This article is about Bharti Airtel worldwide. For Bharti Airtel's telecommunication operations in India, see Airtel India.
Not to be confused with Aircel.
Bharti Airtel
Trade name
Airtel
Company type
Public
Traded as
BSE: 532454
NSE: BHARTIARTL
BSE SENSEX Constituent
NSE NIFTY 50 Constituent
ISIN
INE397D01024
Industry
Telecommunications
Founded
7 July 1995; 28 years ago (1995-07-07)[1]
Founder
Sunil Mittal
Headquarters
Nelson Mandela Road, Vasant Kunj, New Delhi, India[1]
Area served
Worldwide
Key people
Sunil Mittal (Chairman)
Gopal Vittal (MD & CEO)
Products
Fixed line telephone
Mobile telephony
Broadband
Satellite television
Payments bank
Digital television
Internet television
IPTV
Revenue
₹140,081.40 crore (US$18 billion) (2023)[2]
Operating income
₹17,230.50 crore (US$2.2 billion) (2023)[2]
Net income
₹8,345.90 crore (US$1.0 billion) (2023)[2]
Total assets
₹446,633.20 crore (US$56 billion) (2023)[2]
Total equity
₹77,562.90 crore (US$9.7 billion) (2023)[2]
Owners
Bharti Telecom (39.94%)
Singtel (10.51%)
Indian Continent Investment Limited (4.56%)
Free float (45%)[3]
Members
491.26 million[4] (March-2022)
Number of employees
67,774 (As of Jun 2023 Or Q1FY24)[4]
Subsidiaries
Airtel India
Robi (28.18%)
Airtel Payments Bank
Airtel digital TV
Airtel-Vodafone (50%)
Wynk Music
Dialog Axiata (10.36%)
[5]
Airtel Asia
Airtel Europe
Airtel Africa
Website
airtel.in
Bharti Airtel Limited, commonly known as Airtel, is an Indian multinational telecommunications services company based in New Delhi. It operates in 18 countries across South Asia and Africa, as well as the Channel Islands. Currently, Airtel provides 5G, 4G and LTE Advanced services throughout India. Currently offered services include fixed-line broadband, and voice services depending upon the country of operation. Airtel had also rolled out its Voice over LTE (VoLTE) technology across all Indian telecom circles.[6] It is the second largest mobile network operator in India and the second largest mobile network operator in the world.[4] Airtel was named India's 2nd most valuable brand in the first ever Brandz ranking by Millward Brown and WPP plc.[7]
Airtel is credited with pioneering the strategic management 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, Huawei, and Nokia Networks[9] whereas IT support is provided by Amdocs. The transmission towers are maintained by subsidiaries and joint venture companies of Bharti including Bharti Infratel (merged with Indus Towers) and Indus Towers in India.[10] Ericsson agreed for the first time to be paid by the minute for installation and maintenance of their equipment rather than being paid upfront, which allowed Airtel to provide low call rates of ₹1 (1.3¢ US)/minute.[11]
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^ abc"Quarterly IR Pack Bharti Airtel Consolidated" (PDF). bharti airtel. 31 December 2020. p. 3. Retrieved 3 February 2021.
^"Dialog, Axiata Group and Bharti Airtel sign Definitive Agreement to Merge Operations in Sri Lanka".
^"Airtel Plans to Launch Its 4G VoLTE Services Later This Year, Says CEO". NDTV Gadgets360.com. Retrieved 10 July 2017.
^"HDFC Bank is most valuable brand in India:BrandZ Top 50 Most Valuable Indian Brands study by Millward Brown".
^Joji Thomas Philip (15 October 2012). "Bharti Airtel may merge India & Africa operations by mid 2013 – Economic Times". Economictimes.indiatimes.com. Archived from the original on 8 November 2012. Retrieved 29 October 2012.
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