Bharti Airtel today said that it has become the third largest mobile operator in the world in terms of subscribers. As per the latest data published by WCIS, Airtel with over 303 million mobile subscribers across its operations, has moved up one position in the global rankings.
Airtel began operations in
November 1995 in New Delhi (India) and in less than two decades it has emerged
as one of the top brands in the emerging markets with an unmatched scale and
diversity of operations. The Company pioneered the low-cost business model
based on outsourcing that has allowed it to expand its services rapidly and
give customers affordable access to mobile telephony.
Top Five Global Mobile
Operators by Customers
Ranking
|
Operator
|
Wireless Mobile Connections
(millions)*
|
1
|
China Mobile
|
626.27
|
2
|
Vodafone Group
|
403.08
|
3
|
Bharti Airtel
|
303.10
|
4
|
China Unicom
|
299.09
|
5
|
America Movil
|
274.14
|
(Source: World
Cellular Information Service (WCIS) – As per their latest published global
rankings)
Sunil Bharti
Mittal, Chairman, Bharti Airtel, said, “This is a major landmark in the journey of Airtel and
underlines the strength of our business model and our brand that is loved by
customers across 20 countries. Today, we seamlessly manage global scale
operations in diverse geographies and deliver the same world-class services to
each customers, this perhaps is one of our biggest achievements. I want to
thank our employees and our business partners for supporting us through this
exciting journey and with the mobile internet play about to happen in the
developing world, things will only get brighter from here on.”
Airtel’s mobile
networks cover over 1.85 billion^ people across its operations in 20 countries
and carried over 1.23 trillion minutes of calls and over 333 petabytes of data
in FY 2014-15.
In India, Airtel has one of the
largest bouquet of mobile services offerings for customers - including 2G, 3G,
4G, Mobile Commerce and other Value Added Services. Its distribution channel is
spread across 1.5 Mn outlets, with network presence in 5,121 census and 464,045
non-census towns and villages in India covering approximately 86.8% of the
country’s population. Airtel has the largest rural mobile customer base in
India with over 100 million mobile customers (from rural markets).
Airtel has India’s
widest 3G footprint, offering customers high-speed internet access and a host
of innovative services like Mobile TV, video calls, live-streaming videos and
gaming. Airtel is the only mobile operator in India to offer 4G services in
over 30 cities using TD - LTE & FDD - LTE technology, providing customers
the fastest wireless services with buffer-less HD video streaming and
multi-tasking capabilities. Going forward, Airtel plans to launch ultrafast 4G
services in India’s first FDD‐LTE
on 1800 MHz in 6 circles.
In Africa, Bharti
Airtel is the largest mobile operator in the Continent in terms of geographical
footprint. It offers 2G, 3G
services and Airtel Money across all 17 countries in Africa. Airtel Money is
one of the largest and fastest growing m-commerce services on the continent and
with data adoption leading the growth on the continent, Airtel is well
positioned to leverage the opportunities.
In Bangladesh, Bharti Airtel is
the fastest growing mobile operator, with a distribution network comprising
over 146K retailers across the country. The company offers a wide range of 2G
and 3G services in Bangladesh, including voice, value added services,
entertainment, m-commerce and m-health.
In Sri
Lanka, Bharti Airtel offers a range of mobile services which includes voice,
data and enterprise solutions on its state-of-the-art 2G and 3G HSPA+ network.
Airtel’s 3G presence across over 70% of its network is amongst the highest 3G
ratio available across the subcontinent.
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