Bharti Airtel plans to build 56 edge data centres in the next 18 to 24 months, with executive vice chairman Gopal Vittal calling for major infrastructure investment to differentiate over the next 2 to 3 decades. He also said India’s tariff architecture is “broken,” where higher-income users pay too little and lower-income users pay too much. Airtel’s strategy is backed by rising capex, fibre expansion, and scaling its non-banking financial services, including a planned Rs 20,000 crore investment.
Vodafone Idea’s CEO said the firm is considering only minor adjustments to mobile tariffs and has no immediate plans for a broad structural price hike. The statement comes after Bharti Airtel raised its prepaid plans, but Vodafone Idea is prioritizing performance improvement and subscriber growth instead. The government also holds a significant stake in the company.
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