Airtel Fully Ready With 5G SA FWA, Can Launch When Required: CEO

Airtel Fully Ready With 5G SA FWA, Ready To Launch When Required: CEO
Bharti Airtel is fully prepared with its 5G Standalone (SA) Fixed Wireless Access (FWA) solution and can activate the network whenever the company deems it necessary. Additionally, over the last two quarters, Airtel‘s FWA availability has expanded across key locations, and the service is now live in over 2,000 cities. The company is also looking to double its broadband user base from over 45 million to anywhere between 80–90 million homes in the medium term. Airtel also added 1.9 million home passes via the FTTH (fiber-to-the-home) wired broadband route in the December quarter.

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Doubling Broadband User Base

“During the quarter, we accelerated our FWA expansion, which led to strong uptick in customer additions of 674K customers to reach to a total base of 9.2 million,” the company stated in its Q3 FY25 performance report published on February 6, 2025.

“Broadband penetration in the country remains low, but is growing rapidly driven by fast paced adoption of home connectivity and changing content consumption preference of customers,” Gopal Vittal of Bharti Airtel told analysts during the company’s earnings call last Friday. “We believe the current market can double from over 45 million to any where between 80 to 90 million homes over the medium term. While we have stepped up our performance, we believe there is significant room to increase our competitiveness.”

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