Sunil Mittal invites rival Vodafone Idea to join with Airtel in fibre company

Both companies will gain 25 per cent capacity on routes not with them and future fibre builds will be common

Bharti Airtel which is keen to make rival Vodafone Idea a partner in the independent optical fibre company it is setting up and has invited the latter to be a partner in the new firm. If Vodafone Idea decides to join, this would be the single largest independent fibre company in the country.

“We always talk to each other, and our company is being formed as we had filed for a demerger of the fibre unit. We will have a fibre company in place by end of March, and in that we have invited Vodafone to come and join,” Bharti Airtel Chairman Sunil Mittal told a select group of Indian journalists here.