New Delhi: Bharti Airtel on Monday said it is likely to become the world’s third largest telecom operator soon, after China Mobile and UK-based Vodafone, as it continues with a strong subscriber growth.
“We are very close. It is a matter of one or two million (subscribers). Maybe, by next few weeks or months, we should be there,” Bharti Enterprises managing director Manoj Kohli said on the sidelines of an IMI event.
At the end of April, Airtel had over 297 million customers across 20 countries. The latest global ranking and subscriber numbers were not immediately available. According to analyst firm Wireless Intelligence, the telecom major became fourth largest operator in the world with over 250 million subscribers in Q2 of 2012.
Bharti Airtel had become the 5th largest mobile operator in the world following its acquisition of Zain Group’s mobile operations across 15 African nations in June 2010. — PTI
