Telecom major Bharti Airtel today said it has crossed a subscriber base of 10 million in Punjab and is undertaking a massive network augmentation drive in the state.
The Sunil Bharti-led firm has plans to add 24,500 mobile sites by September 2018, which will help it take high speed data services to rural areas and strengthen its coverage across cities.
Airtel has already doubled its 4G network capacity in 1800 Mhz band and will also deploy 1,000 kms of additional optic fibre to serve the massive surge in high speed data consumption over smartphones, the comapny said in a release.
Manu Sood, Hub CEO Upper North, Bharti Airtel, said, "We would like to thank all our 10 million plus customers in the state for giving us the opportunity to serve them."
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