Airtel weathered storms to emerge as strong institution: Sunil Mittal

Bharti Airtel has overcome existential crises in 2003 (intense competition) and 2020 (Supreme Court’s AGR verdict) as well as the ‘tsunami’ of 2016 (Reliance Jio’s launch) to emerge as an institution that is a national asset, said chairman Sunil Mittal. He told Kiran Rathee and Romit Guha in an interview that India’s digital story rides on the back of telcos, who must be supported. He praised the telecom reforms package of 2021 for bringing in a regulatory regime that was fair and forward looking.