9. The Big Boys of Indian Telecom
Subscriber
Players Presence Promoters
Base(Mn)
Bharti Airtel Pan India 74.78 Manoj Kohli
Reliance Anil Dhirubhai
Pan – India 54.91
Communication Ambani
Vodafone Essar 17 Circles 52.76 Vittorio Colao
BSNL 21 Circles 38.49 Govt subsidiary
Idea Cellular 12 Circles 29.28
Tata Teleservices Pan – India 29.18 Own subsidiary
Aircel 10 Circles 13.13 Rohit Chandra
10. Large number of Low teledensity Telecom
additions in telecom (depicting large
Advantage
subscribers untapped potential)
250 24
Teledensity (in percent)
Subscribers (in million)
18.3 19.9 20
200
12.8 16
150
9.1 12
225.21
100 7.0
206 8
5.1 140.3
50 98.4 4
53 76
0 0
2002–03 2003–04 2004–05 2005–06 2006–07 2007–08 (as
of June
2007)
Telecom Subscriber Base Teledensity
11.
12.
13. Players What’s with them
DATACOM Videocon subsidiary.
New estate with primary
UNITECH
biz being real estate.
Russian operator, hold a
SISTEMA
stake in shyam telecom.
Etisalat picked 45% stake
SWAN TELECOM
here.
Looking at Pan – India,
RELIANCE COMM
Gsm Operation.
Looking at Pan – India,
TATA TELESERVICES Gsm Operation.
