India's Top Family Run Businesses
By siliconindia   |   Wednesday, 09 November 2011, 00:27 IST
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3.Bharati Airtel Bharti Airtel popularly known as Airtel was founded by Sunil Bharti Mittal in 1995. It is an Indian telecommunications company that operates in 20 countries across South Asia, Africa and the Channel Islands. It operates a GSM network in many countries, providing 2G or 3G services depending upon the country of operation. Airtel is the fifth largest telecom operator in the world with about 230.8 million subscribers across 19 countries at the end of June 2011. The company is the largest cellular service provider in India, with over 171.85 million subscribers as of August 2011. Airtel is the 3rd largest in-country mobile operator by subscriber base, behind China Mobile and China Unicom. The company has its headquarters in New Delhi. Its main products are fixed-line and mobile telephony, broadband and fixed-line internet services, digital television, IPTV and network services. The company recently announced that Shravin Bharti Mittal, 23, one of twin sons of Sunil Bharti Mittal, is the manager of Bharti's international operations in Africa. Sunil and his brothers own 32 per cent of the company and are therefore worth something like Rs 20,000 crore.

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