CEO who helped Airtel withstand Jio's juggernaut
Mint Hyderabad
|December 24, 2025
Gopal Vittal will move up as executive vice chairman starting 2026, Bharti Airtel announced in October 2024.
Gopal (Vittal) is one of those rare leaders who is equally left and right brained. I once barged into Gopal's office and found him listening to Kumar Gandharva while deep in his Excel sheets.
— Sudhir Sitapati, managing director and chief executive officer (CEO) of Godrej Consumer Products.
Over the last nine-ten years, India's telecom sector has been buffeted into submission by the entry of the country's richest and most powerful businessman into phone services. From 13 players in 2014, there are today just four companies remaining in the business—led by Mukesh Ambani's Reliance Jio Infocomm (Jio).
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