Sunil Bharti Mittal founded the Bharti Group. Bharti Airtel Limited is a leading
Telecommunications Company with operations in 20 countries across Asia and Africa.
Headquartered in New Delhi, the company ranks amongst the top 5 mobile service providers
Globally in terms of subscribers. In India, the company's product offerings include 2G, 3G
And 4G services, fixed line, high speed broadband through DSL, IPTV, DTH, enterprise
Services including national & international long distance services to carriers. In the rest of the
Geographies, it offers 2G, 3G mobile services. Bharti Airtel had over 18.41 crore customer base till January.
Business Life cycle
In 1983, Mittal was in an agreement with Germany's Siemens to manufacture push-button
Telephone models for the Indian market.
In 1986, Mittal incorporated Bharti Telecom Limited (BTL), and his company became the
First in India to offer push-button telephones, establishing the basis of Bharti Enterprises. By
The early 1990s, Sunil Mittal had also launched the country's first fax machines and its first
Cordless telephones.
In 1992, Mittal won a bid to build a cellular phone network in Delhi. In 1995, Mittal
Incorporated the cellular operations as Bharti Tele-Ventures and launched service in Delhi. In
1996, cellular service was extended to Himachal Pradesh.
In 1999, Bharti Enterprises acquired control of JT Holdings, and extended cellular operations to Karnataka and Andhra Pradesh. In 2000, Bharti acquired control of Skycell
Communications, in Chennai. In 2001, the company acquired control of Spice Cell in
Calcutta.
In 2002 Bharti Enterprises went public, and the company was listed on Bombay Stock
Exchange and National Stock Exchange of India.
In 2003, the cellular phone operations were rebranded under the single Airtel brand. In 2004,
Bharti acquired control of Hexacom and entered Rajasthan.
In 2005, Bharti extended its network to Andaman and Nicobar. This expansion allowed it to
Offer voice