Sunil Mittal

About Sunil Mittal

Telecom tycoon Sunil Mittal's Bharti Airtel is among India's largest mobile phone operators. It has more than 500 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 son Shravin, invested in U.K. satellite provider OneWeb. In 2022, Mittal agreed to merge it with Eutelsat in a deal that valued OneWeb at $3.4 billion.

In March 2024, Indian-American billionaire investor Rajiv Jain's GQG Partners bought a $713 million stake in Bharti Airtel from SingTel.