Airtel to add 160,000 new base stations by 2020

Airtel to add 160,000 new base stations by 2020

NEW DELHI: Bharti Airtel, India's top telecom service provider said that it will 160,000 new base stations by the year 2020 to support rapid data growth in the country. The telco said that it doubled mobile network over last two years by adding 180,000 new sites, and its network now covers 95% of India's population.

In its 2017 India Sustainability Report, the Sunil Mittal-led telco said that it saved 1.3 million liters of diesel saved in network infrastructure. It achieved 81% reduction per tera-byte in CO2 emissions across network infrastructure in the last five years and 27% reduction in the last financial year.
The telecom operator now aims to reduce carbon footprint by 70%. It reduced 23% in CO2 emissions per square feet in its facility and 9% reduction in CO2 emissions per rack in data centre operations against 2015-16.

The telco, which adopted Aadhar based instant verification process, has saved over 1280 million sheets of paper since FY 2011-12 on paperless billing initiatives.

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The telco added that it managed to recycle 2400 tonnes of e-waste and refurbished over 500,000 direct-to-home set top boxes.

"Over 1200 tonnes of paper have been saved since FY 2011-12 with the paperless billing initiative, over 170 millions have opted for e-bills. 191 tonnes of paper was saved across facilities," Airtel said. It said that 32.7 million such paperless Aadhar based acquisitions were completed last year.