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Airtel Now the Fifth Largest Network in terms of Minutes talked on a network.

7 posts · originally from https://geek.digit.in/community/threads/airtel-now-the-fifth-largest-network-in-terms-of-minutes-talked-on-a-network.121178/

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orionindia Original post #1
Sep 21, 2009 at 7:54 AM
Bharti Airtel has been declared as the fifth largest operator in the world on the basis of minutes talked on a network. It achieved 141 billion mobile minutes on its network way ahead of other operators such as sprint, Movil and so on. The only networks which were ahead are -
The four other operators which occupied first four places are as follows.

1. China Mobile with 726 billion mobile minutes

2. Verizon with 226 billion mobile minutes

3. AT&T came up third with 166 billion mobile minutes

4. Vodafone with 156 billion mobile minutes.

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Coool
Coool #2
Sep 21, 2009 at 2:59 PM
:shock: indians itnisara baath karthe kya??:D
MetalheadGautham
Sep 21, 2009 at 3:20 PM
:shock: indians itnisara baath karthe kya??:D
Yup.

But unfortunately, Airtel can't overtake vodafone now that vodafone has entered India and are competing strongly with airtel in student circles.
thewisecrab
Sep 21, 2009 at 3:26 PM
he he.... with a billion people, most of whom are youth, this is bound to happen :p
Krow
Krow #5
Sep 21, 2009 at 5:49 PM
This number is only going to increase. Soon we will be right up there with China Mobile! :(
max_demon
Sep 21, 2009 at 10:03 PM
i thought it will be reliance , 90% indians have reliance (blind guess)
Krow
Krow #7
Sep 22, 2009 at 1:34 PM
^Reliance for CDMA, but many ppl I know dont buy reliance for bad quality of phones provided. GSM is mainly Airtel and Vodafone due to aggressive marketing and cheaper call rates and cheap phones with good battery and build quality. (Nokia FTW!) :)