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Pan-Indian 5G roll-out soon, will cover all towns by March 2024: Airtel CEO

Bharti Airtel acquired 19,867 MHz, worth Rs 43,084 crore, in the recently concluded spectrum auction

Gopal Vittal, MD and CEO of Bharti Airtel
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Gopal Vittal, Managing Director and Chief Executive Officer of Bharti Airtel

Aneesh Phadnis Mumbai
Bharti Airtel’s roll-out of 5G on a pan-Indian basis will cover every town and key rural areas by March 2024, the company’s chief executive officer and managing director, Gopal Vittal, said in a post-results conference call on Tuesday.

“We intend to launch 5G starting August and extending to a pan-Indian roll-out very soon. Detailed network roll-out plans for 5,000 towns in India are in place,” Vittal stated in a post result conference call on Tuesday.

He, however, did not give the launch date and said the company was yet to decide on pricing its 5G plans.

Airtel, which saw nearly