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Airtel’s Sunil Bharti Mittal says Indian Telecom can recover by 2020

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Bharti slipped to No. 2 in the industry last year after Idea Cellular Ltd. and Vodafone India merged to become India’s largest operator by subscribers.

Mumbai: Bharti Airtel Ltd. Chairman Sunil Bharti Mittal said India’s ailing telecom industry may recover next year as competitors spend this year readjusting after a vicious price war and consolidation that pushed the country’s former No. 1 carrier into second place.

The billionaire, speaking with BloombergQuint at the World Economic Forum in Davos on Wednesday, described conditions in India’s hyper-competitive telecom market as “dreadful,” while also predicting a possible turning point this year. “This will be the year of perhaps hemorrhaging stopping,” he told BloombergQuint.

Bharti slipped to No. 2 in the industry last year after Idea Cellular Ltd. and the local unit of Vodafone Group Plc closed their merger to become India’s largest operator by subscribers. An intense price war for customers has only worsened since upstart  Reliance Jio Infocomm Ltd., backed by Asia’s richest man Mukesh Ambani, debuted with free services in 2016, a knock-out blow for several smaller carriers that were forced to quit the business or merge. –Bloomberg

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  1. I have a idea how to compet in jio .if someone can give a change to meet with Sunil mittal sir .I have show idea with her

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