Bharti Airtel has announced that it will set up a digital technology hub in Pune and will employ 500 people. This will be Airtel’s fourth digital technology hub in India and first in the Western region to support its transition to a digital services company, as 5G services are on the horizon.
The development comes in the backdrop of telco’s aim at becoming a digital services company. The Pune facility will employ 500 digital engineers including professionals with expertise across multiple experience and domains – big data, machine learning (ML), dev ops, tech ops, etc.. The existing three facilities in Gurgaon, Bengaluru (Airtel X-Labs) and Noida employ close to 3000 people.
Additionally, the company also said that it has made investments worth more than $46 billion in the last couple of decades to create digital infrastructure over which 40 per cent of India’s economic and digital activity takes place. Currently, Airtel’s digital assets include offerings like Airtel Thanks app, Wynk Music app, Airtel Xstream content platform which the teleco says accrue over 180 million MAUs (monthly active users).
