Bharti Airtel

SingTel's regional mobile subscriber base grows to 172 million

admin — Mon, 04 Feb 2008 13:25:51 +0000

Bharti breaks previous records for quarterly subscriber growth

Singapore, 4 February 2008 -- Singapore Telecommunications Limited (SingTel) today announced that the Group’s combined mobile subscriber base in the region has reached 171.54 million as at 31 December 2007.

Its mobile subscriber base in the eight markets – Australia, Bangladesh, India, Indonesia, Pakistan, the Philippines, Singapore and Thailand – went up by 53 per cent from 112.28 million customers a year ago. The latest figure was boosted by the addition of Warid Telecom’s 13.21 million subscribers in Pakistan in the quarter.

Record net-adds propelled Bharti’s subscriber base past 50-million mark

Bharti, the largest regional mobile associate in terms of the number of mobile subscribers, continued to grow exponentially. It broke its previous net additions records by attracting 6.29 million mobile subscribers in the quarter. As at 31 December 2007, it has enlarged its total subscriber base to 55.16 million mobile subscribers.

Continued healthy subscriber growth from other markets » read more »

Jersey Airtel brings Vodafone to the island as Airtel-Vodafone

admin — Thu, 03 May 2007 12:55:25 +0000

Jersey Airtel, a wholly owned subsidiary of the Bharti Group, has today announced it will launch its mobile services on the Island of Jersey under the brand name “Airtel-Vodafone” after signing an agreement with Vodafone, the world’s leading mobile telecommunications group. The agreement will see Vodafone’s leading global products and services available on the island for the very first time.

Customers of Airtel-Vodafone will be able to benefit from a range of Vodafone services, tailored to the needs of Jersey customers, both at home and when traveling in the UK and across the world, including Vodafone Passport, a simple roaming price plan. Airtel-Vodafone services will also include a mobile multimedia service; Vodafone Simply, a straightforward voice and data package and the Vodafone Mobile Connect Card for laptops which makes possible wireless internet access. These Vodafone products, together with other exciting services, will be brought to customers in Jersey by Airtel on a phased basis from launch.

In addition, business customers stand to benefit from a range of competitive corporate devices and services, including BlackBerry from Vodafone. » read more »

Airtel brings BlackBerry 8800 Smartphone to India

admin — Thu, 22 Mar 2007 11:43:19 +0000

BlackBerry 8800 is a standout mobile solution for business professionals

Airtel and Research In Motion (RIM) today introduced the sleek, elegant and performance-driven BlackBerry® 8800 - a powerful, feature-rich smartphone that delivers best-in-class technology in a thin and stylish design. At only 14mm deep, the BlackBerry 8800 is the thinnest BlackBerry handset yet. Priced at Rs.31,990/, it is now available from Airtel.

The quad-band and EDGE-enabled BlackBerry 8800 incorporates built-in GPS (Global Positioning System) – a first-of-its-kind for BlackBerry smartphones in India – a full QWERTY keyboard, RIM’s new trackball system for fast and intuitive navigation, a media player, and a microSD expandable memory slot for storing music and videos.

BlackBerry 8800

The BlackBerry 8800 also offers many proven and popular features, including support for phone, email, text and instant messaging, web browser, organiser, multimedia, corporate data applications and more. » read more »

Bharti Airtel Announces Strategic Managerial Changes

admin — Wed, 14 Mar 2007 10:43:31 +0000

New Delhi -- Bharti Airtel, the Indian telecom conglomerate, announced a major initiative for leadership and growth across the organization in India as well as its overseas ventures.

Mr. Manoj Kohli, President, Bharti Airtel Limited said, “Our journey towards becoming the most admired brand and institutionalizing 'One Airtel’ necessitates that we leverage our learnings across the organization not only in India but also in our new overseas ventures. The formation of a new structure is the result of the organization’s objective to transition high performers across businesses and provide them with larger responsibilities. I am confident that through these changes in the leadership teams we will enable Bharti Airtel to take a quantum leap in setting ‘best in class’ performance parameters both in India as well as overseas and become a top talent destination”

In alignment with the company’s growth both in India and its new international ventures the following changes in the Leadership team will come into effect from April 1, 2007. » read more »