Bharti Airtel Now 4th Largest Operator in the World

Bharti Airtel, a leading telecommunications service provider with operations in 20 countries across South Asia and Africa moved up one notch in the world wide ranking to be the fourth largest mobile operator in the world in terms of subscribers.

Headquartered in New Delhi, India, Bharti Airtel has Over 250 million mobile subscribers enough to place it among top five operators globally.

China Mobile leads globally with 683.08 million subscribers followed by Vodafone Group 386.88 million while America Movil Group is third with 251.83 million subscribers.

These figures are according to worldwide group global ranking by connections in the second quarter of this year by Wireless Intelligence ‘Scoreboard’

The connections are aggregated as the sum of each group’s subsidiaries where a minimum of 50 per cent plus one share economic interest is held.

So at the end of the quarter ended June 2012, Bharti Airtel had over 250 million mobile subscribers across its operations, representing 13 per cent year on year.

Bharti Airtel had become the fifth largest mobile operator in the world following its acquisition of Zain Group’s mobile operations across 15 African nations in June 2010.

In India, the company's product offerings include 2G, 3G and 4G wireless services, mobile commerce, fixed line services, high speed DSL broadband, IPTV, DTH, enterprise services including national & international long distance services to carriers.

In the rest of the geographies, it offers 2G, 3G wireless services and mobile commerce. Bharti Airtel had over 259 million customers across its operations at the end of September 2012.