 Hello and welcome to Capacity Middle East Extra, powered by JSA. I'm Dean Perine, Executive Vice President at JSA. And we are coming to you live, that's right. We are coming to you live from the luxurious Grand Hyatt Hotel and Conference Center in Dubai. It's the first time I've ever been to Dubai. We took a quick sightseeing tour and it's spectacular. It is. It really is. And joining me, and joining me, if you don't already know, is Vani Venkatesh. And Vani is the CEO of Global Business for Airtel Business. Vani, welcome to Capacity Middle East Extra, powered by JSA. We're glad you're here. Yeah, thank you. I'm equally glad that I'm here. Yeah. And so for our viewers that don't already know, why don't you tell them a little bit about you and a little bit about Airtel Business? Sure. And so as Dean kindly introduced me, my name is Vani and I run the global business for Airtel, so which effectively means that we serve all the customer needs, be it big tech, OTTs, carriers, next gen, people who wanna come to India, Africa or any other part of the world. So that's what we do. And a little bit about Airtel Business, we have a question that's unique in the sense that it's, we are the one stop technology shop for our enterprise customers, so be it connectivity, mobility, IoT, C pass, cloud, name it and we are the one stop shop. We also having a great journey of moving from a telco that we were earlier to a telco and that's a little bit of whom we are. Well, very good. So why don't we talk about India? I understand that there are a lot of, there's a lot of opportunity in India. Why don't you tell our viewers a little bit about what's going on with Airtel specifically in that region of the world? Yeah, so India obviously a ton of opportunity. We've seen data exploding, data and data growth exploding. So each consumer typically consumes about 18 gig of data, so that's large and you can therefore understand the amount of opportunity on the enterprise space. So over the last couple of years, we've seen a fair amount of big techs, OTTs coming into India, we've seen a lot of them. We have about 350 million eyeballs in India and about another 150 million in Africa. So that's about half a million eyeballs. Is that all? So far, we're not stopping. Yeah, so half a million eyeballs. We have data centers, a lot of data centers. So we have about 12 big core data centers and 120 edge data centers. We're also building another seven hyperscaler projects now in India. We're doing, we're gonna land to Africa in Africa, so we're gonna have four or five landing stations there. We have about three and a half thousand, 350,000 kilometers of fiber in India and around the world. So we basically use a bunch of infrastructure and have digital ecosystems or digital apps to power our enterprise consumers. So that's what we do in India. So it's a very exciting time. It's a growth economy. We are having fun. A growth economy, indeed it is. So let's talk a little bit about growth, specifically as it relates to your priorities. We are, here we are almost three months into the year. Why don't you tell our viewers a little bit about what your priorities are through the remainder of the year? Yeah, so there are four things that we're really focusing on. One is to continue investments. Network and infrastructure is the core of what we do. So we'll continue to invest in terrestrial fiber, subsea cables, whatever opportunities we have, wherever there's demand. So that's one. The second is partnerships. For the amount of data demand that's there, it's a very practicable for us to align with other like-minded partners who want to do the same. So we are going back on partnerships. The third is customer service. I think our consumers are demanding very differently and therefore our enterprises have to be enabled very differently. So we are raising the bar on customer service. And I guess one of the most important things we are doing is put together a digital ecosystem. So be it our cloud HCDN, right? Where we can actually get web and video delivery to the consumers closer to the edge, which enables our Big Tech, our IoT, or be it Airtel IQ, which is the world's only cloud-enabled C pass ecosystem, or be it 5G. So I think on the digital ecosystem, we are leveraging a network infrastructure to do all of that. So you've talked a lot about some of the growth drivers that we've been seeing and frankly have seen for ramping up quite literally over the last decade. So beyond maybe the proliferation of IoT devices and things like that, what do you see as some of those core growth drivers specifically in the region of this region of the world? Yeah. So I think there's a fair amount of cloud adoption, which is causing a lot of co-location needs and data center needs. We have our consumers wanting a very, very different level of delivery and level of service. And as a consequence of that, enterprises are powering the consumers very differently and therefore we're seeing some of the growth around the Edge CDNs, Edge network. We are seeing a lot of connectivity requirements with multiple diversity parts, right? So we are seeing all of that. We also seeing a fair amount of demand on sustainability. So everything we're doing, we are doing through green energy. We are actually tying up with renewable energy resources. So there's a bunch of things across the board that we are seeing really, really, really drive the demand. So you're the first person to actually mention, of course, we just really got started here just a couple of hours ago, but you mentioned sustainability. And you're right, we're hearing a lot about it. Why don't you tell our viewers a little bit about what they might be able to expect from Airtel in the kind of under the sustainability umbrella? Yeah, yeah, this is something very close to our heart. Sustainability is something very close to our heart. So I'll take our data centers and example. So we've put in all efforts to get net positive by about 2030, 2031. We are already upwards of 40% and we have some of our data centers, which are at about 90 to a percent, yeah. So we're working with the bloom energy and other renewable energy resources to make some of those happen. So we have liquid cooling technology and all the latest technology that's needed to make this happen. And we were committed to making sure that we leave the planet in a better way for the next generation as soon as possible. And a lot of the efforts that we're putting in now is in that direction because even in the data center, we're on the build stage. So it's a great time to make sure that some of these building blocks are sustainable and serve our consumers right. So yeah, it's a thing that we're very passionate about. I love it, I love it. So Bonnie, for our viewers that want to learn more about Airtel, where should they go? Yeah, but they should go to Airtel.in and they could go to the business section there and you will find a lot about us. Feel free to pull in your suggestions. We love to hear from you and become better every other day. And feel free to let us know what we can do for you and what we can do better. I love it, Bonnie. Thank you very much for bringing with us. Thank you, Dean, thank you. You bet. 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