Bharti Airtel’s subscriber base has crossed the 10-crore (100 million) mark, making it the sixth largest telecom service provider in the world. However, considering single country mobile service operator, the company has become the third largest player after China Mobile and China Unicom. Mobile phone customers account for a major portion of Bharti’s subscribers base. “This is a great achievement for the company. A couple of years ago, crossing even the 25 million subscriber base was a dream. At that time few companies like Telefonica, Orange, Deutsche Telecome had that many subscriber base,’’ said Sunil Bharti Mittal, chairman and group CEO of Bharti Enterprise. The company reached the first 2.5 crore (25 million) customers mark in July 2006 after around 12 years of operations. As it grew, the growth rate accelerated. The next 2.5 crore customers were added by October 2007 to double the base to 5 crore. For another 2.5 crore subscribers, the company took only 10 months. So, By August 2008, its user base was 7.5 crore. In nine months after that it added another 2.5 crore customers to cross the 10 crore mark. At present, it is adding on an average around 30 lakh customers every month.
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