Word: bharti
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...Delhi says it is committed to reform as a way of helping farmers boost their incomes, its left-wing members are horrified by the prospect of a flood of organized retail outlets putting mom-and-pop stores out of business. Wal-Mart, which has tied up with Bharti to set up a chain of retail stores to take on Reliance, has drawn protests, including a demonstration last February in which a generic Wal-Mart executive was burned in effigy, even before the opening of the first store. (Wal-Mart said it would not comment for this story.) Earlier this month...
Vodaphone's re-entry into India through a purchase of a 10% stake in Bharti Tele-Ventures, a mobile-phone operator with nearly 15 million subscribers, is an indication that India is too important a market to ignore. Thanks to a booming economy, India has 65 million mobile-phone users; the number grows more than 2 million each month. The Indian mobile-phone-services market is worth about $5 billion. And this time the welcome mat won't get yanked: earlier this year, the government permitted foreigners to own a majority stake in Indian telecoms. Prashant Singhal, a telecom expert...
...Bangalore--only engineering geeks needed apply. Now more diverse foreign businesses are taking advantage of India's low-cost, highly educated work force. Add the fast-growing Indian companies, especially in the service sector, and the result is that good jobs become available to anyone with a college degree. Bharti Tele-Ventures, India's largest mobile-phone service provider, has hired 1,600 customer-service staff over the past two years. Wipro Spectramind had only 200 employees at the end of 2000; now it employs...
...Bangalore?only engineering geeks needed apply. Now more diverse foreign businesses are taking advantage of India's low-cost, highly educated work force. Add the fast-growing Indian companies, especially in the service sector, and the result is that good jobs become available to anyone with a college degree. Bharti Tele-Ventures, India's largest mobile-phone service provider, has hired 1,600 customer-service staff over the past two years. Wipro Spectramind had only 200 employees at the end of 2000; now it employs...
...economy. U.S. telecom-equipment maker Motorola says sales of its mobile phones in India increased 200% in the first six months over the same period last year. Tearing a strategy page from its very successful China playbook, Motorola targets youngsters with cheap phones. In June Motorola joined up with Bharti to offer phones at $64? an offer it claims is the cheapest in India. "The attitude of the young generation is to enjoy life and spend money," says Pramod Saxena, president for Motorola in India. "We're looking at India as a major growth market...