Sunil Bharti Mittal
The Kiel Institute Global Economy Prize 2009
Sunil Bharti Mittal (born 1957) is Chairman of the Bharti Group, India’s leading telecommunication company. His company operates India’s largest cell phone network working with the GSM technical standard. After establishing a company in the IT hardware business, he secured the rights to New Delhi’s cellular network in 1992, together with a foreign partner. In 1995 he founded Bharti Cellular Ltd. (BCL) which provides cell phone services in India and other countries. Sunil Mittal has been honored with many prizes and recognized as an outstanding business personality and a pioneer in the IT business of the Indian subcontinent.
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