NEW DELHI: After the bitter acrimony and regulatory and legal fights, it was time to talk collaboration and joint efforts by Reliance’s Mukesh Ambani, Airtel’s Sunil Mittal and Vodafone Idea’s Kumar Mangalam Birla at a top event of the telecom industry.
Ambani, whose company has cruised past older companies Airtel and Vodafone Idea to become the country’s biggest operator, suggested that all players should work together and collaborate in areas like telecom fibre as the country migrates to newer technologies such as 5G, as well as immersive experiences in enterprise and consumer.
“If all the players in the industry work together, we can rapidly achieve a nationwide footprint of fibre, just as we reached mobile telephony to every corner of the country in the last decade,” Ambani said in the inaugural address of the 2021 India Mobile Congress.
Mittal too spoke about “duplication in the industry”, be it in the area of mobile towers or fibre. “We need to start to talk to each other, do co-builds like the world is doing, share more tower infrastructure and ensure that while we fiercely compete, we also collaborate and lower cost structures for serving most affordable tariffs anywhere in the world,” he said, seeking more cooperation in the field of 5G.
Birla echoed similar sentiments. “As we accelerate this digital shift, we need to collectively address the need for continued investments to enable the journey to 5G, Industry 4.0 and beyond. A robust industry is necessary to invest and accelerate achievement of the Digital India vision.”
Ambani, whose company has cruised past older companies Airtel and Vodafone Idea to become the country’s biggest operator, suggested that all players should work together and collaborate in areas like telecom fibre as the country migrates to newer technologies such as 5G, as well as immersive experiences in enterprise and consumer.
“If all the players in the industry work together, we can rapidly achieve a nationwide footprint of fibre, just as we reached mobile telephony to every corner of the country in the last decade,” Ambani said in the inaugural address of the 2021 India Mobile Congress.
Mittal too spoke about “duplication in the industry”, be it in the area of mobile towers or fibre. “We need to start to talk to each other, do co-builds like the world is doing, share more tower infrastructure and ensure that while we fiercely compete, we also collaborate and lower cost structures for serving most affordable tariffs anywhere in the world,” he said, seeking more cooperation in the field of 5G.
Birla echoed similar sentiments. “As we accelerate this digital shift, we need to collectively address the need for continued investments to enable the journey to 5G, Industry 4.0 and beyond. A robust industry is necessary to invest and accelerate achievement of the Digital India vision.”
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