Airtel-Google partnership focuses on a shared vision: Gopal Vittal

The fact is that we have limited ability to dilute overall. So this is a more strategic investment, which is based on two companies that have a very shared vision of where this digital ecosystem is going and how to reshape.

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"Our strategy remains unchanged. As far as smartphone access is concerned, we always mentioned that we are looking at working across a battery of lending players to bring down unit prices, by capabilities to target cash backs and incentives into a device."

Bharti Airtel is already investing in $2.5 billion in capex, and will continue to allocate capital towards several areas such as home broadband, data centers, and 5G networks. Bharti Airtel chief executive (SA) Gopal Vittal talks on smartphone strategy, 5G applications, and partnership with Google. Edited excerpts from an analyst call.Google is investing $300mn, what will be the contribution of Airtel? How is the enterprise ecosystem getting
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