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Explain How Airtel India Configured The Value Chain. Ans:-Outsourcing Operations
Explain How Airtel India Configured The Value Chain. Ans:-Outsourcing Operations
Explain How Airtel India Configured The Value Chain. Ans:-Outsourcing Operations
Bharti Airtel gave the contract of its IT operations to IBM starting from supplying,
installing and managing all of its hardware and software.
Outsourcing of maintenance of towers to Nokia and Ericsson gave them the
technology competencies as Nokia and Ericsson having huge customers across the
world, they have far more superior domain expertise than Airtel could have had.
They managed the company’s telecom towers under a separate company Indus
Towers and also partnered with its competitors like Idea and Vodafone so as they can
reduce duplication costs or other costs involved.