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This article is about Bharti Airtel worldwide. For Bharti Airtel's telecommunication operations in
India, see Airtel India.

Bharti Airtel Limited

Type Public

Traded as BSE: 532454NSE: BHARTIARTL

BSE SENSEX Constituent

ISIN INE397D01024

Industry Telecommunications

Founded 7 July 1995[1]

Founder Sunil Bharti Mittal

Headquarters Bharti Crescent, 1, Nelson Mandela Road,

New Delhi, India[1]

Area served India, Sri Lanka, Bangladesh, and Africa

Key people Sunil Bharti Mittal (Chairman and MD)

Products Fixed line and mobile

telephony, broadband and fixed-line internet
services, digital television and IPTV

Revenue 966.021 billion (US$14 billion) (2016)

 Operating 341 billion (US$5.1 billion) (2016)
income

Profit 54 billion (US$800 million) (2016)

Total assets 2,248 billion (US$33 billion) (2016)

Total equity 708 billion (US$11 billion) (2016)

Number of 24,868 (2016)[2]

employees

Parent Bharti Enterprises (68%)

SingTel (36.27%) [3][4]

Subsidiaries Airtel India

Airtel Sri Lanka
airtel Africa
Wynk
Robi (25%)

Website www.airtel.com

Bharti Airtel Limited is an Indian global telecommunications services company based in New
Delhi, India. It operates in 18 countries across South Asia and Africa. Airtel
provides GSM, 3G and 4G LTE mobile services, fixed line broadband and voice services
depending upon the country of operation. It is the largest mobile network operator in India and
the third largest in the world with 365 million subscribers.[5][6] Airtel was named India's second
most valuable brand in the first ever Brandz ranking by Millward Brown and WPP plc.[7]

Airtel is credited with pioneering the business strategy of outsourcing all of its business
operations except marketing, sales and finance and building the 'minutes factory' model of low
cost and high volumes. The strategy has since been adopted by several operators. [8] Airtel's
equipment is provided and maintained by Ericsson and Nokia Solutions and Networks[9] whereas
IT support is provided by IBM.[10] The transmission towers are maintained by subsidiaries and
joint venture companies of Bharti including Bharti Infratel and Indus Towers in India.[11] Ericsson
agreed for the first time to be paid by the minute for installation an