Airtel, Google Cloud partner to accelerate Digital Transformation in India

Bharti Airtel has recently partnered with the Google Cloud to offer G Suite to small and medium-sized businesses in India.

G Suite is a suite of intelligent applications – Gmail, Docs, Calendar, Drive, and more designed with real-time collaboration and machine intelligence to bring people together and help them work safer and smarter.

To accelerate digital transformation in India, Cloud Services Providers (CSPs) are tapping into the partnership with the Indian firms to gather into the fast-growing demand for digital services in the country. India is the fastest-growing economies in the world and has the second-highest number of internet users across the globe.

Airtel has started offering G-suite starting 20th January 2020. The offering is available with all Airtel corporate postpaid plans starting INR 399/- only.

Executive Opinion

Chief Executive of Google Cloud, Thomas Kurian, said, "The combination of G-Suite’s collaboration and productivity tools with Airtel’s digital business offerings will help accelerate digital innovations for thousands of Indian businesses."

MD and CEO (India and South Asia), Bharti Airtel, Gopal Vittal, said, "India, with its growing economy and adoption of digital services, offers one of the biggest opportunities to serve customers with innovative solutions. We are pleased to strengthen our deep relationship with Google Cloud further and build products and services aimed at transforming Indian businesses."

Digital Transformations and Cloud Services Partnership

Airtel has penetration into more than 3000 large businesses and more than 450000 SMBs along with technology startups across India. This latest partnership will offer a platform for both the companies to tap into digital transformation growth opportunities in India, notes the announcement.

G Suite will form a part of Airtel’s integrated B2B connectivity solutions for businesses starting 20th January 2020, notes the announcement.
In August 2019, Jio announced a ten-year agreement with Microsoft to help the operator to set up a network of large data centers across India. The technology giant will be going to deploy Azure cloud platforms in these centers to support offerings.

Jio had also revealed that it would also offer the combined cloud Microsoft app infrastructure free of cost to startups and for a monthly fee of INR 1500 to the ministry of micro, small, and medium enterprises.

Update: Corrected title of this post