Airtel Business and ITI Limited enter into strategic partnership to accelerate India’s digital transformation

Airtel Business, India`s leading provider of secure and reliable connectivity, technology, and communications solutions, and ITI Limited, country’s first PSU post-independence and premier telecom and varied technology segment manufacturer, have entered into a strategic collaboration to help enterprises in India fast-track their digital transformation and unlock new opportunities for growth, resilience, and innovation.

As enterprises across the country advance their digitization in line with the nation’s digital growth and development agenda, the collaboration will combine the complementary strengths and engineering excellence of ITI Limited and Airtel Business, to help businesses modernize legacy systems, improve operational efficiency, strengthen security, and respond faster to changing business demands.

Through an integrated suite of future-ready and scalable digital solutions across enterprise connectivity, data center & sovereign cloud services, IoT, AI-powered solutions, LEO satellite services, cybersecurity, and more, the partnership will enable businesses to overcome legacy complexity, strengthen digital resilience, and build for the future to unlock new growth opportunities.

Rajesh Rai, Chairman and Managing Director, ITI Limited, said, “Extremely enthusiastic on this momentous occasion, wherein ITI Ltd. and Bharti Airtel Ltd. have come together with this MoU to offer state of the art services and solutions to our customers. This collaboration would pave way for joint identification and fulfilment of our customer needs in terms of their digital transformation, extremely ubiquitous and faster connectivity, hyper scale data centers, cybersecurity solutions, IoT and a lot more while leveraging the complementary strengths of both organizations in terms of business orientation, customer reach and manufacturing capabilities”.

Sharat Sinha, CEO - Airtel Business, said, “As India accelerates into its next phase of digital growth, building a foundation that is resilient, sovereign, and regulatorily compliant is imperative. As a trusted partner to enterprises across the country, at Airtel Business, we have consistently helped them simplify complexity, transform legacy environments, and enable digitization at scale. Today, we are delighted to partner with ITI Limited, in a shared ambition to create future-ready technology solutions that strengthen business continuity, unlock innovation, and support India’s secure digital-first future.”

By bringing together their respective digital capabilities, the collaboration will help businesses across industries to address key challenges of fragmented legacy environments, rising cybersecurity risks, growing data demands, and the need for greater operational agility.

The strategic collaboration will deliver nationwide digital and telecom infrastructure, combining high-speed enterprise connectivity (OFC, GPON, SD-WAN, and private 4G/5G) with secure data center and sovereign cloud services. Designed for regulated sectors like banking and PSUs, the platform will also integrate industrial IoT asset traracking, AI-powered analytics, and full-stack cybersecurity solutions. In addition, the collaboration would also try to support the defence and security needs of the nation through innovation, Make in India and Atmanirbhar Bharat focus.

Airtel Business is the business arm of Bharti Airtel - one of India’s leading telecommunications service providers. The company offers a gamut of technology solutions across secure connectivity, sovereign cloud and data center services, cyber security, IoT, and cloud-based communication.