Bharti to provide 2G, 3G services in Sri Lanka

Mumbai, January 18, 2007: Bharti Airtel Limted, India's leading private sector telecommunications service provider, today announced that it has received a Letter of Offer from Telecommunications Regulatory Commission of Sri Lanka to provide 2G and 3G mobile services in Sri Lanka. This will be the first international operation of Bharti Airtel and is in line with the Company's plans to expand its telecom operations in the South Asian region.

Commenting on the Letter of Offer, Mr. Sunil Bharti Mittal, Chairman and Managing Director, Bharti Airtel Limited said, "We are delighted to have received the offer to provide mobile services in Sri Lanka. Today, the South Asian region offers tremendous growth opportunities and Sri Lanka is a very promising market for telecom services. Bharti Airtel with its extensive experience and unique business model will strive to offer world-class services at affordable rates to the people of Sri Lanka."

Bharti Global, a subsidiary of Bharti Enterprises, has been operating comprehensive telecom services in Seychelles under the Airtel brand since 1998 and recently launched 3G services in the country. Bharti Global has also been awarded licenses to operate 2G and 3G services in Jersey and Guernsey in Europe.

About Bharti Airtel Limited:

Bharti Airtel Limited is one of India's leading private sector providers of telecommunications services with an aggregate of 33.71 million customers as of end of December'06, consisting of 31.97 million mobile customers. Bharti Airtel has been rated among 10 best performing companies in the world in the BusinessWeek IT 100 list.

Bharti Airtel is structured into three strategic business units - Mobile services, Broadband & Telephone (B&T) services and Enterprise services. The mobile business provides mobile & fixed wireless services using GSM technology across 23 telecom circles.

The B&T business provides broadband & telephone services in 94 cities. The Enterprise services provide end-to-end telecom solutions to corporate customers and national & international long distance services to carriers. All these services are provided under the Airtel brand.

Airtel's high-speed optic fibre network currently spans over 36,000 kms covering all the major cities in the country. The company has two international landing stations in Chennai that connects two submarine cable systems - i2i to Singapore and SEA-ME-WE-4 to Europe. For more information, visit www.bhartiairtel.in