Airtel-Road Map

Group 4 (SEC B)
Rohit (92) Mohit (97) Monika (119) Dheeraj (118)

Overview
Services are available across 465,482 towns covering about 87 per cent of the countrys population.(March 2013) As of March 31, 2013, it had 188.19 million wireless subscribers and 21.69 per cent market share. operates in 20 countries offer 4G services in India ( ahead of its competitors)

Challenges
Hyper competition, a difficult regulatory environment, falling margins and a decline in almost all operational metrics. Debt payment, which stood at Rs 638.39 billion as of March 31, 2013. This debt was raised largely to fund the $9 billion acquisition of Zains African operations in 2010. Financial pressure as operator needs funds to pay the one-time spectrum fee and to renew its licences for the Delhi and Kolkata circles in November 2014

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The net loss for the companys African operations increased from Rs 132.86 billion in 2011-12 to Rs 220.98 billion in 2012-13 due to reduce tariffs by about 30 per cent African alliance is costly as compared to India due to high manpower, transportation and other costs

Initiatives
Cost-cutting will not work Improve its quality of service Improving network efficiency Reducing operational expenditure Rural telecom penetration Stabilising its international operations (AFRICA)

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More focus towards non-voice segment like DTH businesses etc Cater other South-Asian countries like Myanmar which has just 10% wireless penetration, 60 million customers, with no competition Can focus on enterprise customers to increase revenues by efficient cloud-based solutions, data centre services, managed video offerings

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