Sunil Mittal & family

About Sunil Mittal & family

Telecom tycoon Sunil Mittal's Bharti Airtel is among India's largest mobile phone operators with more than 490 million customers.

Airtel, which has SingTel as its partner, competes with Mukesh Ambani's Reliance Jio and Kumar Birla's Vodafone Idea.

Mittal also owns Airtel Payments Bank, a niche bank, in a joint venture with Kotak Mahindra Bank, controlled by fellow billionaire Uday Kotak.

In 2022, Google announced a $1 billion investment in Bharti Airtel,of which $700 million would be for a minority stake in the company.

Mittal's Bharti Global, run by son Shravin, has invested in U.K. satellite provider OneWeb. In 2022, Mittal agreed to merge it with Eutelsat in a deal that values OneWeb at $3.4 billion.