Sunil Mittal-owned Bharti Airtel became the first Indian telecom company on Monday to join the world's top 10 operators, with its customer base crossing the 50-million mark in mobile, broadband and wireline services. "Our next target is to reach 100 million mark by 2010," Bharti Airtel President and CEO Manoj Kohli said.
The 50 million customers span mobile, broadband and fixed telephone services, with wireless segment estimated to be contributing as much as 96 per cent (47.99 million) of the total base.
However, exact figures for the mobile additions in the month of September would be provided by Cellular Operators Association of India in a couple of days.
Bharti Airtel has been adding over two million subscribers every month and had 46.8 million subscribers by the end of August, 2007. Company's Joint Managing Director Akhil Gupta said: "Most of the susbcribers from the next 50 million would come