Despite Airtel lagging behind MTN in Nigeria in terms of number of subscribers , the telecommunication giants has made international milestone. A latest report by World Cellular Information Service (WCIS) says Airtel is the third largest mobile operator in the world with over 303 million subscribers.
The report further says that China Mobile is the leading phone operator in the world, with over 626 million wireless mobile connections, followed by Vodafone Group 403 million, and Bharti Airtel with over 303million.
It says the company has achieved growth in its business model, and global scale in less than two decades of operations.“The company pioneered the low-cost business model based on out-sourcing that has allowed it to expand its services rapidly, and give customers affordable access to mobile telephone,” it says.
Commenting on the development, Bharti Airtel chairman Sunil Bharti Mittal said the telecommunication company’s mobile network is expected to cover about 1.85 billion people across its operations in 20 countries, with over 1.23 trillion minutes of calls, and above 333 petabytes of data in 2014/15.
“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,” he said.
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