Profil Financier
Sunil Mittal occupe actuellement le rang #265 du classement mondial StarFortune (secteur télécommunications). Fortune nette estimée : $12.3 B (-$457 sur 24h).
Telecom tycoon Sunil Mittal's Bharti Airtel is among India's largest mobile phone operators. It has more than 600 million customers across South Asia and Africa.
Airtel, which has SingTel as its partner, competes with Mukesh Ambani's Reliance Jio and Kumar Birla's Vodafone Idea.
In 2022, Google announced a $1 billion investment in Bharti Airtel,of which $700 million was for a minority stake in the company.
Mittal's Bharti Global, run by his son Shravin, has stakes in France's Eutelsat, and U.K. telecoms giant BT Group, where Mittal has a board seat.
Bharti was set up in 1976 as a maker of bicycle parts.
Mittal and his two siblings have pledged $1.1 billion to their charitable foundation, mainly to set up a new university to provide free education for the poor.
Mittal has been conferred the Padma Bhushan, one of India's highest civilian awards.