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MUMBAI:
Bharti Airtel today announced that it has crossed the 40 million-mobile
customer milestone. According to the Wireless Intelligence,
it has become the first Indian mobile service provider and the tenth
in the world to join a global list of telecom operators with more
than 40 million mobile customers from a single country. This figure
was reached in 12 years, making it one of the fastest companies
to make it to the list.
Bharti Airtel president for mobile services Sanjay Kapoor said,
"This is indeed a remarkable achievement not only for us at
Airtel, but also for the country as it clearly underscores the coming
of age of Indian companies in the international telecom arena."
The
company's overall wireless market share increased to over 23.2 percent
as of April 2007 from 20.4 percent as reported in FY 06. The company
plans to aggressively roll out more than 30,000 cell sites in FY08
to increase its population coverage to 70 percent.
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