Bharti Airtel launches carrier digital platform for wholesale voice business

India's largest telecom service provider Bharti Airtel launches carrier digital platform for wholesale voice business. The new venture will enable global carriers to do wholesale voice business with Airtel at the click of a button.

The digital platform will offer paperless sign-up, quick voice interconnects and real-time traffic analytics for global carriers across the world.

To offer a unique model to global carriers, the platform will not only allow customers to buy voice termination services from Airtel but also enable them to propose sell rates for their target markets, the company said.

Ajay Chitkara, Director, and CEO - Global Voice & Data Business, Bharti Airtel said, "This is yet another digital innovation from Airtel to empower our customers, who can now leverage Airtel's global voice network on a real-time basis with high-quality voice termination. The platform will bring enhanced efficiency, convenience, agility, transparency and further strengthen our position as the preferred partner for customers across the world."

With on-boarding time reduced to few hours, the platform offers LIVE rates for routes across the world enabling faster decision making for traffic exchange. Through real-time usage analytics, users can access various real-time online reports that will track key performance indicators (KPIs) including traffic, traffic rates, payment etc. for destinations of their choice.

The voice platform, which has been designed on the basis of extensive customer insights, will empower global carriers with faster decision making, ease of business and enhanced business efficiency through considerable reduction in time required to get started on voice interconnects.

The telco also confirmed that it will provide a single window on the digital platform for product discovery, on-boarding, billing, payment, inquiry, and support across multiple B2B products.

At present, Airtel is the third largest mobile operator globally serving 390+ million subscribers across 16 countries in Asia and Africa.

Meanwhile, the company claims that it has a worldwide network coverage spanning 250,000 route kilometers across 50 countries and 5 continents.

With over 1200 global carrier partnerships, Airtel has been able to establish the strong network in emerging and growth leading geographies through agile, transparent and high performing processes.