Airtel Gets Best Telecom Award

Bharti Airtel, India''s largest mobile service operator, has been adjudged the best brand and best mobile operator by the World Communication Awards 2007. The awards were announced on November 28 at an event in London that was attended by some of the world''s leading brands in the communications industry. In the Best Mobile Operator category, the other global operators in the final short-list were three, Orange, T-Mobile UK and Telstra. Bharti Airtel, part of the Bharti Group, operates in all 23 telecom circles in the country with a current customer base of 53 million. The World Communication Awards, instituted in 1999 by Total Telecom, seek to recognise and award excellence among communication providers across the globe.