[7][8] Airtel was named India's second most valuable brand in the first ever Brandz ranking by Millward Brown and WPP plc in 2014.

[11] Airtel also operates 3G services in Maharashtra & Goa, Kolkata, Gujarat and Punjab circles through an agreement with Vodafone.

Airtel is fined by DoT 3.50 billion for not stopping offering 3G Services through Roaming Pacts outside its Licensed Zones in Seven Circles.

On 20 September 2010, Bharti Airtel said that it had given contracts to Ericsson India, Nokia Siemens Networks (NSN) to set up infrastructure for providing 3G services in the country.

These vendors would plan, design, deploy and maintain 3G–HSPA (third-generation, high-speed packet access) networks in 13 telecom circles where the company had won 3G licences.

[15] In October 2017, Bharti Airtel announced its acquisition of Tata Docomo having roughly 40 million subscribers.

Airtel paid ₹33.1436 billion (US$380 million) for spectrum in 4 circles: Maharashtra and Goa, Karnataka, Punjab and Kolkata.

[29] On 3 November 2016, The Economic Times reported that Airtel had awarded a ₹4.02 billion (US$60 million) contract to Nokia to implement Voice over LTE (VoLTE) technology on the operator's network nationwide.

Airtel had previously awarded a smaller contract to Nokia for trial of VoLTE technology in select circles in early 2016.

[37] On 30 November 2015, Airtel announced the launch of a network transformation programme called Project Leap.

[38] Airtel will deploy over 160,000 base stations nationwide, and also expand its mobile broadband coverage to over 500,000 villages.

Under Project Leap, Airtel will introduce several technologies such as small cells, carrier aggregation solutions, Wi-Fi hotspots, and several different spectrum bands to improve network coverage in indoor areas.

The company will also deploy more than 5,50,000 km of domestic and international fibre, and upgrade its legacy networks and base stations over the three-year period.

[42] May 2020 - Announced 'Work@Home' solutions for corporate employees, which bundled collaboration tools including Google Meet, Cisco Webex and Zoom (software).

[43] Announced "High speed Airtel 4G Corporate Mi-Fi devices with complimentary G Suite pack".

[44] A cloud communications suite, which Airtel has announced in Oct 2020, that it will operate as a separate business division.

On 31 August 2016, the company shut down the service, and offered its 50,000 subscribers a free upgrade to Airtel Digital TV.

The issue triggered debate on net neutrality in India[54] and following protests Flipkart pulled out of Airtel Zero.