tournament itself is named "Airtel Champions League Twenty20."