Airtel India
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| Industry | Telecommunications |
| Founded | 7 July 1995 |
| Founder | Sunil Bharti Mittal |
| Headquarters | Bharti Crescent, 1, Nelson Mandela Road, New Delhi, India |
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Area served
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India |
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Key people
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Sunil Bharti Mittal (Chairman and MD) |
| Products | Fixed line and mobile telephony, broadband and fixed-line internet services, digital television and |
| Members | 256.80 million (as of July 2016) |
| Parent | Bharti Airtel |
| Website | www |
Airtel India is the largest provider of mobile telephony and second largest provider of fixed telephony in India, and is also a provider of broadband and subscription television services. The brand is operated by several subsidiaries of Bharti Airtel, with Bharti Hexacom and Bharti Telemedia providing broadband fixed line services and Bharti Infratel providing telecom passive infrastructure service such as telecom equipment and telecom towers. Bharti Airtel Limited is part of Bharti Enterprises and is headed by Sunil Bharti Mittal.
Airtel is the first Indian telecom service provider to achieve Cisco Gold Certification. It also acts as a carrier for national and international long distance communication services. The company has a submarine cable landing station at Chennai, with a connection to Singapore. As of September 2016, Airtel has 255.73 million subscribers with a market share of 24.7% in the Indian telephony market. Airtel was named India's second most valuable brand in the first ever Brandz ranking by Millward Brown and WPP plc.
Airtel operates in all telecom circles of India. Airtel is the largest operator in rural India, with 256.80 million subscribers as of July 2016.
On 18 May 2010, the 3G spectrum auction was completed and Airtel paid the Government of India ₹122.95 billion (US$1.8 billion) for spectrum in 13 circles, the most amount spent by an operator in that auction. Airtel won 3G licences in 13 telecom circles of India: Delhi, Mumbai, Andhra Pradesh, Karnataka, Tamil Nadu, Uttar Pradesh (West), Rajasthan, West Bengal, Himachal Pradesh, Bihar, Assam, North East, and Jammu & Kashmir. Airtel also operates 3G services in Maharashtra & Goa and Kolkata circles through an agreement with Vodafone and in Gujarat and Punjab through an agreement with Idea. This gives Airtel a 3G presence in all 22 out of 22 circles in India. Airtel is fined by DoT 3.50 billion for not stopping offering 3G Services through Roaming Pacts outside its Licensed Zones in Seven Circles.
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