If Bharti Airtel and MTN marry

The union will throw up some mind-boggling numbers:

$60 billion The approximate market value expected to be created by the merged entity

$20 billion Estimated revenues of combined entity

200 million Combined subscriber base

400 million India’s mobile subscribers

360 million Africa’s mobile subscribers

#4 Global ranking of merged entity based on subscriber base

22 number of countries in Asia, Africa and West Asia that the merged entity will have subscribers in