Airtel Gears Up for Massive Expansion of its Future-Ready Network in Madhya Pradesh & Chhattisgarh

Bharti Airtel (“Airtel”), the telecommunications service provider, has announced its massive network roll-out plans for FY 2018-19 to further expand its data capabilities and enhance its footprint across the states of Madhya Pradesh & Chhattisgarh.

As a part of its network expansion program – Project LEAP, Airtel announced its plans to add more than 9500 new mobile broadband sites in FY 2018-19, along with an addition of 4000 KMs of optic fiber, in Madhya Pradesh & Chhattisgarh Circle. While stepping up the data capacities and taking services deeper into rural and unconnected areas, the massive roll-out would mean the addition of one new site every hour to Airtel’s future-ready network in Madhya Pradesh & Chhattisgarh.

With this planned roll-out, number of Airtel’s mobile sites in Madhya Pradesh & Chhattisgarh would go up by 30% to 26,000, further enhancing the speeds and voice qualities. The addition of fresh optic fiber would extend its fiber backbone to 22,000 KMs in the region, supporting the growth of high-speed data services in the region.

Dharmender Khajuria, Chief Executive Officer – Madhya Pradesh & Chhattisgarh, Bharti Airtel Ltd, adds, “Keeping in mind the fast-evolving usage habits of the new-age mobile internet user and the ever-increasing smartphone penetration, we have committed ourselves towards the availability of best-in-class mobile broadband experience to our users in the progressive states of Madhya Pradesh & Chhattisgarh. We will continue to invest aggressively in the region and take our network capabilities to the next level with more than 26,000 mobile sites by the end of this financial year, ably backed by a scaled up and strengthened infrastructure. As the leading mobile service provider in the country, we are glad that we are able to contribute significantly towards the Government’s vision of Digital India with our enhanced speeds, reach and coverage.”

The expansion plan for FY 2018-19 follows a fruitful FY 2017-18 which saw more than 5200 new sites being deployed in the Madhya Pradesh & Chhattisgarh, extending its mobile broadband footprint to 34000 towns and villages of Madhya Pradesh & Chhattisgarh.

Network highlights of Airtel Madhya Pradesh & Chhattisgarh:

-          Platinum 3G services launched in Sep 2015

-          High speed 4G services launched in Oct 2016

-          VoLTE services launched in Oct 2017

-          Fiber backbone – 18500 KMs

-          Towns and villages covered by Airtel 3G and 4G – 34000

-          4G offered on FD LTE 1800 MHz and TD LTE 2300 MHz spectrum