Airtel crosses 2 mn mark in Delhi

Airtel has crossed 2 mn customer mark in Delhi making the city the first metro in India to have such a mobile subscriber base.

Leading cellular service provider Airtel said on Thursday that it has crossed two million customer mark in Delhi and this has made the city the first metro in the country to have such a mobile subscriber base.

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"Airtel becomes the first mobile operator to complete this milestone in the capital," Airtel Mobile Services Executive Director Sanjay Nandrajog said.

The company which has invested over Rs 300 crore in the current fiscal plans to increase the number of cell sites (an infrastructure that carries the mobile call signals) by over 50 per cent from the current 1600 in the Delhi and NCR region.