Aircel ropes in Girish Nair as group HR head

Chennai, July 17, 2007 "� Aircel, the fifth largest GSM mobile service provider in the country, has announced the appointment of Mr. Girish Nair as Corporate Vice President and Group Head "� Human Resources (HR) effective from July 2007.

Girish will be directly responsible for formulation and implementation of Aircel's HR strategies and policies for its pan-India operations and help the company in attracting best talents from the industry to aid its rapid growth.

Girish has more than a decade of experience in Corporate HR and prior to joining Aircel; he was the Senior Vice President for Global HR at Aztecsoft Ltd. where he spearheaded its HR initiatives including PCMM (People Capability Maturity Model) and moulded it to be a strong HR brand to be reckoned with. Aztecsoft won a string of HR awards and accolades under his dynamic leadership.

Prior to Aztecsoft, Girish had an 8-year stint with Satyam Computer Services as General Manager "� Global HR where he was responsible for providing HR services to a variety of business verticals including telecom besides playing a pivotal role in the re-engineering and outsourcing of HR operational transactions.

Girish is a committee member in a number of HRD forums and associations besides being an active HR Guest Speaker in national and international seminars and contributor of articles to prominent dailies. Girish is a Psychology graduate and holds an MBA with a specialisation in HR from the Bangalore University.

About Aircel Cellular

Aircel, now part of Maxis Communications Berhad, Malaysia, is India's fifth largest GSM mobile service provider with a subscriber base of over 6.77 million (over 4.76 million in Chennai & Tamil Nadu alone) and is the fastest growing mobile operator in the country. As on date, Aircel is present in 9 telecom circles (Assam, Bihar, Chennai, Himachal Pradesh, Jammu & Kashmir, North East, Orissa, Tamil Nadu and West Bengal) and with licences secured for the remaining 14 of the 23 telecom circles, the company is on track to become a pan-India operator. Additionally, Aircel has also obtained the nod from Department of Telecommunications (DoT) to provide International Long Distance (ILD) and National Long Distance (NLD) telephony services. For more information, please log on to www.aircel.com

About Aircel Business Solutions

Aircel Business Solutions (ABS), part of Aircel, is headquartered in Chennai and is an ISO 9000 certified company. ABS is a registered member of WiMAX forum "� both in the Indian and International Chapters. ABS' product range includes a host of cutting-edge enterprise solutions such as Multi Protocol Label Switching Virtual Private Networks (MPLS VPNs), Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP) and Managed Video Services on wireless platform including WiMAX. For more information, please visit www.aircelbusinesssolutions.com