Sunil Mittal

Today in the series of IBLA winners! The ultimate honour goes to a visionary who has spent a lifetime not just building up his company into a colossus with a global reach, but putting Indian industry on the world map with a bang.

Telecom Minister Kapil Sibal today said the government will take a final decision on reallocation of spectrum before the auction of airwaves begins.

Bharti Airtel today launched a network experience centre (NEC) at Manesar to monitor its various services across India and South Asia from a single location.

Billionaire industrialist Mukesh Ambani's Reliance Industries is preparing to bid in India's forthcoming mobile auctions, with potentially far-reaching consequences for the country's battered USD 32 billion telecoms market, according to people familiar with the group.

Maruti Suzuki India Managing Director and CEO Shinzo Nakanishi's remuneration is amongst the lowest compared to other chiefs of private sector firms that form the part of BSE 30-stock benchmark, Sensex.

Telecom major Bharti Airtel's Chairman and Managing Director Sunil Mittal saw his full-year pay package dip to nearly Rs 21.3 crore in 2011-12, even as he is entitled to an annual remuneration of up to Rs 70 crore.

Consolidation in the Sri Lankan telecom market is important, Bharti Airtel Chairman Sunil Bharti Mittal has said. When asked if Airtel has identified any particular company, he said, "There is no opportunity at the moment... There got to be some consolidation in markets that are fragmented".

Chief executives of telecom companies are likely to meet Telecom Minister Kapil Sibal on Monday, the second meeting in a week, on the issue of high base price fixed for auction of 2G spectrum.

CNBC-TV18 reports that the chief executives of four telecom compaines are meeting members of the spectrum eGoM and top government officials to lobby against the TRAI's 2G auction recommendations.

Recent regulatory developments, which have led to huge uncertainty, could have significant implications for the future of telecom sector and impact India's global competitiveness, Bharti Airtel Chairman Sunil Mittal said today.

Major telecom firms Airtel, Vodafone and Idea have threatened to exit 3G services if the government does not approve their pact to provide intra-circle roaming.

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Amid concerns of economic slowdown and policy paralysis, noted industrialist and telecom czar Sunil Mittal today said "business is better than perception".

The markets have been challenging, both locally and globally as well acknowledged the nation’s top telecom service provider Bharti Airtel.

Country's largest telcom service provider Bharti Airtel's net profits slipped marginally to Rs 1,207 crore against Rs. 1215.2 crore (QoQ).

The first time Mukesh Ambani disrupted Indian telecom, Sunil Mittal survived, even emerged stronger. Can he pull it off a second time?

Bharti Enterprises, the parent company of Bharti Airtel, today announced that Sarvjit Singh Dhillon will succeed Manik Jhangiani as the group Chief Financial Officer (CFO) next year.

Bharti Airtel on Monday said that it has sought shareholders' approval for an up to Rs 70 crore annual pay package to chief Sunil Mittal in the next five yeas, but any hike would not be given in the current fiscal.

Bharti Airtel, India's top mobile carrier, is seeing stiff competition in the Indian market easing and feels consolidation in the 15-player market is imminent, Chairman Sunil Mittal said in the company's annual report.

Ahead of Prime Minister Manmohan Singh's visit here, India today said it is finalising a trade-opening pact with south African nations to step up the country's commerce with the continent to USD 70 billion by 2015.