Bharti started its telecom business by launching mobile services with the brand name “Airtel” in Delhi (India) in 1995. Since then, there has been no looking back. Bharti Airtel, the group's flagship company, has since emerged as one of the leading global communications solutions providers with over 550 million customers in 15 countries across India and Africa. The company also has a presence in Bangladesh and Sri Lanka through its associate entities. Over the past few years, Bharti has diversified into emerging business areas in the fast-expanding Indian economy. The group offers financial services across India and also serves customers through its processed foods business. The group has growing interests in other areas such as data centres, real estate, space communications, manufacturing and distribution of telecom/IT products.

What sets Bharti apart is its ability to forge strong partnerships and over the years, some of the biggest global names have partnered with Bharti. Currently, Singtel, Google, Oracle, Ericsson, Nokia Siemens, and Cisco are some of our key partners in the telecom business and Del Monte for the processed foods business. The successful merger of OneWeb and Eutelsat created the Eutelsat Group, the world’s first GEO-LEO satellite operator with Bharti as its largest shareholder. The company with its LEO constellation of more than 600 satellites in orbit is delivering broadband around the world.

Bharti has a strong conviction to give back to society. Through its philanthropic arm, Bharti Airtel Foundation is empowering underprivileged children in rural India by providing quality education and creating opportunities for their holistic growth, with a special focus on the girl child. The Foundation is engaged in building learning excellence at primary, elementary, secondary, senior secondary and tertiary levels. It has built lasting impressions in the lives of nearly 3 million children since inception along with over 1.9 lakh teachers and over 3 million community members. The Foundation’s three key programs at the school level are Satya Bharti Schools, Quality Support Program (QSP) and QSP at Scale, and higher education initiatives. In response to the government’s Swachh Bharat Abhiyan, the Foundation initiated Satya Bharti Abhiyan from 2014 to 2021, which impacted over 2 lakh beneficiaries by improving sanitation conditions across Punjab’s districts.