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India : BHARTI AIRTEL reaches 300 mln milestones [TendersInfo (India)](TendersInfo (India) Via Acquire Media NewsEdge) India s largest cellular operator Bharti Airtel announced that it has reached 300 million customers mark across its mobile, fixed line, DSL and DTH services. Airtel stated"The latest 100 million customers have joined the Airtel family in less than two years. The company ranks as the fourth largest mobile service provider globally and second largest globally outside of China." Bharti Airtel started operations in 1995 and has operations in 20 countries across Asia and Africa. The company crossed the 100 million customers mark in 2009 and crossed the 200 million mark in 2012. Bharti Airtel Managing Director and CEO (India and South Asia) Gopal Vittal commented "This milestone underlines strength of our operations, which is one of the largest on a global scale. Today, telecom is at the cusp of transformation, which, going forward will be driven as much by the force of technology as by the changing demographics in emerging markets across Asia and Africa." Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (Trai) informed that Bharti Airtel had 22.88% share of the Indian wireless subscriber market at the end of May 2014, with about 208 million mobile phone subscribers and 3.3 million wireline users in India. (c) 2014 Euclid Infotech Pvt. Ltd. Provided by SyndiGate Media Inc. (Syndigate.info). [ Back To TMCnet.com's Homepage ] |