Airtel Oligopoly
ECONOMICS ASSIGNMENT
(Ms. Randeep Kaur)
SUBMITTED BY:
JATINDER PAL SINGH
MBA-General
Roll No. 12
UBS
TELECOM INDUSTRY
'Indian Telecom Industry' is the fifth largest and fastest growing industry in the world. Three types of players exists in ' Telecom Industry India ' community - * State owned companies like - BSNL and MTNL. * Private Indian owned companies like - Reliance Infocom and Tata Teleservices. * Foreign invested companies like - Hutchison-Essar, Bharti Airtel Tele-Ventures, Idea Cellular, Spice Communications etc.
Bharti Airtel now is the largest telecom company in India. There are many smaller players, with operations in only a few states. The following table gives details regarding the subscriber base of each Mobile Service Provider in India as of 31 July 2010 :-
BHARTI AIRTEL
Bharti Airtel Limited formerly known as Bharti Tele-Ventures LTD (BTVL) is an Indian company offering telecommunication services in 19 countries. It is the largest cellular service provider in India, with more than 141 million subscriptions as of August 2010[update]. Bharti Airtel is the world's third largest, single-country mobile operator and fifth largest telecom operator in the world with a subscriber base of over 180 million. It also offers fixed line services and broadband services. It offers its telecom services under the Airtel brand and is headed by Sunil Bharti Mittal. To earn Gold Certification, Bharti Airtel had to meet rigorous standards for networking competency, service, support and customer satisfaction set forth by Cisco. The company also provides land-line telephone services and broadband Internet access (DSL) in over 96 cities in India. It also acts as a carrier for national and international long distance communication services.
Globally, Bharti Airtel is the 3rd largest in-country mobile operator by subscriber base, behind China Mobile and China Unicom. In India, the company has a 30.7% share of the wireless services market. In January 2010,
(Ms. Randeep Kaur)
SUBMITTED BY:
JATINDER PAL SINGH
MBA-General
Roll No. 12
UBS
TELECOM INDUSTRY
'Indian Telecom Industry' is the fifth largest and fastest growing industry in the world. Three types of players exists in ' Telecom Industry India ' community - * State owned companies like - BSNL and MTNL. * Private Indian owned companies like - Reliance Infocom and Tata Teleservices. * Foreign invested companies like - Hutchison-Essar, Bharti Airtel Tele-Ventures, Idea Cellular, Spice Communications etc.
Bharti Airtel now is the largest telecom company in India. There are many smaller players, with operations in only a few states. The following table gives details regarding the subscriber base of each Mobile Service Provider in India as of 31 July 2010 :-
BHARTI AIRTEL
Bharti Airtel Limited formerly known as Bharti Tele-Ventures LTD (BTVL) is an Indian company offering telecommunication services in 19 countries. It is the largest cellular service provider in India, with more than 141 million subscriptions as of August 2010[update]. Bharti Airtel is the world's third largest, single-country mobile operator and fifth largest telecom operator in the world with a subscriber base of over 180 million. It also offers fixed line services and broadband services. It offers its telecom services under the Airtel brand and is headed by Sunil Bharti Mittal. To earn Gold Certification, Bharti Airtel had to meet rigorous standards for networking competency, service, support and customer satisfaction set forth by Cisco. The company also provides land-line telephone services and broadband Internet access (DSL) in over 96 cities in India. It also acts as a carrier for national and international long distance communication services.
Globally, Bharti Airtel is the 3rd largest in-country mobile operator by subscriber base, behind China Mobile and China Unicom. In India, the company has a 30.7% share of the wireless services market. In January 2010,