{"id":911588,"date":"2025-03-05T10:57:10","date_gmt":"2025-03-05T05:27:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=911588"},"modified":"2025-03-05T10:57:10","modified_gmt":"2025-03-05T05:27:10","slug":"bharti-airtel-chairman-sunil-mittal-says-with-return-on-capital-in-telecom-industry-we-may-as-well-put-the-money-in-the-bank-and-go","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2025\/03\/05\/bharti-airtel-chairman-sunil-mittal-says-with-return-on-capital-in-telecom-industry-we-may-as-well-put-the-money-in-the-bank-and-go\/","title":{"rendered":"Bharti Airtel chairman Sunil Mittal says with return on capital in telecom industry, \u201cWe may as well put the money in the bank and go &#8230;&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Bharti Airtel chairman Sunil Mittal lamented poor return on capital expenditure for the telecom industry world wide. Speaking on Day 1 at the Europe&#8217;s biggest mobile industry annual tradeshow, Mittal said that the way the telecom industry functions globally is unsustainable. &#8220;We will [have] to reset our industry.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Mittal urged telecom authorities worldwide to lower taxes and allocate sufficient spectrum at affordable rates. He said that while average industry revenue growth is just around 2%, year after year telecom companies have to face demands to buy expensive spectrum. This amounts to almost putting $200 billion into capex annually.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bharti Airtel chairman Sunil Mittal lamented poor return on capital expenditure for the telecom industry world wide. Speaking on Day 1 at the Europe&#8217;s biggest mobile industry annual tradeshow, Mittal said that the way the telecom industry functions globally is unsustainable. &#8220;We will [have] to reset our industry.\u201d Mittal urged telecom authorities worldwide to lower taxes and allocate sufficient spectrum at affordable rates. He said that while average industry revenue growth is just around 2%, year after year telecom companies have to face demands to buy expensive spectrum. This amounts to almost putting $200 billion into capex annually.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,88,11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-911588","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newspapers","category-telecom-the-times-of-india","category-the-times-of-india"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/911588","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\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=911588"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/911588\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=911588"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=911588"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=911588"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}