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Bharti Airtel is the “Best Emerging Market Carrier” - Telecom Asia Awards 2007
New Delhi, April 24, 2007: Bharti Airtel, India’s leading telecom services provider has been awarded the “Best Emerging Market Carrier” in the Telecom Asia Awards 2007. The Awards now in its tenth year are the most prestigious honours program in the Asian telecommunications sector. Bharti Airtel was selected amongst an impressive list of 30 telecom companies from the Asia Pacific region. In the past Bharti Airtel had won the ‘Best Indian Carrier’ for two consecutive years - 2005 & 2006 respectively.

Mr. Manoj Kohli, President & CEO, Bharti Airtel Limited, said, “The Indian telecom market is setting new benchmarks every day. As a leader in the telecom space, we feel proud to have led that success. In a highly competitive market, being recognized as the ‘Best Emerging Market Carrier’ is an honour indeed. This recognition is testimony to our commitment towards our valued customers, our stakeholders, and our various partners who are aligned with us in this success.”

The “Telecom Asia Awards” recognizes the achievements of mobile operators in various categories. The award winners were chosen for their combined financial, market and technology strengths based on financial analysis and assessments by a 15-member judging panel. The judges were backed by a research team at IDC, and using a combination of its extensive communications research in Asia/Pacific and financial analysis of the carriers.
 


About Telecom Asia
Telecom Asia is Asia's largest regional telecom publishing group. It publishes the magazines Telecom Asia, Wireless Asia and Charged, and the website www.telecomasia.net, aimed at telecommunications professionals around the region.

About Bharti Airtel Limited:
Bharti Airtel Limited, a group company of Bharti Enterprises, is one of India’s leading private sector providers of telecommunications services with an aggregate of 39.02 million customers as of end of March ‘07, consisting of 37.14 million mobile customers. Bharti Airtel has been rated among 10 best performing companies in the world in the BusinessWeek IT 100 list.

Bharti Airtel is structured into three strategic business units - Mobile services, Broadband & Telephone (B&T) services and Enterprise services. The mobile business provides mobile & fixed wireless services using GSM technology across 23 telecom circles. The B&T business provides broadband & telephone services in 94 cities. The Enterprise services provide end-to-end telecom solutions to corporate customers and national & international long distance services to carriers. All these services are provided under the Airtel brand.

Airtel’s high-speed optic fibre network currently spans over 39,000 kms covering all the major cities in the country. The company has two international landing stations in Chennai that connects two submarine cable systems - i2i to Singapore and SEA-ME-WE-4 to Europe.