Bharti Airtel Strengthens Focus on Partnerships with International Carriers

HONOLULU--(Business Wire)--Bharti Airtel Ltd.:

-- Launches the 'India with Airtel' Partnership Program at the
PTC '08 in Hawaii

-- Carriers offered the options of simple models for starting
services to India or working jointly with Airtel to develop
new services and offering services from the Airtel portfolio

Bharti Airtel Ltd., India's leading integrated telecom
conglomerate today announced the launch of the 'India with Airtel' --
a strategic partnership program at the PTC '08 in Honolulu, Hawaii.
The program focuses on providing leading international carriers an
opportunity to partner with Airtel for providing a variety of telecom
services in India like managed data & Internet services, domestic
connectivity, International Circuits, managed customized integrated
solutions and satellite services etc. Under this initiative, Airtel is
offering carriers with business interests in India, multiple
partnership models ranging from simple interconnects to joint
development of new products. Carriers can leverage Airtel's leadership
position in the Indian market to address their requirements and that
of their customers in India, jointly with Airtel.

Announcing the launch of the program, David Nishball, President,
Enterprise Services, Airtel said, "This program will help carrier
partners utilize our extensive domestic and international network for
their benefit. These partners can offer various services from Airtel's
comprehensive portfolio to accomplish their India business strategy.
We also propose to work jointly with these carrier partners to develop
a go-to-market strategy. This program highlights how Airtel seeks to
develop the industry by working with other partners to achieve
successful results in the Indian telecom market."

The program aims to help carriers across all carrier segments
through different partnership models. There are options for India
connectivity aimed at carriers taking license in India and building
their networks. Options are also available, for carriers with a
presence in their home territory but having no network to India, to
connect to the Airtel global network. Another option is aimed at
carriers with international presence and partial networks to build
networks jointly with Airtel. There is also an option for integrated
players which need to expand their network to India to add Airtel's
services to their portfolio as White Label Services.

The 'India with Airtel' partnership program offers carriers a host
of options of simple plug and play models to initiate or enhance their
capabilities to India. Carriers also have options of utilizing either
their existing network to India or for building complete new network
and services to India using Airtel's global capabilities. The program
encompasses the complete partnership lifecycle, right from developing
the products and services to joint sales and after sales support.
Airtel will also provide support to these partners in India including
marketing support through dedicated sales teams and marketing
collaterals across all services. Carriers will be offered customized
partnership models to meet their individual needs.

Airtel provides an integrated suite of local and global
connectivity solutions across continents. With local network spanning
over 75,000 route kilometres of fibre including intra-city fibre
covering more than 500 cities, over 600 MPLS and SDH POPs, Airtel
offers an unparalleled domestic reach in India. It has further
extended its international footprint after the acquisition of i2i
recently and has made investments in SMW4, Apollo, TAT 14, APCN2, C2C
along with major shareholding in all new cable projects like Asia
America Gateway and others across the globe.

About Bharti Airtel Limited:

Bharti Airtel Limited, a group company of Bharti Enterprises, is
India's leading integrated telecom services provider with an aggregate
of 55.09 million customers as of end of November 2007, consisting of
52.96 million mobile customers. Bharti Airtel has been rated among the
best performing companies in the world in the BusinessWeek IT 100 list
2007.

Bharti Airtel is structured into three strategic business units -
Mobile services, Telemedia services and Enterprise services. The
mobile business provides mobile & fixed wireless services using GSM
technology across 23 telecom circles. The Telemedia business provides
broadband & telephone services in 94 cities and is foraying into the
IPTV and DTH segments. The Enterprise services provide end-to-end
telecom solutions to corporate customers and national & 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 55,000 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.bhartiairtel.in.

Bharti Airtel Ltd.
Paroma Roy Chowdhury
Ph:+91-124-4552233
paroma.chowdhury@airtel.in
or
Vibha Gupta
Ph:+91-124-4552233
vibha.gupta@airtel.in

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