Monday, August 22, 2011

Bharti Airtel Ltd.

About Company:-
Bharti Airtel is one of India's leading private sector providers of telecommunications services based on an aggregate of 82,748,790 customers as of October 31, 2008, consisting of 80,199,747 GSM mobile and 2,549,043 Telemedia customers. The company is the largest GSM mobile service provider in the country, based on the number of customers; it has an all India footprint, with mobile operations in all the 23 licensed jurisdictions (also known as
Telecom Circles). The company also offers an integrated suite of telecom solutions to its enterprise customers, in addition to providing long distance connectivity both nationally and internationally. The company has recently forayed into media by launching its DTH Services in October 2008. All these services are rendered under a unified brand “Airtel”.

The company also deploys, owns and manages passive infrastructure pertaining to telecom operations under its subsidiary Bharti Infratel Limited. Bharti Infratel owns 42% of Indus Towers Limited.
Bharti Infratel and Indus Towers are the two top providers of passive infrastructure services in India.

Partners:-Partners
Mobile Services:-                     Nokia, Ericsson, Huawei Network Equipment
Telemedia Services:-               Siemens, Nortel, Wipro, Cisco
Information Technology:-       IBM
Call Centre Operations:-         IBM Daksh, Hinduja TMT, Teleperformance
                                                                Mphasis, Firstsource & Nortel
Equity Partner {Strategic} :-Singtel

Board of Directors:-
Sunil Bharti Mittal                  Chairman and Managing Director
Manoj Kohli                                           Joint Managing Director
Akhil Gupta                                            Non Executive Director
Chua Sock Koong                   Non Executive Director
Paul O’Sullivan                       Non Executive Director
Quah Kung Yang                     Non Executive Director
Rajan Bharti Mittal                                 Non Executive Director
Rakesh Bharti Mittal              Non Executive Director
Kurt Hellstrom                       Independent Non Executive Director
Ajay Lal                                  Independent Non Executive Director
Arun Bharat Ram                    Independent Non Executive Director
Bashir Abdulla Currimjee       Independent Non Executive Director
Mauro Sentinelli                     Independent Non Executive Director
N.Kumar                                                 Independent Non Executive Director
Nikesh Arora                          Independent Non Executive Director
Pulak Chandan Prasad            Independent Non Executive Director

Exchange Listings:-gs
The Stock Exchange, Mumbai (BSE)
The National Stock Exchange Of India Limited (NSE)

Few Key Milestones:-
Date of Incorporation                                                             July 07, 1995
First private operator to offer fixed line telephony                June 04, 1998
Became a public limited company in India                             February 18, 2002
First telecom company to have an all India mobile
Footprint(Presence in all 23 telecom circles in India)            March 30, 2005