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Wednesday, August 11, 2010

Bharti Begins African Adventure

Bharti Airtel, India's leading mobile operator, said its revenues in the quarter ending June 30 rose 17% year-on-year to 2.63 billion US dollars, boosted by 23 days of revenues from its newly-acquired operations in Africa. Lifted by a 36% rise in customers to 141 million, the company said that its revenues in India and South Asia were 2.42 billion dollars, a rise of 8.2% year-on-year.

Following the acquisition of most of Zain's African operations, Bharti said it had almost 119,000 network sites at the end of the quarter compared with less than 108,000 at the end of March, while its number of employees jumped from about 18,000 to almost 25,000. source: Bharti statements

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