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Our Vision
Bharti Airtel is one of India's leading private sector providers of telecommunications services based on an aggregate
of 82,748,790 customers as of October 31, 2008, consisting of 80,199,747 GSM mobile and 2,549,043 Telemedia
customers. The company is the largest GSM mobile service provider in the country, based on the number of
customers; it has an all India footprint, with mobile operations in all the 23 licensed jurisdictions (also known as
Telecom Circles). The company also offers an integrated suite of telecom solutions to its enterprise customers, in
addition to providing long distance connectivity both nationally and internationally. The company has recently forayed
into media by launching its DTH Services in October 2008. All these services are rendered under a unified brand
“Airtel”.
The company also deploys, owns and manages passive infrastructure pertaining to telecom operations under its
subsidiary Bharti Infratel Limited. Bharti Infratel owns 42% of Indus Towers Limited.
Bharti Infratel and Indus Towers are the two top providers of passive infrastructure services in India.
Partners
Mobile Services Nokia, Ericsson, Huawei
Network Equipment
Telemedia Services Siemens, Nortel, Wipro, Cisco
Information Technology IBM
IBM Daksh, Hinduja TMT, Teleperformance
Call Centre Operations
Mphasis, Firstsource & Nortel
Equity Partner {Strategic} Singtel
Board Of Directors
Sunil Bharti Mittal Chairman and Managing Director
Manoj Kohli Joint Managing Director
Akhil Gupta Non Executive Director
Chua Sock Koong Non Executive Director
Paul O’Sullivan Non Executive Director
Quah Kung Yang Non Executive Director
Rajan Bharti Mittal Non Executive Director
Rakesh Bharti Mittal Non Executive Director
Kurt Hellstrom Independent Non Executive Director
Ajay Lal Independent Non Executive Director
Arun Bharat Ram Independent Non Executive Director
Bashir Abdulla Currimjee Independent Non Executive Director
Mauro Sentinelli Independent Non Executive Director
N.Kumar Independent Non Executive Director
Nikesh Arora Independent Non Executive Director
Pulak Chandan Prasad Independent Non Executive Director
Exchange Listings
The Stock Exchange, Mumbai (BSE)
The National Stock Exchange Of India Limited (NSE)
Key Ratios
EBITDA Margin % 37.6% 37.3% 40.2% 42.1% 41.5% 41.0%
Net Profit Margin % 18.7% 19.4% 23.0% 24.8% 23.9% 22.7%
Net Debt to Stockholders Equity Times 0.66 0.45 0.31 0.19 0.17 0.20
Return on Stockholders Equity % 28.0% 29.5% 37.4% 38.0% 37.9% 35.9%
Return on Capital employed % 18.0% 21.3% 28.2% 31.7% 33.8% 33.9%
1. Annual financial highlights for the year ended March 31, 2005, 2006, 2007 and 2008 are based on consolidated audited results as per United States
Generally Accepted Accounting Principles (US GAAP).
2. Financial highlights for the quarter ended Sept 30, 2008 are audited and are based on the consolidated results as per United States Generally
Accepted Accounting Principles (US GAAP).
3. Income before income taxes for the full year ended March 31, 2007 and March 31, 2008 as well as quarter ended June 30 & Sept 30 2008 are after
fringe benefit tax.
4. Exchange rate for Rupee conversion to US$ is (a) Rs. 43.62 for the financial year ended March 31, 2005 (b) Rs. 44.48 for the financial year ended
March 31, 2006 (c) Rs. 43.10 for the financial year ended March 31, 2007 (d) Rs.40.02 for the financial year ended Match 31,2008 and (e) Rs. 42.93
for the quarter ended June 30, 2008 (f) Rs 46.45 for the quarter ended Sept 30, 2008 being the noon buying rate as announced by The Federal
Reserve Bank of New York at the end of the respective periods.