Airtel Business, the business arm of Bharti Airtel that offers connectivity and technology communications solutions, and Bengaluru-based ITI Limited, post-independent India’s first PSU, 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.
The collaboration will combine the complementary strengths and engineering excellence of ITI and Airtel Business to help businesses modernise legacy systems, improve operational efficiency, strengthen security, and respond faster to changing business demands.
Rajesh Rai, Chairman and Managing Director, ITI Limited, said, “This collaboration will pave the way for joint identification and fulfilment of our customer needs in terms of their digital transformation, extremely ubiquitous and faster connectivity, hyper scale data centres, cybersecurity solutions, IoT, and a lot more while leveraging the complementary strengths of both organisations in terms of business orientation, customer reach and manufacturing capabilities.’’
Through an integrated suite of future-ready and scalable digital solutions across enterprise connectivity, data centre & sovereign cloud services, IoT, AI-powered solutions, LEO satellite services, cybersecurity, and more, the partnership would enable businesses to overcome legacy complexity, strengthen digital resilience, and build for the future to unlock new growth opportunities.
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. We have partnered with ITI 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 is expected to 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 partnership would deliver nationwide digital and telecom infrastructure, combining high-speed enterprise connectivity through Optical Fibre Cable, Gigabit Passive Optical Network, Software-Defined Wide Area Network, private 4G/5G (Private Fourth Generation/ Fifth Generation cellular networks) with secure data centre and sovereign cloud services.
Designed for regulated sectors like banking and PSUs, the platform would integrate industrial IoT asset tracking, AI-powered analytics, and full-stack cybersecurity solutions. In addition, the collaboration would try to support the defence and security needs of the nation through innovation, Make in India and Atmanirbhar Bharat focus.
Published - August 12, 2026 09:28 am IST