Airtel Xstream Fiber expands FTTH network to Ladakh and Andaman and Nicobar Islands

16 Jun 2022 , 02:38 PM

Bharti Airtel Limited, India’s leading communications solutions provider, today announced the launch of Airtel Xstream Fiber, a Fiber-To-The-Home (FTTH) broadband service in Ladakh and the Andaman & Nicobar Islands.

Bharti Airtel has become the first private ISP to build out FTTH broadband in these distant locations, providing customers with world-class digital access by connecting them to the data superhighway.

Customers in Leh, Ladakh, and Port Blair, Andaman & Nicobar Islands may now get high-speed broadband with Airtel Xstream Fiber. In the next months, Airtel intends to expand the service to additional significant regional areas.

“We are delighted to provide Airtel Xstream Fiber’s high-quality internet experience to these locations,” stated Vir Inder Nath, CEO – Broadband business at Bharti Airtel.

He further added, “The post-pandemic era has seen an increase in demand for high-speed internet in homes, particularly for work-from-home, online learning, and online entertainment. Airtel is aggressively investing to meet this consumer demand, with ambitions to expand its FTTH coverage to 2,000 towns throughout the nation over the next three years and contribute to a digitally connected India.”

Airtel Xstream Fiber is packed with cutting-edge technologies to provide an exceptional experience. Its next-generation Wi-Fi routers provide symmetrical download and upload rates and can connect up to 60 devices at the same time.

At around 2.43 PM, Bharti Airtel was trading at Rs651.80 down by Rs30.2 or 4.43% from its previous closing of Rs682 on the BSE. So far in the day, it touched a high and low of Rs686 and Rs650.35 respectively.