Sunil Mittal: The Evolution of the Celular Phone in India

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ORIGINATOR OF CELLUAR PHONE REVOLUTION IN INDIA

“I think that people just have this core desire to express who they are...”

Sunil Mittal.
Excellence is vital for acquiring success. Excellence is what makes success run after you, but when you want success, run after excellence.
Very few individuals are there in this globe who made success run after them. Energy, determination and that magical willpower to do something invincible marks the journey of great man through the untraded dark roads to the brightest morning ever. Every successful man has that unique cognizant power to realize all the possible opportunities one have around them.
Sunil Mittal, the man behind the telecoms boom in India. The strong resoluteness and the will to do something drove Sunil’s dream to height like this, where no can easily beat him down. Dreams aren’t possibly those which you see with eyes closed in that imaginative world where wind seems to flow and the moon walks but rather the dreams are those which you see with your eyes wide open, it won’t make you sleep.
Sunil Mittal is often credited as India’s poster boy for entrepreneurship as he has created a phenomenal juggernaut of a company in Bharti Airtel.

Sunil Mittal, India’s poster boy is a big philanthropist. In fact, his name comes across world’s top 25 philanthropists. His vision lies in imparting education to the needy.
This is a bitter truth that apart from being the fastest developing country of the world and attaining so much we are still lagging behind in the field of education. We hold on to having the most number of illiterate of the world. Every two out of five illiterate is from India.
Mittal is very much effective in t...

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...e has never done before. For the immediate market were Taiwan, Japan, and Korea. He went back to those areas looking for some new commodity which also in turn should entertain less capital investment. Mittal’s quest took him all the way to Taiwan and their famous trade fairs.
“We are talking to all world majors” ...one heard Mittal saying these lines once.

It’s through this tough phase, when India was using rotary phones with no speed dials or no re-dials, Sunil saw those push button phones, instantly he thought of replacing the rotary phones and introducing the push button telephones in the Indian market. Sunil sensed his chance and started importing the new gen phones from Taiwan.
By the starting of 1990s, Mittal was successfully making fax machines, cordless phones and other telecom gears. In 1992, Mittal clinched a deal with the French Telecom group Vivendi.

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