AIRTEL

Airtel

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Bharti Airtel Limited, commonly known as Airtel, is an Indian multinational telecommunications services company based in New Delhi. It operates in 18 countries across South Asia and Africa, as well as the Channel Islands. Currently, Airtel provides 5G, 4G and LTE Advanced services throughout India.

Founder

This company is the brainchild of Sunil Mittal, who has worked hard for his company from when he assembled landline phones to his puschase of a cellular network in India when it was just a fldgeling concept, to making it a household name within a span of a mere 20 years. A first-generation entrepreneur, Sunil started his first business in April 1976[9] at the age of 18, with a capital investment of ₹20,000 (US$240) borrowed from his father. His first business was to make crankshafts for local bicycle manufacturers.[10]

In 1980, he along with his brothers Rakesh Mittal and Rajan Mittal started an Import Enterprise named Bharti Overseas Trading Company.[7] He sold his bicycle parts and yarn factories and moved to Mumbai.[10] In 1981, he purchased importing licenses from exporting companies in Punjab.[9] He then imported thousands of Suzuki Motors's portable electric-power generators from Japan. The importing of generators was suddenly banned by the then Indian Government.