Goa, 1st February 2019: Aegis Graham Bell Award 2018 announced Bharti Infratel as winner in “Innovation in Telecom Infrastructure” category for their innovation “Bharti Infratel: Connecting India”. Bharti Infratel has been applauded as winner at the 9th edition of Aegis Graham Bell Award 2018 hosted by Government of Goa at Entertainment Society of Goa, Panaji.
“It is a pleasure for Bharti Infratel to win the coveted award. We feel honored to have been recognized by Aegis Graham Bell. The award will go a long way in motivating the teams to create more innovating solutions that will help connect the smart India with more infrastructure sharing solutions on a non-discriminatory basis thereby heading the nation to the 5G era.” said DS Rawat, CEO & MD, Bharti Infratel.
“Bharati Infratel is a known name in the telecom fraternity and with this winning innovation, we are sure that they will continue their contribution to the telecom world and technologies. Congratulation to the team and we encourage more innovations from them” said Bhupesh Daheria, Jury & Founder, Aegis Graham Bell Awards; CEO, Aegis School of Business, Data Science, Cyber Security & Telecom
Aegis Graham Bell Awards (AGBA) has been promoting innovations and entrepreneurship in Information and Communication Technology (ICT) domain. AGBA has been rewarding those who made outstanding contribution in these fields since 8 years with a vision to foster and stimulate innovators, for India to become a nucleus of innovations.
Bharti Infratel is helping in connecting the nation by providing a layer of smart telecommunications infrastructure governed by a green vision. This infrastructure layer is a culmination of site intelligence, network intelligence and server intelligence supporting current telecom needs and building a platform for future telecom technologies. We pioneer in the concept of infrastructure sharing capabilities to support multi-operator with single controller on-site. All of this and more supported by a strong back-haul for end to end connectivity. Our products and services are automated, centralized and are equipped with high level predictive analysis for continuous learning and improvement. We believe our contribution to the telecom industry will pave the way for building a smarter and greener nation.
About Bharti Infratel:
Bharti Infratel is a provider of tower and related infrastructure and on a consolidated basis, we are one of the largest tower infrastructure providers in India, based on the number of towers that Bharti Infratel owns and operates and the number of towers owned or operated by Indus, that are represented by Bharti Infratel’s 42% equity interest in Indus.Not only did we pioneer the tower infrastructure sharing concept in India, but are also today the leaders with over 39,000+ Towers across the circles we operate in, with some of them in the remotest and tough terrains. We also pioneered the concept of environment friendly Towers or ‘GreenTowers’ and energy efficient methods for maintenance of these towers.
About Aegis Graham Bell Awards:
Aegis School of Business, Data Science, Cyber Security and Telecommunication has established the Aegis Graham Bell Award as a tribute to the father of telephony, Alexander Graham Bell. This Award is intended to promote innovations in the Information and Communication Technology (ICT) to provide recognition for outstanding contributions by the innovators. The award is powered by mUni Campus. It is organised with the support of Cellular Operators Association of India (COAI), and Telecom Centres of Excellence (TCOE) India, a public-private partnership initiative of DoT with 08 Centres at premier academic institutes (06 IITs, IISc and IIMA) of the country, each supported by a Telecom Service Provider and Convergence India and KPMG as knowledge partner. For more information, please visit: www.bellaward.com
For more information, please contact:
Shweta Chavan | Corporate Communication | Aegis Graham Bell Awards | 8433969263 | shweta@bellaward.com
