- Bharti Airtel is the Top Telecom Services Provider of 2009
- Manoj Kohli, CEO & Jt. MD, Bharti Airtel, named Telecom Person of the Year 2009
- Bharti Airtel also wins Top VSAT Player 2009, Top NLD Player 2009 and Top Cellular Services Provider 2009
Bharti Airtel, Asia's leading integrated telecom services provider, bagged top honours in the Voice & Data 100 Survey, winning five of the Voice & Data Telecom Awards 2009. Bharti Airtel was named the Top Telecom Services Provider of the Year 2009. Manoj Kohli, CEO and Joint MD of Bharti Airtel, was named the Voice & Data Telecom Person of the Year 2009. The Awards also named Bharti Airtel, the Top VSAT Player 2009, the Top NLD Player 2009 and Top Cellular Services Provider 2009.
According to Voice & Data, “Mr. Manoj Kohli was honored for making Bharti Airtel a world class telecom company. Airtel crossed the 100 million subscriber mark last year and became the third largest single country mobile services operator in the world. For the first time, the company emerged as the numero uno operator in the V&D Top 10. Under his leadership Airtel focused on rural markets with 60% of its new customers additions coming from the rural area and is now actively expanding overseas.”
Manoj Kohli was presented with the Voice & Data Telecom Person of the Year 2009 award by Dr J S Sarma, Chairman, Telecom Regulatory Authority of India. Receiving the award, Mr. Manoj Kohli, CEO & Joint MD, Bharti Airtel, said, “We are delighted to receive this prestigious award and thank Voice & Data for this honour. Committed to globally benchmarked quality, Bharti Airtel believes in constantly innovating so as to bring the best to our over 100 million customers. I am also personally honoured to be named the Telecom Person of the Year which I owe to Team Airtel. At Bharti Airtel, we believe in catalyzing national growth and we are committed to take on bigger challenges in future."
V&D 100 is the most comprehensive annual survey of the Indian telecom services and equipment industries. It is the most trusted and widely used survey for those seeking statistics on Indian telecommunications industry.
About Bharti Airtel Limited
Bharti Airtel Limited, a group company of Bharti Enterprises, is Asia’s leading integrated telecom services provider with operations in India and Sri Lanka and an aggregate of over 105.20 million customers as of end of June 2009, consisting of 102.37 million mobile customers. Bharti Airtel Limited has been voted as India's most innovative company, in a survey conducted by The Wall Street Journal.
Bharti Airtel is structured into three strategic business units - Mobile services, Telemedia services and Enterprise services. The mobile business offers services in India and Sri Lanka. The Telemedia business provides broadband and telephone services in 95 cities, DTH services and has recently forayed into the IPTV services. The Enterprise business provides end-to-end telecom solutions to corporate customers and national and 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 104,540 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.airtel.in
