{{Kigali, Rwanda. June 30, 2015}}: {Bharti Airtel has today announced its position as the third largest mobile operator in the world in terms of subscribers. According to the latest data published by World Cellular Information Service (WCIS), Airtel has moved one position up in the global rankings. }
Commenting on the milestone, Chairman of Bharti Airtel, Mr. Sunil Bharti Mittal, 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 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 Rwanda, Airtel has grown to more than 1m active subscribers in only three years and over 70% of its customers registered on Airtel Money. The telecom has also positioned itself as the leading internet provider of 3.75G & 4G internet in the country.
Airtel Rwanda Managing Director, Mr. Teddy Bhullar reaffirmed Airtel’s commitment in Rwanda saying the telco would continue to give customers value for money in voice, data and mobile commerce services while involving itself in the grassroots to further support its customers.
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.
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