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Emerges as the 4th largest in-country mobile operator in the world

New Delhi, August 17, 2008: Bharti Airtel Limited today announced that its customer base had crossed the 75 million customers mark making it the largest integrated telecom company in India. The subscriber figure includes customers from all business units of the company – mobile services, telemedia services and enterprise services.

With 72.07 million mobile customers as of end of July 2008, Bharti Airtel further cemented in position as the 4th largest in-country mobile operator in the world. The company had achieved this distinction as of end of June 2008 and is well positioned to become the largest wireless operator in the world outside of China.

Commenting on this landmark for the company Mr. Manoj Kohli, CEO and Jt. MD, Bharti Airtel said, “We are happy to have achieved this milestone of being the largest integrated telco in the country, in customer terms. For us, the benchmark of real leadership is customer delight and would like to thank all our customers for placing their faith in us.”

“For Bharti Airtel, it has been a journey of constant innovations and ensuring customer satisfaction through world-class services. Going forward, it will be our endeavour to reinforce the journey towards becoming the most admired brand in India by 2010, loved by more customers, targeted by top talent and benchmarked by more businesses.” he added.

Company In-country Wireless Subs
June 2008 July 2008
China Mobile 414.5 million NA
China Unicom 170.7 million NA
AT&T 72.9 million NA
Bharti Airtel 69.4 million 72.07 million
Verizon 68.7 million NA

The company had crossed the 60 million customer mark in February 2008 and the 50 million customers mark in October 2007 making it one of the fastest growing telcos in the world.

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About Bharti Airtel Limited:

Bharti Airtel Limited, a group company of Bharti Enterprises, is India’s leading integrated telecom services provider with an aggregate of 75 million customers. Bharti Airtel has been rated among the best performing companies in the world in the BusinessWeek IT 100 list 2007.

Bharti Airtel is structured into three strategic business units - Mobile services, Telemedia services and Enterprise services. The mobile business provides mobile & fixed wireless services using GSM technology across 23 telecom circles. The Telemedia business provides broadband & telephone services in 94 cities and is foraying into the IPTV and DTH segments. The Enterprise business provides 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 78,540 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. For more information, visit www.bhartiairtel.in

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