6 Indian Brands Among World's Best 500

Airtel

Airtel, with a brand value of $5.22 billion, was ranked #186 this year. It ranked 284 in 2011, with a brand value of $3.68 billion.

Bharti Airtel, usually known as Airtel, is an Indian telecommunications company that operates in 20 countries across South Asia, Africa and the Channel Islands. Airtel is the 3rd largest telecom operator in the world, with over 243.336 million customers across 20 countries as of March 2012. It is the largest cellular service provider in India, with over 176.95 million subscribers at the end of January 2012. Airtel is the third largest in-country mobile operator by subscriber base, behind China Mobile and China Unicom. It 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. It offers its telecom services under the Airtel brand and is headed by Sunil Bharti Mittal.