exv99w9

Exhibit 99.9

Jan 18, 2006 Media Interviews on the Financial Performance of Wipro Limited for the
quarter ended December 31, 2005

Newspaper: Business Standard
Interviewee: TK Kurien, President, Wipro BPO SBU, Wipro Limited

Female Speaker

Hello.

Rajesh

Hello.

Female Speaker

Rajesh?

Rajesh

Yes.

Female Speaker

Hi Rajesh, Sunanda, I will just put you on call with Mr. TK Kurien.

Rajesh

Okay Wipro, somebody says me its an Fortex, I was wondering what is this Fortex.

Female Speaker

No, this is a Wipro call.

Moderator

Hello, Mr. Kurien?

TK Kurien

Yes.

Moderator

Mr. Kurien, we have Rajesh Kuru from Business Standard online

TK Kurien

Hi how are you?

Rajesh

Hello, how are you sir. Fine sir.

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Rajesh

Hello.

TK Kurien

Yes, go ahead.

Rajesh

You tell me sir, you are bagging new clients I have been told.

TK Kurien

Well, that’s what we reported.

Rajesh

Yes, it is yet to reach here sir.

TK Kurien

Mr. Rajesh, tell me any specific question I can answer around the clients.

Rajesh

Pardon.

TK Kurien

Any specific question you want answered around clients.

Rajesh

Yes, I mean what is this number sir, 63?

TK Kurien

Totally as a company we have got 61 new customers.

Rajesh

New customers in this quarter?

TK Kurien

And BPO we got 6.

Rajesh

BPO you got 6. Sir this 61 came from what verticals sir, which all are those verticals?

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TK Kurien

You know what, I can send you a copy of our press release, that has got everything in it.

Female Speaker

Mr. Kurien, I will do that.

TK Kurien

Yes, okay.

Rajesh

Yes sir, on the BPO front, you have got 6 new clients.

TK Kurien

6 new clients.

Rajesh

Okay, now what is our total value coming up to from the clients?

TK Kurien

We can’t disclose values, primarily because of we have confidentiality agreement with our customers, but very broadly, the areas where they are is they are in banking and financial services, then they are in back office, like finance, accounts and procurement. These are the two large areas that we have got deals where we have taken over the entire finance process of the company. And similarly, we are doing global procurement to one of our customers.

Rajesh

Can you tell me which are the geographies you have bagged this 6 clients?

TK Kurien

All are US, UK, and Europe.

Rajesh

US, UK, and, Europe?

TK Kurien

Yes.

Rajesh

And can you tell me some figures like what would be the tenure if the contracts?

TK Kurien

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Basically, it will range between three years to five years.

Rajesh

Three to five years, and what kind of a revenue increase are you expecting from this new contract sir?

TK Kurien

That is one figure I can’t tell you.

Rajesh

No percentage wise, total.

TK Kurien

Even that I can’t tell you, because you know, we don’t give revenue guidance, you know that, right. We give overall revenue guidance, we don’t give it deal wise.

Rajesh

Yes, but would this news clients which is new, 6 BPO clients, would require you to put in additional man force?

TK Kurien

Of course, yes.

Rajesh

Yes at what level, numbers?

TK Kurien

What we would see, again total overall, let me just give you this quarter. This quarter we have added on 1500 people to our head count, 1400 sorry.

Rajesh

1400, in what period of time?

TK Kurien

We have added 1400 people to our head count this quarter.

Rajesh

This quarter, okay, so you feel that kind of a similar kind a increase in the next quarter also?

TK Kurien

I can’t give forward-looking statements, but we would like to grow as fast we can.

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Rajesh

Okay, sir, anything on this service sector, BPO, finance, banking, and BFSI, and other back office. On the back office, are there any service sectors, any major clients; Fortune 500 or Fortune 100 or something like that?

TK Kurien

Mostly, I will put it this way. It would be out of the 6 customers that we have got, three of them would be Fortune 1000 customers.

Rajesh

Two of them would be Fortune 1000 okay, others are also big companies right?

TK Kurien

The other 3 would be you know, if you look at a Fortune 2000, they would come within Fortune 2000. The smallest company that we have won, I think in terms of top line, its about to think $2 billion.

Rajesh

Two billion dollars, in the top line companies?

TK Kurien

That’s right.

Rajesh

Okay, and this would be you said that it would be 3 to 5 years tenure and will this have an extension, a clause for extension on satisfactory completion?

TK Kurien

That depends on contract to contract.

Rajesh

Agreed, yes, but most of them would have an extension provision, right?

TK Kurien

They would have extension, they would have closure, it depends on the customer.

Rajesh

Okay, but for this, again I am coming back to that same question but for this year, you are not ready to reveal the numbers account which would increase at the Wipro center?

TK Kurien

I can’t do that.

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Rajesh

Okay sir, because Q3 had a 24% jump, what was the contribution of BPO segment?

TK Kurien

See, BPO we expanded our margins by 350 basis points. If you look at the total overall operating margin, which went up by 0.4% over the last year for the same quarter, 0.3% out of the 0.4% was because of BPO.

Rajesh

Okay, any plans to expand to other geographies in India sir.

TK Kurien

Not in India. we are going to Bucharest, Romania.

Rajesh

You are going to Bucharest, Romania, okay, and..

TK Kurien

That’s the first answer.

Rajesh

When would this be setup?

TK Kurien

End of Q1 of this year.

Rajesh

And what would be the investment?

TK Kurien

We would probably have about 250 seats there, so you know you can calculate the investment accordingly. I can’t give investment numbers.

Rajesh

I understand, and which clients you be servicing, any particular process or any particular vertical?

TK Kurien

Our European customers?

Rajesh

Yes.

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TK Kurien

We would service both customers around technical help desk, what we call technical engineering support services, and also we would do back office work, like finance accounts.

Rajesh

What about contracts?

TK Kurien

I am sorry Rajesh. I am loosing you out.

Rajesh

Is any contract has been lined up. Are there any contracts lined up?

TK Kurien

I can’t tell you that.

Rajesh

I understand, and this is one for the sake of record sir, what is the reason for expanding in to Romania? Are you looking it as a gateway to the European market?

TK Kurien

Absolutely, yes. Its going to be our gateway to Europe.

Rajesh

The European countries?

TK Kurien

Absolutely.

Rajesh

And okay by the end of the Q1, okay sir, investments you are not ready to reveal. Okay, that is all I had sir.

Female Speaker

Any other questions Rajesh?

Rajesh

No, that is all I had, thanks a lot, bye.

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