{"id":1049288,"date":"2026-11-14T09:02:48","date_gmt":"2026-11-14T03:32:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=1049288"},"modified":"2026-11-14T09:45:33","modified_gmt":"2026-11-14T04:15:33","slug":"ai-cloud-and-compute-will-drive-airtels-next-phase-sunil-bharti-mittal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/11\/14\/ai-cloud-and-compute-will-drive-airtels-next-phase-sunil-bharti-mittal\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018AI, cloud and compute will drive Airtel\u2019s next phase\u2019: Sunil Bharti Mittal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Bharti Enterprises has completed 50 years. Founder and Chairman Sunil Bharti Mittal, in an interview with Rishi Raj &#038; Ojasvi Gupta, reflects on the transformation of India\u2019s telecom sector, the group\u2019s ambitions beyond telecom, the opportunities in AI and digital infrastructure, and why professional management will remain central to its future. Excerpts:<\/p>\n<p>Q. Bharti completes 50 years at a time when India\u2019s digital economy has undergone a remarkable transformation. How do you look at the evolution of the telecom sector and its contribution to the country?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bharti Enterprises has completed 50 years. Founder and Chairman Sunil Bharti Mittal, in an interview with Rishi Raj &#038; Ojasvi Gupta, reflects on the transformation of India\u2019s telecom sector, the group\u2019s ambitions beyond telecom, the opportunities in AI and digital infrastructure, and why professional management will remain central to its future. Excerpts: Q. Bharti completes 50 years at a time when India\u2019s digital economy has undergone a remarkable transformation. How do you look at the evolution of the telecom sector and its contribution to the country?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[63,4,12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1049288","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2-the-financial-express","category-newspapers","category-the-financial-express"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1049288","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1049288"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1049288\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1049292,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1049288\/revisions\/1049292"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1049288"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1049288"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1049288"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}