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KOLKATA: Bharti AirtelBSE 1.55 % has become the world's third largest mobile carrier by subscribers, behind China Mobile and UK's Vodafone Group, latest data from research firm Ovum's World Cellular Information Service (WCIS) showed.
Bharti Airtel, with more than 303 million mobile subscribers across 20 countries in South Asia and Africa, has "moved up one position in the global rankings", WCIS said. It now leads China Unicom and Mexican carrier America Movil, which are at fourth and fifth spots, respectively.
The company had a modest start in 1995 as a single-circle operator in New Delhi. Two decades since, it is the No. 1 in India, the world's second largest mobile telecom market, and offers services across the second-, third- and fourth-generation platforms. Its mobile networks carried more than 1.23 trillion minutes of calls and over 333 petabytes of data in the fiscal year ended on March 31, 2015.
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Airtel becomes world’s number 3 carrier by user base - The Economic Times
Bharti Airtel, with more than 303 million mobile subscribers across 20 countries in South Asia and Africa, has "moved up one position in the global rankings", WCIS said. It now leads China Unicom and Mexican carrier America Movil, which are at fourth and fifth spots, respectively.
The company had a modest start in 1995 as a single-circle operator in New Delhi. Two decades since, it is the No. 1 in India, the world's second largest mobile telecom market, and offers services across the second-, third- and fourth-generation platforms. Its mobile networks carried more than 1.23 trillion minutes of calls and over 333 petabytes of data in the fiscal year ended on March 31, 2015.
Read more at:
Airtel becomes world’s number 3 carrier by user base - The Economic Times
