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Jump to: navigation, search Bharti Airtel Limited | | Type | Public company
BSE: 532454 NSE: BHARTIARTL | Industry | Telecommunications | Founded | 7 July 1995 (1995-07-07) | Founder(s) | Sunil Bharti Mittal | Headquarters | New Delhi, India | Area served | South Asia, Africa and the Channel Islands | Key people | Sunil Bharti Mittal
(Chairman) and (MD) | Products | Fixed-line and mobile telephony, broadband and fixed-line internet services, digital television, IPTV and network services | Revenue | $9.290 billion (2010)[1] | Operating income | $2.313 billion (2010)[1] | Profit | $2.079 billion (2010)[1] | Total assets | $15.527 billion (2010)[1] | Total equity | $9.491 billion (2010)[1] | Employees | 22,858 (June 2011)[1] | Parent | Bharti Enterprises (63.45%)
SingTel (32.15%)
Vodafone (4.4%) | Subsidiaries | Airtel Africa
Airtel Digital TV | Website | airtel.in |
Bharti Airtel Limited (NSE: BHARTIARTL, BSE: 532454), commonly known as Airtel, is an Indian telecommunications company that operates in 20 countries across South Asia, Africa and the Channel Islands. It operates a GSM network in all countries, providing 2G or 3G services depending upon the country of operation. Airtel is the fifth largest telecom operator in the world with about 230.8 million subscribers across 19 countries at the end of June 2011.[2] It is the largest cellular service provider in India, with over 171.85 million subscribers as of August 2011.[3] Airtel is the 3rd largest in-country mobile operator by subscriber base, behind China Mobile and China Unicom.
Airtel is the largest provider of mobile telephony and second largest provider of fixed telephony in India, and is also a provider of broadband and subscription television services. It offers its telecom services under the Airtel brand and is headed by Sunil Bharti Mittal. Bharti Airtel is the first Indian telecom service provider to