AIRTEL BECOMES WORLD'S SECOND LARGEST TELECOM OPERATOR

With operations spread across India and Africa,

has crossed 650 million customers to become the 2nd largest telecom operator in the world. The company serves over 368 million mobile customers in India and over 179 million customers across 14 countries in Africa. Apart from telecom, it has recently announced foray into the NBFC space. Having a market cap of more than 10-lac crore, it is the 3rd largest listed company in India in terms of capitalization. The company's stock price has delivered more than 250% returns in the past 5 years. Moreover, FIIs have increased stake from 24.27% as of Dec24 to 28.75% as of Dec25 thereby showing a strong confidence in the company's growth prospects.