Bharti Airtel Ltd.

Bharti Airtel will deploy more than 17,313 new mobile sites along with 6,650 km of fresh optic fibre across Uttar Pradesh (UP) and Uttarakhand this fiscal under an expansion project.

The deployment will create significant high speed data and voice capacity within the network to serve the explosive surge in mobile usage, driven by affordable smartphones and tariffs. Customers will be able to enjoy superior network coverage indoor and outdoor. With a deployed base of 43,219 sites at the end of 2017-18, this planned rollout would grow Airtels network in UP and Uttarakhand by 40 percent to 60,532 further enhancing the speeds and voice qualities.

Bharti Airtel is a leading integrated telecommunications company with operations across Asia and Africa.