Bharti Airtel, which intends to launch the Airtel brand in Africa by October 2010, will be investing $800 million to $1,000 mil lion in 2010-11 for network rollout and services

Bharti Airtel, which intends to launch the Airtel brand in Africa by October 2010, will be investing $800 million to $1,000 million in 2010-11 for network rollout and services. The company intends to finalise vendors for the same in the next two months.
It has already invited proposals from its existing partners including Nokia Siemens Networks, Ericsson and Alcatel-Lucent as well as companies like Huawei Technologies and Hewlett Packard in this regard. The process of outsourcing IT operations has also begun, with Tata Consultancy Services, Infosys, IBM, Tech Mahindra and Wipro submitting bids for a deal worth around $1 billion.