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Airtel emerges world’s third largest network

Latest figures released by WCIS showed Bharti Airtel now has more than 303 million subscribers, making it the world’s third largest network.

Airtel has operations in 20 countries across South Asia and Africa, and has moved up one position in the global rankings.

Airtel began operations in November 1995 in New Delhi (India) and in less than two decades it has emerged as one of the top brands in the emerging markets with an unmatched scale and diversity of operations.

The top five global mobile operators by customers are China Mobile 626.27mn, Vodafone Group 403.08mn, Bharti Airtel 303.10mn, China Unicom 299.09mn and America Movil at 274.14mn.

Sunil Bharti Mittal, Chairman, Bharti Airtel, said: “This is a major landmark in the journey of Airtel and underlines the strength of our business model and our brand that is loved by customers across 20 countries. Today, we seamlessly manage global scale operations in diverse geographies and deliver the same world-class services to each customers, this perhaps is one of our biggest achievements. I want to thank our employees and our business partners for supporting us through this exciting journey and with the mobile internet play about to happen in the developing world, things will only get brighter from here on.”

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