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Company Facts - Bharti Airtel

Registered Address

Bharti Cresent,
1, Nelson Mandela Road,,Vasant Kunj,
New Delhi
Delhi
110070

Tel: 011-46666100 011-46666500
Fax: 011-46666137 011-41666149
Email: compliance.officer@bharti.in
Website: http://www.airtel.in
Group: Bharti Group

Registrars

Karvy Computershare Private Ltd. Plot No.17-24,
Vittalrao Nagar,
Madhapur Hyderabad - 500081
Andhra Pradesh

Tel: 040-23420815, 23420816, 23420817, 23420818
Fax: 040-23420814
Email: einward.ris@karvy.com
Website: http://www.karvy.com

Management - Bharti Airtel

Name	Designation
Sunil Bharti Mittal	Chairman & Managing Director
Craig Ehrlich	Director
Rajan Bharti Mittal	Director
Tsun-yan Hsieh	Director
Chua Sock Koong	Director
N Kumar	Director
Tan Yong Choo	Director
Obiageli Katryn Ezekwesili	Ind.& Non Exe.Director

Name	Designation
Manoj Kohli	Joint Managing Director & CEO
Nikesh Arora	Director
H E Salim Ahmed Salim	Director
Ajay Lal	Director
Lord Evan Mervyn Davies	Director
Pulak Prasad	Director
Manish Kejriwal	Ind.& Non Exe.Director

Source : Dion Global Solutions Limited

                            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.It is the largest cellular service provider in India, with 186.41 million subscribers as of October 2012. 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. 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. Its network—base stations, microwave links, etc.—is maintained by Ericsson, Nokia Siemens Network and Huawei,and business support is provided by IBM, and transmission towers are maintained by another company (Bharti Infratel Ltd. in India). 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). During the last financial year (2009–10), 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.                                                                 

Organizational Structure:

                      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 in-charges 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:

 Airtel is the first 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:
  • 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.

Airtel operates in the following countries:

Country	Site	Remarks
Bangladesh	Airtel Bangladesh	Airtel Bangladesh had about 5.1 million customers at the end of June 2011.[14]
Burkina Faso	Airtel Burkina Faso	Airtel Burkina Faso is the dominant player with 1,433,000 customers representing 50% market share.[15]
Chad	Airtel Chad	Airtel Chad is the #1 operator with 69% market share.[15]
Democratic Republic of the Congo	Airtel DRC	Airtel is the market leader with almost 5 million customers at the end of 2010.
Gabon	Airtel Gabon	Airtel Gabon has 829,000 customers and its market share stood at 61%.[16]
Ghana	Airtel Ghana	Airtel Ghana had about 1.76 million customers at the end of 2010.[17]
India	Airtel	Airtel is the market leader with almost 183.5 million customers at the end of 2010.
Kenya	Airtel Kenya	Airtel Kenya is the second largest operator and has 4 million customers.[18]
Madagascar	Airtel Madagascar	Airtel holds second place in the mobile telecom market in Madagascar, has a 39% market share and over 1.4 million customers.[15]
Malawi	Airtel Malawi	Airtel Malawi is the market leader with a market share of 72%.[15]
Niger	Airtel Niger	Airtel Niger is the market leader with a 68% market share.[15]
Nigeria	Airtel Nigeria
Republic of the Congo	Airtel Congo B	Airtel Congo is the market leader with a 55% market share.[15]
Rwanda	Airtel Rwanda	Airtel launched services in Rwanda on 30 March 2012.[19]
Seychelles	Airtel Seychelles	Airtel is the leading comprehensive telecommunications services providers with over 55% market share of mobile market in Seychelles.[20]
Sierra Leone	Airtel Sierra Leone
Sri Lanka	Airtel Sri Lanka	Airtel Sri Lanka commenced operations on 12 January 2009. It had about 1.8 million mobile customers at the end of 2010.[17]
Tanzania	Airtel Tanzania	Airtel Tanzania is the market leader with a 38% market share.[15]
Uganda	Airtel Uganda	Airtel Uganda stands as the #2 operator with a market share of 38%.[15]
Zambia	Airtel Zambia	Airtel Zambia is the market leader with 69% market share.
Channel Islands† :  Jersey  Guernsey	Airtel Vodafone	Airtel operates in the Channel Islands under the brand name Airtel–Vodafone through an agreement with Vodafone.

†Jersey and Guernsey are British Crown Dependencies. They are not independent countries. Therefore, Airtel's countries of operation is considered to be 20.