Sunil Mittal receives GSMA Lifetime Award

The global telecom industry body GSMA has conferred a rare Lifetime Achievement Award on Bharti Enterprises Founder and Chairman Sunil Bharti Mittal for his contribution in reshaping the global telecommunications landscape and expanding connectivity across operators, governments, businesses, and billions of consumers worldwide, Bharti Airtel said on Monday.

The award has been bestowed on only a handful of industry leaders in GSMA's history and Mittal is first Indian to have been conferred the award. "The GSMA has conferred a rare Lifetime Achievement Award on Sunil Bharti Mittal, Founder and Chairman of Bharti Enterprises, recognising his role in reshaping the global telecommunications landscape and expanding connectivity across operators, governments, businesses, and billions of consumers worldwide," the statement said.

The award was presented at Mobile World Congress in Barcelona in the presence of King of Spain Felipe VI, Spain's Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez, the President of Catalonia, Salvador Illa and industry leaders.