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New Delhi, August 19, 2009 - Alcatel-Lucent (Euronext Paris and NYSE:
ALU) and Bharti Airtel Limited, Asia’s leading integrated telecom services
provider today announced the appointment of Arnaud Soubelet as the CEO of their
joint venture Alcatel-Lucent Network Management Services India Ltd
(ALNMSI).
The joint venture will manage Bharti Airtel’s pan India wireline broadband
and telephone services. It will also support their transition to next
generation networks (NGN) to offer advanced services like high-speed internet,
triple play, media-rich value-added services, MPLS, virtual private networks
(VPN) for both retail and business customers of Airtel. The new entity which
began pan India operations on August 1st with 4,000 employees, is
headquartered in NCR (National Capital Region).
“I am delighted to be part of Alcatel-Lucent Network Managed Services India.
This joint venture is a landmark being the first managed services operations
for fixed networks in India”, said Arnaud Soubelet, CEO ALNMSI. “This is a
great step towards transforming Bharti Airtel’s network to next generation IP
technology while improving the quality of service. By driving superior service
for Bharti Airtel’s customers, we are looking to establish the new joint
venture as the reference for wireline managed services and IP
transformation.”
Arnaud Soubelet began his career with Alcatel-Lucent in 1988. Over the last
20 years, he has held several key assignments in France, Latin America, Greece,
Egypt and India across sales, enterprises and managed services. Arnaud holds
post graduate degrees in business administration and business law from the
Sorbonne University in Paris.
Alcatel-Lucent operates more than 80 networks on behalf of service providers
around the world, covering more than 180 million subscribers, and enjoying a
leadership position in multi-technology and multi-vendor Managed Services.
About Bharti Airtel Limited
Bharti Airtel Limited, a group company of Bharti Enterprises, is Asia’s leading
integrated telecom services provider with operations in India and Sri Lanka and
an aggregate of over 108 million customers as of end of July 2009, consisting
of 105.18 million mobile customers. Bharti Airtel has been ranked among six
best performing technology companies in the world by BusinessWeek.
Bharti Airtel is structured into three strategic business units - Mobile
services, Telemedia services and Enterprise services. The mobile business
offers services in India and Sri Lanka. The Telemedia business provides
broadband, IPTV and telephone services in 95 cities. The Enterprise business
provides end-to-end telecom solutions to corporate customers and national and
international long distance services to carriers. All these services are
provided under the Airtel brand. Airtel’s national high-speed optic fibre
network currently spans over 104,540 Rkms covering all the major cities in
India. The company has two international landing stations in Chennai that
connects two submarine cable systems - i2i to Singapore and SEA-ME-WE-4 to
Europe. For more information, visit  http://www.airtel.in/
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