Bharti Airtel has announced its decision to shut down its entire 3G network across the country by March 2020. The process to shut down the services in Kolkata has already begun in the recently concluded June quarter.
By September, the 3G services will be switched off in six to seven more circles and from December to March the entire 3G network would be shut down, noted the CEO of Bharti Airtel (India and South Asia) Gopal Vittal during the company’s post-earnings call.
“Yes, we do see an upgrade when someone moves from 2G to 4G…On spectrum, probably by April 2020, we will really have only 2G and 4G. So all our spectrum will sit on 4G other than the administered spectrum which is on 2G, plus a small slug of spectrum that we require to run our 2G networks…everything else will be sitting on 4G band,” said Vittal.
On Thursday, Bharti Airtel posted a staggering loss of Rs 2,866 crores for the June quarter. This was considered to be its first consolidated loss in 14 years. In the June quarter of the previous fiscal, Airtel received a net profit of Rs 97 crores.
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