
Telecom major Bharti Airtel on Thursday said it is well poised to cover every town and key rural area with Airtel 5G services by September 2023. In a statement filed with the stock exchanges, Bharti Airtel said that it has surpassed the 2 million unique 5G user mark on its network in Tamil Nadu.
The company said that Airtel’s 5G service is now available in over 500 cities and towns across Tamil Nadu.
“Airtel 5G Plus is now available in over 3500 towns and villages across the country and has surpassed the 10 million unique customer mark on its 5G network nationally. Airtel is well poised to cover every town and key rural area with Airtel 5G services by September 2023,” the telecommunication services company said in the statement.
Bharti Airtel CEO Tarun Virmani said, “We will continue to advance our network, bridging every town and key rural area across the state, allowing many more customers to enjoy superfast access to high definition video streaming, gaming, multiple chatting, instant uploading of photos and more.”
The company also said that it has launched unlimited 5G data for its customers. Bharti Airtel said, “Customers will now be able to experience ultrafast reliable and secure 5G Plus services without having to worry about data exhaustion as Airtel removes the capping on data usage across all existing plans.”
This comes after Bharti Airtel on Tuesday announced that its net profit in the January-March quarter jumped by around 50 per cent to Rs 3,006 crore.
At the time of writing, the stock of Bharti Airtel was trading 1.25 per cent higher at Rs 802.15 on BSE.