Mumbai, Sep 6 (IANS): Telecom services provider Reliance Communications Friday announced the appointment of Deepak Khanna as chief executive officer, India Enterprise Business.

Prior to joining Reliance Communications, Khanna has worked with Bharti Airtel and Tulip Telecom.

Assuming his new responsibilities at the Reliance Communications campus in Navi Mumbai, Khanna said: “Reliance is ideally positioned in the enterprises domain, already serving over 45,000 large, medium and small enterprises, including nearly 850 of the top 1,000 corporates in India.”

“We see exciting growth potential in the enterprise business in the years ahead, and expect to register 30 percent per annum compounded growth in this space in both, revenues and profitability over the next 5 years," he added.

Reliance Communications, with a customer base of over 134 million including over 2.5 million individual overseas retail customers, ranks among the top 6 telecom companies in the world by number of customers in a single country. It owns and operates the world's largest next generation IP-enabled connectivity infrastructure, comprising over 277,000 kilometres of fibre optic cable systems in India, the US, Europe, Middle East and the Asia Pacific region.