Bharti Airtel Limited, the company's existence was marked in the year 1995. It is a leading Indian telecommunication service provider through three strategic business units namely Mobile Services, Broadband & Telephone Services and Enterprise Services. The company has started with providing mobile service to single circle entity and now it grown to offer services to all 23 telecom circles of India. One of the largest integrated private telecom service providers with an all India mobile footprint, through a combination of organic and inorganic growth.

During the year 1997-98 Bharti Airtel Ltd becomes the first private telecom operator to obtain a license to provide basic telephone services in the state of Madhya Pradesh and in the same period the company forms Bharti BT VSAT Ltd., focused on providing VAST solutions across India and Bharti BT Internet Ltd. The company acquired JT Mobiles, cellular services operator in Punjab, Karnataka and Andhra Pradesh and becomes the largest private telecom operator in India during the period of 1999-2000. Also expands its South Indian footprint by acquiring Skycell, Chennai. The company acquired a 30.20% equity interest of Telecom Italia in Bharti Telenet and 18.8% from Bharti Telecom thereby making Bharti Telenet a 100% subsidiary of Bharti Tele-Ventures.

BTVL also holds an effective 74% equity in Bharti Mobile and 100% equity in Bharti Cellular. Bharti Telenet has entered into license agreements to provide fixed-line services in the Haryana, Delhi, Tamil Nadu and Karnataka Circles. Airtel launched IndiaOne, India's first private sector national and international long distance service in the year of 2001-02. The company incorporated India's first private submarine cable landing station with joint venture from SingTel in the same year. In 2002-03 the company made a brief corporate restructuring by merging all the mobile operations into Bharti Cellular Limited and all fixed line, long distance and data services into Bharat Infotel Limited. Bharti Airtel made a historic strategic partnership with IBM and Ericsson for outsourcing the company's core IT and network activities and also launched Blackberry wireless solution India, as a result of an exclusive tie-up with Research in Motion (RIM). BTVL's two subsidiaries Bharti Cellular Ltd and Bharti Infotel Ltd have been merged with the company in the year of 2004.

Subsequently Bharti Broadband Ltd and Satcom Broadband Equipment Ltd has become the subsidiaries of the company after the above said merger. During the year 2005 Bharti Airtel Ltd expand its wing to Rajasthan and North East Circles also by the acquisition of Bharti Hexacom, which owns Licenses to operate cellular services in the Rajasthan and North East Circles. Bharti Airtel Ltd noted as 'Indian Mobile Operator of the Year 2005' by Asian Mobile News, became the top-most Telecom Company and was featured amongst the top three companies across the sectors in the ET 500 published in June 2005 and the company Introduced Stock and Portfolio Tracker on the mobile in association with the Bombay Stock Exchange, it was the first of its kind. The agreement was emerged with Ericsson and the company in 2005-06 to provide managed services and expands its GSM/GPRS network into rural India in 15 circles under managed capacity expansion.

During the year 2006-07 Bharti Airtel has entered into agreement with Microsoft to offer software and services for the Small and Medium business market in India. The company also has an agreement with Google to offer services on Airtel Mobile. Also an agreement with Adani Group to connect Mundra Port and special Economic Zone. A Three year contract with Nokia at an estimated value of US$400 million to expand its managed GSM/GPRS/EDGE networks in eight Airtel circles and deploy a pan India WAP solution across its networks.The company was conferred many awards during the year 2006-07, such as Best Indian Carrier Award in the Telecom Asia Awards 2006, Wireless Service Provider of the year and the competitive Service Provider of the year award in the Telecom Asia Awards 2006, Most Preferred Cellular Service Provider Award in the telecom category for the year 2006 at the Awaaz Consumer Awards 2006, MIS Asia II Excellence Award 2006 for Best Knowledge Management, Most Customer Responsive Telecom Company in India by the Avaya-Economic Times Global Connect Awards and Nasscom IT Innovation Award for the Business Model Innovation for the year 2006. The company received a letter of offer from Telecommunications Regulatory Commission of Sri Lanka to provide 2G and 3G mobile services in Sri Lanka on January 2007.

This was the first international operation of the company. Bharti Airtel introduced the Blackberry 8800 business phone in March 2007. Bharti Airtel and GSM Association launched the Global money transfer pilot project in India. This initiative enable 25 million of NRI's to remit their money to India through mobile phones. During the year 2007, the company also incorporated Bharti Airtel (USA) Ltd, Bharti Airtel (UK) Ltd, Bharti Airtel (Canada) Ltd, Bharti Airtel (Hongkong) Ltd as a wholly owned subsidiary of the company for providing international calling services and wholesale voice switching and data products in the respective countries. Bharti Infratel Ltd has been incorporated as a wholly owned subsidiary with an initial investment of Rs.500000 and also acquired the Submarine Network Cable System from Network i2i by way of purchase of all the assets or equity for an overall consideration of US$110 million. In August of the same year Wal-mart formally marked its entry into India by signing two agreements with Bharti Enterprises. During January 2008, the company has signed a MoU with VeriSign, Inc agreed to form a strategic market partnership for jointly launch best-in-class security services, to deliver VeriSign's identity protection, managed security and fraud detection services, and to support the development of the next-generation Internet infrastructure in the Indian market.

The company has achieved the 60 million-customer marks on February 2008. This landmark has catapulted Bharti Airtel into the club of top mobile operators in the world in terms of subscriber base. The 60 million-customer base covers mobile as well as fixed line and broadband customers. Bharti Airtel has overtaken State-run Bharat Sanchar Nigam Ltd as the largest National Long Distance (NLD) service provider in terms of revenue, amount of Rs 709 crore. The company has joined hands with five international companies including Internet giant Google, Global Transit, KDDI Corporation, Pacnet and SingTel have formed the Unity Bandwidth Consortium which will together invest about $300 million to construct the new high-bandwidth, sub-sea cable system linking the US and Japan. As on March 2008, Bharti Airtel and Micro Technologies India have tied up to offer micro lost mobile tracking system to secure the mobile handsets of Airtel subscribers. As on May 2008, in a bid to gain quicker foothold into the rural areas, Bharti Airtel has formed a joint venture with IFFCO, which will offer customized mobile services to a target base of 55 million farmers across the country. Bharti Airtel Ltd is amongst the fastest growing telecom companies in the world and its moving to attain the position of most admired brand in India with the three domains as loved by more customers, targeted by top talent and benchmarked by more business.

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