TelecomTV: Bharti Airtel rises to the Covid-19 challenge and discovers the purpose of telecoms

Bharti Airtel’s response to the huge national problem and human tragedy presented by Covid-19 has had a profound effect on the organization, according to the telco's Global CIO, Harmeen Mehta.

22 Oct 2020

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Bharti Airtel’s response to the huge national problem and human tragedy presented by Covid-19 has had a profound effect on the organization, according to Harmeen Mehta, Global CIO of Bharti Airtel, speaking at TM Forum’s Digital Transformation World.

She talks of discovering “the purpose of telecoms”. It’s a purpose that is often obscured, if not forgotten, in the hurly-burly of quarterly results, profits, ARPUs and all the rest of the profane measures of ‘success’ in today’s telecoms world.

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