Airtel deploys 180,000 mobile sites in last two years

In one of the largest network rollouts globally, Bharti Airtel has deployed 180,000 mobile sites in the last two years, which is same as total sites deployed in the first 20 years of operations.

The deployment is part of Project Leap is in line with its objective of building a future ready network to lead India’s data growth story. Airtel has announced an investment commitment of Rs 60,000 crores for Project Leap.

In November 2015, Airtel launched Project Leap, its nationwide network transformation program to build a future ready network. The company has committed an investment of Rs 60,000 crores over three years under this program.

Airtel has also doubled its overall transmission capacity and increased the mobile backhaul capacity by eight 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+ KMm of fibre to Airtel’s national fibre backbone along with 3,666 new fibre PoP nodes (highest ever deployed in Airtel network in single year).

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.”