Preview

Strategic Analysis of Bharti Airtel Limited

Powerful Essays
Open Document
Open Document
4109 Words
Grammar
Grammar
Plagiarism
Plagiarism
Writing
Writing
Score
Score
Strategic Analysis of Bharti Airtel Limited
[pic]

STRATEGIC ANALYSIS
OF
BHARTI AIRTEL LIMITED

[pic]

Submitted To: Submitted By:
Dr. Himani Sharma Aanchal Mishra I Abhinav Srivastava I Adish Jain I51 Akash Johari I53 Ankit Gupta I35 Anubha I

Amity Business School, Amity University Uttar Pradesh
[pic]

INTRODUCTION

Bharti Airtel, formerly known as Bharti Tele-Ventures Limited (BTVL) is India's largest and world's third largest cellular service provider with more than 82 million subscribers as of December 2008. It also offers fixed line services and broadband services.

SingTel owns over 30% of the Bharti Telecom. Vodafone is also a shareholder of Airtel with 4% of the shares. Thus making it a sister company of the brand

The Bharti Group has a diverse business portfolio and has created global brands in the telecommunication sector. Bharti has recently forayed into retail business as Bharti Retail Pvt. Ltd. under a MoU with Wal-Mart for the cash & carry business. It has successfully launched an international venture with EL Rothschild Group to export fresh agric - products exclusively to markets in Europe and USA and has launched Bharti AXA Life Insurance Company Ltd under a joint venture with AXA, world leader in financial protection and wealth management.

Airtel comes to you from Bharti Airtel Limited, India’s largest integrated and the first private telecom services provider with a footprint in all the 23 telecom circles. Bharti Airtel since its inception has been at the forefront of technology and has steered the course of the telecom sector in the country with its world class products and services. The businesses at Bharti Airtel have been structured into three individual strategic business units (SBU’s) - Mobile Services, Airtel Telemedia Services & Enterprise Services. The mobile business provides mobile & fixed wireless services using GSM

You May Also Find These Documents Helpful

  • Powerful Essays

    Price- Our pricing is $10.00 cheaper than the plans offered by Airtel, we also will have marketing campaigns that will allow all new customer to receive free activations and $50.00 off any phone purchase for the first month of launch.…

    • 1793 Words
    • 8 Pages
    Powerful Essays
  • Powerful Essays

    The core competency of Bharti Airtel Limited was its “single-minded devotion to the project and the industry.” The company focused completely on telecom, rather than many different services at once like its competitors would attempt. Its operational strategy, to “pursue the acquisition of licenses for mobile operations in other geographic regions, or circles” proved successful as the company dominated the industry, having 91% of the customer base. It also strived to provide value-added services – data transmission, texting, games, ringtones, etc. in order to maintain its competitive advantage over its competition. The company was structure into three strategic business units to allow for a better handle on its operations: mobile services, long-distance/group data/enterprise, and broadband/telephone services. This allowed the company to focus its energy into where it would be most successful. Bharti was certainly doing many things right, which led to so much growth that it was quickly becoming an issue.…

    • 1524 Words
    • 7 Pages
    Powerful Essays
  • Powerful Essays

    Telecommunication is the transmission of messages over significant distances for the purpose of communication. In the modern age of electricity, telecommunications has involved the use of electric means such as the telegraph and telephone, the use of microwave communications and the use of fiber optics.…

    • 4573 Words
    • 19 Pages
    Powerful Essays
  • Powerful Essays

    Swot Analysis

    • 1364 Words
    • 6 Pages

    • Bharti Airtel speedy activity is one of its best attributes that has made it gain an international status across the world. It is always updated with the latest data and is highly competent. Quality remains the prime concern and is maintained strictly by the team.…

    • 1364 Words
    • 6 Pages
    Powerful Essays
  • Powerful Essays

    TITLE PAGE “A COMPARATIVE ANALYSIS ON THE COMPETITIVE STRATEGIES OF TELECOM INDUSTRY WITH A SPECIAL FOCUS TO AIRTEL” CONTENTS |CHAPTER |PARTICULARS |PAGE NO. | |1. |EXECUTIVE SUMMARY |7 | |2.…

    • 2996 Words
    • 12 Pages
    Powerful Essays
  • Powerful Essays

    Air India Strategy

    • 3539 Words
    • 15 Pages

    Air India is the national carrier of India and offers flights to 96 destinations. Air India Express, a Low Cost Carrier (LCC, subsidy to Air India, commenced its services from 2004. Air India Express operates its services to Middle East and South East Asian. In 2007, Air India merged with Indian Airlines and a new company called the National Aviation Company of India Limited (NACIL) was approved by the government to facilitate the merger (Air India…

    • 3539 Words
    • 15 Pages
    Powerful Essays
  • Powerful Essays

    Incorporated on July 7, 1995, Bharti Airtel Ltd is a division of Bharti Enterprises. The businesses of Bharti Airtel are structured into two main strategic groups -Mobility and Infotel. The Mobility business provides GSM mobile services in all 23 telecommunications circles in India, while the Infotel business group provides telephone services and Internet access over DSL in 15 circles. The company complements its mobile, broadband, and telephone services with national and international long-distance services. The company also has a submarine cable landing station at Chennai, which connects the submarine cable connecting Chennai and Singapore. Bharti Tele-Ventures provides end-to-end data and enterprise services to corporate customers by leveraging its nationwide fiber optic backbone, last mile connectivity in fixed-line and mobile circles, VSATs, ISP and international bandwidth access through the gateways and landing station. All of Bharti Tele-Ventures' services are provided under the Airtel brand. As of September 2005, Bharti Tele-Ventures was the only company to provide mobile services in all 23 telecom circles in India. By the end of October 2005, Bharti Tele-Ventures was serving more than 14.74 million GSM mobile subscribers and 1.10 million broadband and telephone (fixed line) customers. The equity shares of Bharti Tele-Ventures are currently listed on the National Stock Exchange of India Ltd (NSE) and the Stock Exchange, Mumbai (BSE). As of September 30, 2005, the main shareholders of Bharti Tele-Ventures were: Bharti Telecom Ltd (45.65%), a subsidiary of Bharti Enterprises; Singapore Telecom (15.69%), through its investment division Pastel Ltd; and, Warburg Pincus (5.65%), through its investment company Brentwood Investment Holdings Ltd). Other shareholders with more than a 1% stake were: Citi Group Global Markets Mauritius Pvt Ltd (2.99%); Euro pacific Growth Fund (2.04%); Morgan Stanley & Co International Ltd (1.93%); CLSA…

    • 4822 Words
    • 20 Pages
    Powerful Essays
  • Satisfactory Essays

    * The company possesses a customized version of the Google search engine which will enhance broadband services to customers. The tie-up with Google can only enhance the Airtel brand, and also provides advertising opportunities in Indian for Google.…

    • 703 Words
    • 3 Pages
    Satisfactory Essays
  • Good Essays

    Sunil Bharti Mittal, born October 23, 1957 is an Indian businessman. He is the chairman and managing director of the Bharti group. The $4.5 billion turnover company runs India's largest GSM-based mobile phone service.…

    • 1639 Words
    • 7 Pages
    Good Essays
  • Satisfactory Essays

    Bsnl Company Profile.Docx

    • 960 Words
    • 4 Pages

    BSNL is India's oldest and largest Communication Service Provider (CSP). Currently BSNL has a customer base of 68.5 million (Basic & Mobile telephony). It has footprints throughout India except for the metropolitan cities of Mumbai and New Delhi which are managed by MTNL. As on December 31, 2007 BSNL commanded a customer base of 31.7 million Wireline, 4.1 million CDMA-WLL and 32.7 million GSM Mobile subscribers. BSNL's earnings for the Financial Year ending March 31, 2007 stood at INR 397.15b (US$ 9.67 b) with net profit of INR 78.06b (US$ 1.90 billion). Today, BSNL is India's largest Telco and one of the largest Public Sector Undertaking with estimated market value of $ 100 Billion. The company is planning an IPO with in 6 months to offload 10 % to public.…

    • 960 Words
    • 4 Pages
    Satisfactory Essays
  • Satisfactory Essays

    Bharti Airtel

    • 1001 Words
    • 5 Pages

    In 2003, the cellular phone operations were rebranded under the single Airtel brand. In 2004, Bharti acquired control of Hexacom and entered Rajasthan. In 2005, Bharti extended its network to Andaman and Nicobar. This expansion allowed it to offer voice services…

    • 1001 Words
    • 5 Pages
    Satisfactory Essays
  • Powerful Essays

    Bharti tele-ventures provides end to end data and enterprise services to corporate customers by leveraging its nationwide fiber-optic backbone, last mile connectivity in fixed line and mobile circles.VSATs,ISP and international bandwidth access through the gateways and landing station. All of Bharti-ventures services are provided under airtel.in 2008; bharti Airtel attained its 90 million customer mark. The equity shares of Airtel are listed on the national stock exchange and Bombay stock exchange.…

    • 2853 Words
    • 12 Pages
    Powerful Essays
  • Good Essays

    7p's of Airtel

    • 695 Words
    • 3 Pages

    Bharti Airtel Limited, commonly known as Airtel, is an Indian multinational telecommunications Services Company headquartered in New Delhi, India. It operates in 20 countries across South Asia, Africa, and the Channel Islands. Airtel has GSM network in all countries in which it operates, providing 2G, 3G and 4G services depending upon the country of operation. Airtel is the world's third largest mobile telecommunications company with over 269 million subscribers across 150 countries as of August 2013. It is the largest cellular service provider in India, with 190.91 million subscribers as of June 2013. Airtel is the third largest in-country mobile operator by subscriber base, behind China Mobile and China Unicom.…

    • 695 Words
    • 3 Pages
    Good Essays
  • Powerful Essays

    Singtel

    • 2589 Words
    • 11 Pages

    Today, SingTel continue to lead and shape the local digital consumer market and the enterprise ICT market. They are a major communications player in Asia and Africa through their strategic investments in six regional mobile operators, namely Telkomsel (Indonesia), Globe Telecom (the Philippines), Advanced Info Service (Thailand), Warid Telecom (Pakistan) and PBTL (Bangladesh). The Group also has investments in Bharti Airtel (India), which has significant presence in Bangladesh, Sri Lanka and Africa. They are a long term strategic investor and work closely with the associates to grow the business, by leveraging their scale in networks, customer reach and extensive operational experience. The Group serves 468 million mobile customers around the world.…

    • 2589 Words
    • 11 Pages
    Powerful Essays
  • Satisfactory Essays

    Mnp Project Report

    • 428 Words
    • 2 Pages

    Aircel commenced operations in 1999 and became the leading mobile operator in Tamil Nadu within 18 months. In December 2003, it launched commercially in Chennai and quickly established itself as a market leader – a position it has held since.…

    • 428 Words
    • 2 Pages
    Satisfactory Essays