Bharti Airtel is set to be the 5th among the top telecom operators in the world, according to Wireless Intelligence. In the tenth spot is Reliance Communications.
Meanwhile, Idea Cellular, Tata Teleservices and BSNL have been ranked among the world's top 25 telecom companies. Idea Cellular is at 21st position, followed by Tata Teleservices at 22nd and BSNL has bagged the 23rd position.
Bharti is now the world's third-largest, single-country mobile operator. In March, Bharti signed a an agreement with Zain Group to acquire Zain Africa BV based on an enterprise valuation of $10.7 billion. Bharti will acquire Zain's African mobile services operations in 15 countries with a total customer base of over 42 million.
Zain is the market leader in ten of these countries and ranks second in four countries. With this acquisition, Bharti Airtel will be the world's fifth largest wireless company with operations across 18 countries.
Bharti group's global telecom footprint will expand to 21 countries along with the operations in Seychelles, Jersey, and Guernsey. Bharti launched mobile services in India in 1995, Sri Lanka in 2009 and acquired Warid in Bangladesh in January 2010.
Reliance Communications, a part of the ADAG group, is one of the largest private sector information and communications company, with over 94 million subscribers.
It has established a pan-India, high-capacity, integrated (wireless and wireline), convergent (voice, data and video) digital network.
The Reliance Anil Dhirubhai Ambani Group currently has a net worth in excess of Rs 64,000 crore ($13.6 billion), cash flows of Rs 13,000 crore ($2.8 billion), net profit of Rs 8,400 crore ($1.8 billion).
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