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Airtel crosses 35 lakh mobile customers in Himachal Pradesh

Telecommunication service provider BhartiAirtel has crossed 35 lakh mobile customers mark in Himachal Pradesh. Disclosing this BhartiAirtel, Upper North, Hub…

Airtel crosses 35 lakh mobile customers in Himachal Pradesh

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Telecommunication service provider BhartiAirtel has crossed 35 lakh mobile customers mark in Himachal Pradesh.

Disclosing this BhartiAirtel, Upper North, Hub Chief Executive Officer Manu Sood on Wednesday said, “This is yet another major milestone for Airtel. We remain committed to providing best-in-class services to our customers and lead the market with exciting innovation. As the market gets ready for the next wave of growth, we are expanding our telecom networks wider and deeper across the region and contribute to the Government’s ‘Digital India’ vision.”

In a recent development, over 54 percent of all RCom customers and over 59 percent of all Aircel customers in HP ported to Airtel, once again underlining Airtel’s position as the most preferred network in the state, he said.

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The company also announced a massive network expansion drive to further scale up its high speed data services across the state – aims to roll out over 6000 mobile sites by H1 of FY 18-19to considerably enhance the network experience for its customers by taking services deeper into rural and unconnected areas.

With special focus on Himachal Pradesh, by first half (H1) of Financial Year 2018-19, Airtel plans to add 2800 more 4G locations and this expansion shall be extensively backed by making 4G services to reach some of the toughest locations of the state. To step up network capacity and taking services deeper into rural and unconnected areas, Airtel plans to roll out 5 new mobile sites per day across the state in H1 of FY 2018-19, as part of its network transformation program ‘Project Leap’, he informed.

With this planned rollout, the number of Airtel’s mobile sites across HP will go up by 19 percent to 6000 by H1 of FY 2018-19 and considerably enhance the network experience for customers, he added.

He said, “Airtel also plans to deploy over 850 km of fresh optic fiber in the region. The addition of fresh fibre capacity will support the growth of high speed data services in the region.”

Airtel was the first operator to launch 4G services in the state, he said, adding that it is the only private operator offering mobile services on all technologies- 2G, 3G and 4G in the remotest locations of the HP.

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