BHARTI AIRTEL LTD.

RESEARCH REPORT BY:

- KUNIKA JAISWAL
 Headquartered in India, airtel is a global telecommunications
company with operations in 18 countries across south Asia
and Africa. The company ranks amongst the top three mobile Established
operators globally and its mobile network covers a population July 07,1995, as a Public Limited Company
of over two billion people. Airtel is India’s largest integrated
telecom provider and the second largest mobile operator in

General Africa. At the end of march 2021, airtel had over 471million
customers across its operations.

overview Airtel's portfolio includes high speed 4g/4.5G mobile Revenue

broadband, airtel xstream fiber that promises speeds upto
1gbps, converged digital TV solutions through the airtel
xstream 4K hybrid box, digital payments through airtel
payments bank as well as an integrated suite of services
across connectivity, collaboration, cloud and security that
serves over one million businesses.
Airtel's ott services include airtel thanks app for self-care,
airtel xstream app for video, wynk music for entertainment
and airtel bluejeans for video conferencing. In addition, airtel
has forged strategic partnerships with hundreds of companies
across the world to enable the airtel platform to deliver an
array of consumer and enterprise services.
Rs 1,006,158 million (full year ended
march 31, 2021) rs 846,765 million (full
year ended march 31, 2020)
Customer Base
India: 321.4 million mobile services; 3.1
million homes and 17.7 million digital
TV services (status as on march 31,
2021) africa: 118.2 million mobile
services; south asia: 2.9 million mobile
services customers (status as on march
31, 2021)
SHAREHOLDING PATTERN OF THE COMPANY

Percent of Share (%)

5.38

6.05

Promoters Mutual Funds/Uti

12.86
Fi/Banks/Insurance Non-Institutions

Government FII

55.86
 MANAGEMENT OF THE COMPANY

Mr. Sunil Bharti Mittal (Chairman) Mr. Shishir Priyadarshi Ms. Chua Sock Koong Mr. Manish Kejriwal

Ms. Nisaba Godrej Mr. Dinesh Kumar Mittal Mr. Tao Yih Arthur Mr. Rakesh Bharti
Lang Mittal

Mr. V. K. Viswanathan Ms. Kimsuka Narasimhan Mr. Gopal Vittal

Airtel’s Board comprises
11 members, which
include a Chairman, a
Managing Director & CEO
(India & South Asia), three
Non-Executive Non-
Independent Directors and
six Independent Non-
Executive Directors. There
are three woman directors
including two women
Independent directors.
 SWOT ANALYSIS
STREGNTHS WEAKNESSES

1. Leading telecom player with operations in over 18 countries 1. Decreasing customer base led to loss in revenue.
across Asia and Africa
2. High quality network and services
3. Leading provider of tower and related infrastructure through
subsidiary venture.
4. Strong brand value among customers.
5. Strong set of strategic alliances & partnerships.
6. Diverse portfolio of B2B services.

OPPORTUNITES THREATS

1. Collaboration with Nokia for upgradation to 5G 1. Aggressive competition in Indian telecom market
2. Exercising new platform like digital TV services, Payment 2. Levy of one-time spectrum charge (OTSC) on telecom
banks etc. operators in India
3. Initiatives like ‘mera pehla smartphone’ may boost the 3. Impact of pandemic on mobile money business.
demand for mobile services.
4. Establishes infrastructure would help in efficient use of
Capex.
 COMPETITIVE ANALYSIS

The Vodafone-
Idea merger has For customer
dethroned Airtel as Acquisition
The predatory the largest telecom Shift of the To capture the rural
companies have Companies have
pricing adopted by operator and helped it The new services of Business Model subscriber base
increased spending started a minimum
the New Entrant in expanding Add-on from voice driven Reliance launched
towards mandatory recharge
Reliance Jio has led operations such as Complimentary to Data driven, Jio phone which
Advertisement and to get clear idea of
the Incumbent firms providing 4G services Data Packs is which caught the provided huge cash
Tower Active subscriber
reduced top line to customers in affecting Airtel. other players by inflow to the
Jharkhand and Bihar Infrastructure base.
margins. surprise. company.
where it previously requiring more
only provided 2G and Funding.
3G services.