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	personalities - Indian - Industrialists - Sunil Mittal
		Sunil Bharti Mittal, founder, Chairman and Managing Director of Bharti Group can be labelled as the most ambitious telecom entrepreneur in India.
		Sunil Mittal got interested in push button phones while on a trip to Taiwan, and in 1982, introduced the phones to India, replacing the old fashioned, bulky rotary phones that were in use in the country then.
		Mittal has to his credit the breaking up of the 100 year old monopoly of state run companies to operate telecom services in India.
	www.webindia123.com /personal/industry/mittal.htm (688 words)

	:: India Inc ::
		And, in case of Sunil Mittal, Chief Executive, Bharti Enterprises, the tide did come in February 1992 when he bid for the licence of cellular phones in Delhi region.
		Mittal, at the same time, proved that he was the most ambitious and undisputed telecom entrepreneur India has.
		Mittal's knack for opportunities and his smart business moves are testimony of his enterprising nature.
	india-inc.in /Sunil-Bharti-Mittal.html (600 words)

	IndianExpress.com :: CDMA is dying by the day: Sunil Mittal
		Mittal said that worldwide, GSM operators are migrating to W-CDMA technology while CDMA operators are switching to GSM.
		Mittal said that when 3G is finally launched in India, its impact will be tremendous, though that is not yet being sensed yet by anyone in India.
		On a recent controversy about cellular subscriptions, Mittal said that the debate was ‘‘unnecessary.’’ He said that it was unlikely that operators were padding up their numbers significantly, but even if they were, there was little to be gained from it.
	www.indianexpress.com /story/7122.html (703 words)

	Business World - Marketing
		Mittal has laid 2,500 kilometres of fibre right to the borders of the state and is just waiting to interconnect with operators in other states.
		Mittal's optimism is shared by the Tatas who are placing their bets on basic services.
		Mittal counters that the only way to increase his marketshare is by cutting tariffs -- a step he doesn't want to take as it will lead to a bloodbath in the marketplace.
	www.businessworldindia.com /archive/990906/mktg6.htm (2152 words)

	TIME Asia Print Page: Speed Dialing -- December 2, 2002/ Vol. 160 No. 21 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		First, Mittal tried to light a large oil lamp with a candle, but the wicks were soaked in too much oil and he stood awkwardly as they refused to catch fire.
		Mittal, a serial entrepreneur, is a master at attracting investments and getting loans in India, where capital has been in painfully short supply—a skill that is especially helpful when your rivals have more money than you.
		Mittal and his top managers worked 20-hour days negotiating; some of his staffers napped on the conference tables while the documents were being drawn.
	time.com /time/asia/magazine/printout/0,13675,501021202-393810,00.html (1797 words)

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		SUNIL Bharti Mittal is being photographed at The Banyan Tree, a lounge inside Bharti Telecom's Delhi headquarters.
		Mittal admits that in the Top 4 set, he'd rather be one of the Top 2 than the Bottom 2.
		When Mittal and his team were readying for the BSNL launch, they knew they could do nothing about the infrastructure advantage of the state-owned carrier.
	www.businessworldindia.com /oct1303/coverstory01.asp (1462 words)

	The Economic Times (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		Sunil Mittal, who has been the executive chairman for all Bharti businesses so far, also announced that he would no longer be playing an executive role in Bharti Teletech and Bharti Global, the two non-telecom services businesses in the group.
		Mittal said the new group structure for service operations would have two joint managing directors and companies grouped around these business lines would be headed by presidents.
		Mittal himself has often maintained in his dealings with the media that over time he would prefer to keep off micro level operations of group companies and leave that to his CEOs and presidents.
	www.angelfire.com /nd/telecom/bharti.html (2322 words)

	Bloomberg.com: News & Commentary
		Mittal, 46, dressed in a tie and shirt at his company's New Delhi headquarters in the shadow of the 230-foot Qutub Minar tower, a 13th-century monument to Islamic rule, predicts that in three years, India will have 100 million mobile phone users.
		Mittal says he persuaded SFR to become a partner during their first meeting, knowing that its support was key because bidders on the license had to show prior telecom experience.
		Mittal expects to continue earning returns for his investors because, he says, his costs are less than those of competitors.
	quote.bloomberg.com /apps/news?pid=nifea&&sid=aX.nHVBvM7EA (2984 words)

	Sunil Mittal, Chairman & MD, Bharti Group, India
		But then, Mittal's never showed a lack of nerves, not once in the time it has taken him to cover the distance from the crowded trader bastion of Chandni Chowk to Amrita Shergill Marg in Lutyen's Delhi.
		Mittal is now India's leading telecom pioneer and" said Forbes very aptly, when he made his debut on the Forbes annual list of the world's billionaires with a net worth of $2.7 billion, in early 2004.
		Not only was Airtel, Mittal's cellphone service for Delhi, the first private Indian telecom player to turn a profit, thanks to aggressive marketing, Bharti also became the first local firm to run telecom services abroad when it won a license to operate in Seychelles.
	www.123oye.com /google-news/hot-ceo/bharti.htm (341 words)

	Sunil Mittal Profile - Sunil Bharti Mittal Biography - Information on Sunil Mittal AirTel
		Sunil Bharti Mittal's father was an M.P. Sunil did not followed his father's footsteps.
		By 1979, Sunil Mittal realized that his ambitions could not be fulfilled in Ludhiana, so he moved out to Mumbai from Ludhiana.
		Sunil Bharti Mittal was chosen as one of the top entrepreneurs in the world for the year 2000 and amongst 'Stars Of Asia', by 'Business Week'.
	www.iloveindia.com /indian-heroes/sunil-mittal.html (462 words)

	Bharti Telesoft (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		Sunil Bharti Mittal is one of the most highly respected businessmen, not only in Asia, but worldwide.
		Mittal was voted ‘Entrepreneur of the Year’ by Ernst and Young and in 2005 was named ‘Best Asian Telecom CEO’ by Telecom Asia.
		Mittal heads the National Committee on Customer Affairs of CII and has also been a member of the Northern Region Council of CII since 1998.
	www.bhartitelesoft.com /company/directors.htm (605 words)

	The Telegraph - Calcutta : Business (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		Group chairman and managing director Sunil Bharti Mittal today said the company is preparing a special tariff package for subscribers in the festival period.
		Mittal was in the city to accept an award for Outstanding Young Achievers Award from the Young Leader’s Forum.
		If the government raises the FDI cap in the telecom sector to 74 per cent, it would enable us to raise more capital from the international market.” He added the company had enough funds to finance upcoming projects and was not planning to raise funds from the international markets in the immediate future.
	www.telegraphindia.com /1020914/asp/business/story_1196744.asp (314 words)

	Sunil Mittal's 'mother of all battles'
		Bangalore, March 29: Sunil Bharti Mittal may have made big bucks out of the mobile telephony revolution in India, but the man says it was a saga of struggle, fight and the 'mother of all battles'.
		Mittal said the period-- 1976 to 1985--was a period of great struggle, of great pain but one of great learning.
		Mittal said the company believed that "if the business is about people and customers and not about money and technology, it thought it can win the war."
	www.expressindia.com /fullstory.php?newsid=65156 (754 words)

	Telecom Person of the Year 2006 is Sunil Bharti Mittal (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		New Delhi, 21 July 2006: Sunil Bharti Mittal, CMD Bharti Airtel is the Telecom Person of the Year 2006.
		Instituted by VOICEandDATA, the award was presented to Sunil Bharti Mittal at a ceremony in New Delhi, amidst a gathering of the leaders of India's telecom and networking industries, on a pleasantly rain-swept evening in Delhi.
		On receiving the award, Mittal said, he is delighted to get the award as it strongly indicates that the industry is recognizing the effort that Bharti Airtel is putting in bringing telephony to everyone.
	www.voicendata.com /content/vndtoday/106072101.asp (455 words)

	Sunil Mittal Talk at IBM -- Saturday, April 29, 2006
		Sunil Mittal, Bharti's Chairman and Group Managing Director talked about the major challenges Bharti has faced over the last few years as India navigates some turbulent waters.
		To do this, Sunil Mittal had to develop a radically innovative business model: focus only on the customers and outsource just about everything else.
		Mittal begged to differ, saying the customer, not the technology, was at the heart of his business and then proceeded to implement the strategy.
	www.emergic.org /archives/indi/013601.php (343 words)

	The Hindu : Karnataka / Bangalore News : Big opportunities in tourism, service industry: Sunil Mittal
		Mittal said hospitality and tourism will be the next big wave to hit the country.
		Mittal referred to the new programmes for the farm sector in the Union Budget.
		Mittal recalled Bharti's receipt of the first mobile telephony license in 1995 issued for Delhi and the company's initial takeover of three mobile circles including Karnataka.
	www.hindu.com /2006/03/29/stories/2006032921730300.htm (732 words)

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		Sunil Bharti Mittal, the chairman of Bharti Enterprises, has been named the Ernst and Young Entrepreneur of the Year 2004.
		Mittal received the award from Infosys Chief Mentor NR Narayana Murthy and Paul Ostling, chief operating officer, Ernst and Young Global, at a function held here tonight.
		Mittal was among 20 businessmen shortlisted for the award.
	www.ibef.org /artdisplay.aspx?cat_id=60&art_id=4101 (339 words)

	The Hindu Business Line : Cell base to cross 100 m in 2 years: Sunil Mittal
		Mr Sunil Mittal, Group Chairman and Managing Director, Bharti Tele-Ventures, comes back to his chair after delivering a speech on `Building institution in Asia' at the Leadership Summit in Indian School of Business in Hyderabad on Thursday.
		Mr Mittal said, "the growth of over 100 per cent witnessed this year is expected to continue next year.
		On the issue of drop in revenues even as customer base expanded substantially, Mr Mittal said it was true that the revenue had not grown in line with the customer base.
	thehindubusinessline.com /bline/2003/12/13/stories/2003121301930700.htm (464 words)

	Businessworld: The man who gave away his network (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		Mittal, on his part, says he was never a prisoner of the 'to do or not to do' dilemma.
		Sunil Mittal says companies are even asking for a week-to-week assessment: "Very senior people have approached us - from Russia, Europe, SingTel." A Malaysian and an Indonesian operator are being briefed.
		Mittal says even Hutch, which has outsourced services in Australia, is evaluating the model.
	www.businessworld.in /oct0404/coverstory01.asp (5413 words)

	Techtree.com India > News > Telecom > Bharti to Expand Global Footprint
		Sunil Mittal, chairman, Bharti Airtel, said that they are ready to go outside India, and that they have the strength and the resilience for it.
		Mittal said that Vodafone in Newbury, England and Singtel, South East Asia's largest telephone company, will support Bharti's expansion plans.
		Mentioning that Pakistan is not yet ready to allow an Indian company to invest there, Mittal said that leaves Bharti with Bangladesh and Sri Lanka to invest in.
	www.techtree.com /techtree/jsp/article.jsp?article_id=74009&cat_id=613 (403 words)

	FT.com / Asia-Pacific / India - Profile: Sunil Bharti Mittal (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		In a world agog at the success of steel baron Lakshmi Mittal, the Carnegie of the modern era, the extraordinary rise of his unrelated namesake, Sunil Bharti Mittal, chairman of Bharti Enterprises and the czar of Indian telecoms, has gone relatively unnoticed.
		Whereas Lakshmi Mittal left India to build up his group overseas and is only now starting to focus on India, Sunil Bharti Mittal, 49, has done exactly the opposite.
		Sunil Mittal’s is an all-too-rare story of entrepreneurial drive overcoming the politically powerful industrial houses such as Tata and Reliance that dominate Indian business.
	www.ft.com /cms/s/4a4dcbbc-7dee-11db-84bb-0000779e2340.html (1850 words)

	Dataquest : Top Stories : IT Man of the Year 2002: India Connects with Sunil Mittal (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		Mittal has to its credit the breaking up of the 100 year old monopolies of state run companies to operate telecom services in India.
		Mittal does talk about burning the excess fat that has accumulated in the next nine months, attributing the magnitude of the mass that has accrued to "a personal problem of not being able to fire people".
		Ruling out plans of any "large scale retrenchment", Mittal informs that in the year gone by, three employees with the same problem were "assisted in going on their own." One was given startup money for becoming a franchisee, another was awarded a contract to start digging for laying cables...
	www.dqindia.com /content/top_stories/102122704.asp (2790 words)

	An article on Sunil Bharti Mittal CMD Bharti Group
		It was Sunil who started in business (making cycle parts in Ludhiana, India) in 1976 at the age of 18 with borrowed capital of Rs 20,000.
		Mittal prides himself on a string of firsts: "the first push-button, the first cordless, the first answering machines, the first fax machines".
		Replies Mittal: "I've walked the corridors of power and there's a big positive change, which is very palpable at the higher level, since licensing has mostly been dismantled.
	www.lifepositive.com /Mind/work/corporate-management/sunilbharti-mittal.asp (854 words)

	Wadhwani Foundation
		Sunil Mittal's leadership, Bharti Enterprises has grown to become a US$ 1 billion telecom company, employing over 5,000 people.
		Mittal is regarded as one of the pioneers of the telecom sector and Bharti enjoys a strong presence in mobile communications, fixed line services, and domestic and international long distance services in India.
		Mittal has been the recipient of many awards, including "Businessman of the year, 2002" by Business India, India's leading business magazine.
	www.wadhwani-foundation.org /programs/nenadvisors/sunil.htm (106 words)

	Sunil Bharti Mittal now on Standard Chartered board \| Business News
		Mittal has been a very successful businessman who has become the face of telecom in India.
		Sunil Mittal is Asia’s Businessman of the Year
		Sunil Mittal is now Chairman and CEO of Bharti Enterprises
	business.techwhack.com /2444/sunil-bharti-mittal (278 words)

	BBC NEWS \| South Asia \| Who is Sunil Mittal?
		Meet Sunil Mittal, who controls the $2.5bn Bharti group in India with interests in telecom and retail, and has struck a joint venture deal with Wal-Mart, the US retail giant.
		The retail foray by Sunil Mittal - no relation to Indian steel magnate Lakshmi Mittal - is an indication that he can quickly spot opportunities in the sunrise sectors.
		For Bharti too, access to finance won't be a problem because Mr Mittal is known to be a finance whiz kid, an excellent negotiator and adept at raising cash.
	news.bbc.co.uk /2/hi/south_asia/6090612.stm (797 words)

	Sunil Mittal, Famous India People, Famous India
		Sunil Bharti Mittal Chairman and Group Managing Director, Bharti Enterprises, has at the age of 43 created a Telecom Giant in India.
		Sunil Is An Alumnus Of Harvard Business School India's leading telecom conglomerate, has been at the forefront of technology and has revolutionized telecommunications with its world-class brands, products and services.
		In 2002, Dataquest, a leading Indian IT magazine, named Mittal the Dataquest IT Man of the Year He Is The Receipient Of Ceo Of The Year, 2002” Award (World Hrd Congress).
	www.famous-india.com /people-in-india/sunil-mittal.html (333 words)

	Bharti keen in Hutchison: Sunil Mittal : Bharti, Sunil Mittal,Hutchison, Wal-Mart : IBNLive.com : CNN-IBN
		Mittal insists all he had to do was file with the RBI for the Wal-Mart franchise agreement.
		Sunil Mittal says AXA built itself into one of the world's largest insurance companies and Bharti-AXA hopes to do the same.
		Mittal believes Vodafone wants to buy more but Bharti wants public floats and they will not allow them to go into the market.
	www.ibnlive.com /news/bharti-keen-in-hutchison-sunil-mittal/28485-7.html (620 words)

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