Sunil Mittal
Delhi, India
Bachelor of Arts/Science, Punjab University
India
telecom, Self Made
$7,500,000,000
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#244 Billionaires 2019
#17 India's Richest 2018
Telecom tycoon Sunil Mittal's Bharti Airtel is India's second- largest mobile phone operator with more than 400 million customers.Airtel, which has SingTel as its partner, is embroiled in a bruising price war with Mukesh Ambani's Reliance Jio.Mittal also owns Airtel Payments Bank, a niche bank, in a joint venture with Kotak Mahindra Bank, controlled by fellow billionaire Uday Kotak. Mittal's son Kavin runs SoftBank-backed messaging service Hike valued at $1.5 billion.
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.
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