page_title: Bharti Airtel
section_title: International presence
hierarchical_section_title: Bharti Airtel / International presence
caption_attribution_description: English: Map shows the coverage of Bharti Airtel (an Indian telecom operator) across various countries of the world.
context_page_description: Bharti Airtel Limited, also known as Airtel, is an Indian global telecommunications services company based in New Delhi, Delhi NCT, India. It operates in 18 countries across South Asia and Africa, and also in the Channel Islands. Airtel provides GSM, 3G, 4G LTE, 4G+ mobile services, fixed line broadband and voice services depending upon the country of operation. Airtel had also rolled out its VoLTE technology across all Indian telecom circles. It is the second largest mobile network operator in India and the second largest mobile network operator in the world with over 423.28 million subscribers. Airtel was named India's 2nd most valuable brand in the first ever Brandz ranking by Millward Brown and WPP plc.
  Airtel is credited with pioneering the business strategy of outsourcing all of its business operations except marketing, sales and finance and building the 'minutes factory' model of low cost and high volumes. The strategy has since been adopted by several operators. Airtel's equipment is provided and maintained by Ericsson, Huawei, and Nokia Networks whereas IT support is provided by Amdocs.
context_section_description: Airtel is the one of the largest mobile operators in the world in terms of subscriber base and has a commercial presence in 18 countries and the Channel Islands.
  Its area of operations include:
  The Indian Subcontinent:
  Airtel India, in India
  Airtel Sri Lanka, in Sri Lanka
  Robi, in Bangaldesh
  Airtel Africa, which operates in 15 African countries:
  Chad, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Congo, Gabon, Ghana, Kenya, Madagascar, Malawi, Niger, Nigeria, Rwanda, Seychelles, Tanzania, Uganda and Zambia.
  The British Crown Dependency islands of Jersey and Guernsey, under the brand name Airtel-Vodafone, through an agreement with Vodafone.
  Airtel operates in the following countries:
  †Jersey and Guernsey are British Crown Dependencies. They are not independent countries. Therefore, Airtel's countries of operation is considered to be 19.
caption: Coverage map of Bharti Airtel across 19 countries
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