Bharti Airtel, fourth largest mobile operator in the world
View(s):New Delhi – 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, the company said. The top five operators are China Mobile, Vodafone Group, America Movil Group, Bharti Airtel and the Telefonica.
At the end of the quarter ended June 2012, the company – which has a subsidiary in Sri Lanka – had over 250 million mobile subscribers across its operations, up 13 per cent from the previous year.
Airtel became the fifth largest mobile operator in the world following its acquisition of Zain Group’s mobile operations across 15 African nations in June 2010.
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