The Hindu Business Line : Bharti Airtel’s customer base crosses 75 m

New Delhi, Aug. 17 Bharti Airtel Ltd has announced that its customer base has crossed the 75-million 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.

Bharti Airtel is now behind China Mobile, China Unicom and American AT&T in terms of subscriber base, a release said.

The subscriber figure includes customers from all business units of the company — mobile services, telemedia services and enterprises services — the statement said. The mobile services division has a customer base of 72.07 million as of July 2008, it added.

The mobile business provides mobile and fixed wireless services using GSM technology across 23 telecom circles.

Bharti Airtel’s Chief Executive Officer and Joint Managing Director, Mr Manoj Kohli, said, “We are happy to have achieved this milestone. For us, the benchmark of real leadership is customer delight and would like to thank all our customers for placing their faith in us.”

The company crossed the 60-million customer mark in February 2008 and the 50-million mark in October 2007, thereby becoming one of the fastest growing telecom companies in the world, the statement added.

China Mobile with 414.5 million customers as on June 2008 is at the No. 1 position, followed by China Unicom with 170.7 million subscriber base.

AT&T is marginally ahead of Bharti with a subscriber base of 72.9 million in June this year.

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