Bharti
Airtel which has operations in 20 countries across South Asia and Africa
moved up one notch in the world wide ranking to be the fourth largest mobile
operator in the world in terms of subscribers, according to Wireless
Intelligence ‘Scoreboard’.
At the end of the quarter ended June 2012, the Company had
over 250 million mobile subscribers across its operations,
Among the top five operators, China Mobile occupies the
top position with 683.08 million subscribers. Vodafone is at number two
position with 386.88 million subscribers while American Mobil Group and Telefonica
Group occupy 3rd and 5th position with 251.83 million and 243.51 million
subscribers.
Bharti Airtel had become the fifth largest mobile operator
in the world following its acquisition of Zain Group’s mobile operations
across 15 African nations in June 2010.
In India, Bharti Airtel's product offerings include 2G, 3G
and 4G wireless services, mobile commerce, fixed line services, high speed
DSL broadband, IPTV, DTH, enterprise services including national &
international long distance services to carriers. In the rest of the
geographies, it offers 2G, 3G wireless services and mobile commerce. Bharti
Airtel had over 259 million customers across its operations at the end of
September 2012.
Recently Airtel has launched 4G services in Pune. Before
this the company had rolled out 4G services in Kolkata and Bangalore
Pakistan set a world
record
Pakistan set a new
world record after around 70,000 people from the Punjab province sung the
national anthem simultaneously. The previous record was held by India where 15,
243 people had simultaneously sung the national anthem.
Saina Nehwal wins
Denmark open badminton Champion -2012
India's Saina Nehwal
is showing signs of fulfilling the potential that earned her a recent $7.4
million deal by reaching the Denmark Open badminton final after her world
number one-ranked opponent retired with a knee injury.
The 22-year-old world number four was leading 21-12 12-7 against Wang
Yihan on Saturday when her Chinese opponent limped off the court at
Odense.
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