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New Delhi, July 21, 2006: Bharti Teletech, India’s largest
manufacturer of fixed line phones, has been awarded the "Top
Fixed Line Phones Company Award" for 2006 by Voice & Data.
The company, which manufactures India’s largest selling telephone
brand Beetel, was given the award for maintaining its apex position
in the fixed phones segment in the year 2005-06. The award was presented
to Mr. Pawan Kapur, CEO, Bharti Teletech and is a reaffirmation
of Beetel’s market leadership in the Fixed Line Phone segment,
in the country.
The Voice & Data Annual awards, being presented for the seventh
consecutive year, are seen as the hallmark of the Indian Telecom
& IT Industry. The awards are decided after extensive in-house
research and analysis by Voice & Data. The research findings
are published in the annual V&D 100 survey conducted by the
publication.
Bharti Teletech has consolidated its dominant leadership position
in all three segments of the domestic telephone market - the operator
market comprising of purchases by BSNL and MTNL, the open retail
market and the private service provider’s market. The company
closed the financial year 2005-06 with sales of 6.2 million telephones
that translates into a market share of 54%.
Accepting the award, Mr. Pawan Kapur, CEO, Bharti Teletech, said,
“Bharti Teletech has always taken the lead in introducing state-of-the-art
phones in the country. It is indeed a matter of great pride that
we have been selected as the “Top Fixed Line Phones Company”
for 2006 and is recognition of the hard work put in by each member
of the Beetel family. The award serves to reiterate our commitment
in providing the highest quality products at competitive prices
to our customers.”
Bharti Teletech offers over 45 different Beetel phone models with
prices ranging from Rs. 295 to Rs. 3995 across basic, feature and
cordless phones catering to customers across segments. The company
was the first to launch in India fixed line SMS phone.
About Bharti Teletech:
Bharti Teletech is India’s leading telephone instrument manufacturing
company and is the largest in the globe outside China. Established
in 1985, the company’s manufacturing operations are spread
across two ISO-9000 certified plants in Mapusa (Goa) and Ludhiana
(Punjab) with an installed capacity of 6 million telephone units
annually. An in-house Centre for Excellence with industrial and
engineering design capability and equipped with facility for product
reliability and life tests ensures a quality standard that compares
with the best internationally.
Bharti Teletech produces a comprehensive basket of customer premise
equipments, comprising of over 45 models spanning the basic, feature-rich
and cordless telephone categories, under the Beetel brand. Bharti
Teletech commands a market share of 48% in the retail market, 60%
& 94% in tender market & private service provider segments
respectively. The company has been at the forefront of growing the
open retail market by providing feature-rich and world-class telephone
products at affordable prices. Bharti Teletech currently exports
to 30 countries in five continents.
Bharti Teletech has also tied up with Thomson for marketing of
GE phones in India and has also entered into an alliance with Motorola
for distribution of their complete range of mobile phones and accessories
on an All India basis.
Besides fixed line and mobile phones the company also markets Set
Top Boxes, Modems, Fixed Cellular Phones & Fixed Cellular &
Wireless Terminals.
Bharti Teletech is a subsidiary of India’s leading integrated
telecommunications group, Bharti Enterprises.
For Further Information, please contact:
Deeba Ali / Niraj Sharma /Garima Misra
Rediffusion –DYR Public Relations
Ph: 011-41681107 / 41669349
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