Mittal, also the chairman of India’s largest telco Bharti Airtel, delivered the keynote address at the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona.On roaming, Bharti Airtel will take the lead by “killing” domestic roaming charges from April 1, he said. You build one massive network from which everyone is served. (The) Benefit is that it is not just lower investment in capex but your spectrum efficiency also rises significantly. The need for base stations is halved immediately,” Mittal said.This will help telcos become truly digital, marketing companies. He said that some active sharing is on, but while “people have started talking about network sharing, using common spectrum, very little has happened.”(The writer is in Barcelona on a trip sponsored by Oppo)

Source: Economic Times February 27, 2017 19:30 UTC