Airtel today announced that it has deployed 180,000 mobile sites across India, which is double the amount of its mobile network deployment over the past two years. It said that the deployment in the last two years is same as total sites deployed in the first 20 years of operations.
Airtel said that it has also doubled its overall transmission capacity and increased the mobile backhaul capacity by 8 times to roll out high speed broadband network with 4G and 3G coverage in all 22 telecom circles. This deployment has been supported by addition of 14,500+ KM of fibre to Airtel’s national fibre backbone along with 3666 new fibre POP nodes.
Airtel launched Project Leap, its nationwide network transformation program to build a future ready network back in November 2015 and has agreed to invest Rs. 60,000 crores over three years under this program.
Commenting on the new achievement, Abhay Savargaonkar, Director- Networks, Bharti Airtel said:
Airtel has been at the forefront of India’s telecom growth story and this record deployment underlines our commitment to building a world-class network of the future that will serve a digital India. This deployment will leverage our spectrum capacity and is yet another benchmark by Airtel in execution excellence. We are now in a position to ramp up future capacity on this network very quickly, giving us unmatched reach and agility. I want to thank our network partners for their support in this deployment.