Strategic Partnership Overview
ITI Limited, India's first PSU post-independence and premier telecom manufacturer, has entered into a strategic collaboration with Airtel Business, the business arm of Bharti Airtel Limited. The partnership was announced via a press release dated August 10, 2026, and filed under Regulation 30 of SEBI (Listing Obligation and Disclosure Requirements) Regulations, 2015.
Partnership Objectives and Scope
The collaboration aims to help enterprises in India fast-track their digital transformation and unlock new opportunities for growth, resilience, and innovation. The partnership will combine the complementary strengths and engineering excellence of both organizations to address key challenges including fragmented legacy environments, rising cybersecurity risks, growing data demands, and the need for greater operational agility.
Solution Offerings
The strategic collaboration will deliver an integrated suite of future-ready digital solutions across multiple domains:
- Enterprise connectivity (OFC, GPON, SD-WAN, and private 4G/5G)
- Data center & sovereign cloud services
- Industrial IoT asset tracking
- AI-powered analytics
- Full-stack cybersecurity solutions
- LEO satellite services
The platform is specifically designed for regulated sectors like banking and PSUs.
Strategic Focus Areas
The collaboration will also support the defence and security needs of the nation through innovation, with a focus on Make in India and Atmanirbhar Bharat initiatives. The partnership aims to provide nationwide digital and telecom infrastructure.
Management Commentary
Rajesh Rai, Chairman and Managing Director, ITI Limited stated: "Extremely enthusiastic on this momentous occasion, wherein ITI Ltd. and Bharti Airtel Ltd. have come together with this MoU to offer state of the art services and solutions to our customers. This collaboration would pave way for joint identification and fulfilment of our customer needs in terms of their digital transformation, extremely ubiquitous and faster connectivity, hyper scale data centers, cybersecurity solutions, IoT and a lot more while leveraging the complementary strengths of both organizations in terms of business orientation, customer reach and manufacturing capabilities."
Sharat Sinha, CEO - Airtel Business stated: "As India accelerates into its next phase of digital growth, building a foundation that is resilient, sovereign, and regulatorily compliant is imperative. As a trusted partner to enterprises across the country, at Airtel Business, we have consistently helped them simplify complexity, transform legacy environments, and enable digitization at scale. Today, we are delighted to partner with ITI Limited, in a shared ambition to create future-ready technology solutions that strengthen business continuity, unlock innovation, and support India's secure digital-first future."
Company Background - ITI Limited
ITI Limited is a multi-unit central public sector undertaking with state-of-art manufacturing facilities in six locations: Bengaluru, Naini, Raebareli, Mankapur, Srinagar and Palakkad. The company has an in-house R&D center in Bengaluru and marketing, sales & projects offices across the country. The company offers complete range of telecom products covering switching, transmission, and access & subscriber premises equipment. ITI is diversifying into defense, IOT, e-governance, IT projects and services sector, and successfully runs a state-of-art Data Centre at Bengaluru unit serving government institutions, departments, and banks.
Company Background - Bharti Airtel
Bharti Airtel is a global communications solutions provider with over 650 million customers in 15 countries across India and Africa, ranked second amongst mobile operators globally. Airtel Business offers technology solutions across secure connectivity, sovereign cloud and data center services, cyber security, IoT, and cloud-based communication. Airtel's digital arm – Xtelify, empowers telcos globally with AI, data and technology solutions.