[4] Headquartered in Gurugram, Haryana, the company was established by Bharti Airtel in July 2007 by spinning-off its mobile towers to a new wholly-owned subsidiary.

Bharti Infratel was the first Indian company to start a tower infrastructure sharing business.

In September 2020, Divi's Laboratories and SBI Life Insurance Company replaced Bharti Infratel and Zee Entertainment Enterprises on the index.

However, due to delays in approvals, it was postponed to December 2019 by when the Department of Telecommunications (DoT) was supposed to give its permission.

Owing to further delays by the DoT and the National Company Law Tribunal, the deadline was extended multiple times to 24 June 2020.