'Bharti Airtel Limited\r'

'Bharti Airtel hold, commonly known as Airtel, is an Indian multinational telecommunications dish outs union headquartered at New Delhi, India. It operates in 20 countries across atomic number 16 Asia, Africa and the Channel Islands. Airtel has GSM web in all countries in which it operates, providing 2G, 3G and 4G services depending upon the country of operation. Airtel is the worlds third largest nimble telecommunications troupe with over 261 million subscribers across 150 countries as of August 2012. [4] It is the largest cellular service provider in India, with 183. 1 million subscribers as of November 2012. [5] Airtel is the third largest in-country mobile operator by subscriber ignorant, behind mainland China brisk and China Unicom. Airtel is the largest provider of mobile cry set and second largest provider of fixed telephony in India, and is also a provider of broadband and subscription video recording services. It offers its telecom services under the airtel brand, and is headed by Sunil Bharti Mittal. Bharti Airtel is the offset Indian telecom service provider to deliver the goods Cisco Gold Certification. 6] It also acts as a carrier for national and international long outperform communication services.\r\nThe order has a submarine stemma landing station at Chennai, which connects the submarine cable television connecting Chennai and Singapore. Airtel is credited with pioneering the backup strategy of outsourcing all of its business trading operations except marketing, sales and finance and expression the ‘minutes factory model of commencement cost and senior high volumes. The strategy has since been copied by several operators. [7] Its networkâ€base stations, microwave links, etc. is maintained by Ericsson and Nokia entropy Network[8] whereas business support is provided by IBM,[9] and transmission towers argon maintained by another company (Bharti Infratel Ltd. in India). [10] Ericsson agreed for the starting signal time to be paying by the minute for installation and maintenance of their equipment quite a than being paid up front, which allowed Airtel to provide low call rates of INR1/minute (US$0. 02/minute). [11] During the last financial year (2009â€10), Bharti negotiated for its strategic startner Alcatel-Lucent to manage the network infrastructure for the tele-media business.\r\nOn 31 may 2012, Bharti Airtel awarded the three-year promise to Alcatel-Lucent for setting up an Internet Protocol feeler network (mobile backhaul) across the country. This would help consumers access internet at faster speed and high caliber internet browsing on mobile handsets. [12] Sunil Mittal founded the Bharti Group. In 1983, Mittal was in an agreement with Germanys Siemens to manufacture push-button tele think models for the Indian market. In 1986, Mittal incorporated Bharti Telecom Limited (BTL), and his company became the prototypal in India to offer push-button telephones, establishing the s eat of Bharti Enterprises.\r\nBy the early 1990s, Sunil Mittal had also launched the countrys first autotype machines and its first cordless telephones. In 1992, Mittal won a bid to build a cellular phone network in Delhi. In 1995, Mittal incorporated the cellular operations as Bharti Tele-Ventures and launched service in Delhi. In 1996, cellular service was extended to Himachal Pradesh. In 1999, Bharti Enterprises acquired ascendency of JT Holdings, and extended cellular operations to Karnataka and Andhra Pradesh.\r\nIn 2000, Bharti acquired view as of Skycell Communications, in Chennai. In 2001, the company acquired control of spice up Cell in Calcutta. Bharti Enterprises went public in 2002, and the company was listed on Bombay line of descent Exchange and National Stock Exchange of India. In 2003, the cellular phone operations were rebranded under the single Airtel brand. In 2004, Bharti acquired control of Hexacom and entered Rajasthan. In 2005, Bharti extended its network to Andaman and Nicobar. This expansion allowed it to offer articulatio services all across India.\r\nIn 2009, Airtel launched its first international mobile network in Sri Lanka. In 2010, Airtel acquired the African operations of the Kuwait based Zain Telecom. In March 2012, Airtel launched a mobile operation in Rwanda. [13] On 26 February 2013, Airtel announced that it had deployed Ericsson’s Mobile Broadband Charging (MBC) solution and completely modernized its prepaid services for its subscribers in India. As a part of the deal, Ericsson’s multi service MBC suite allows prepaid customers to birth personalized profile based information charging plans.\r\nprepaid customers will be able to customize their data plans across mobility, fixed line and broadband by cross bundling across multiple domains (2G, 3G, 4G/LTE & angstrom unit; Wi-Fi). It will also offer flexible multi service charging in geographical redundant mode, making Airtel the first operator to implemen t geographical redundancy at such a large scale. [14] In May 2013, Bharti Infotel paid Rs 50,000 as compensation to a customer â€Å"for unfair trade practices”. The customer alleged that the company continued to aggressively demand payment disrespect customer requests for disconnection of service. [15]\r\n'