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Bharti Airtel is a leading global telecommunications company with operations in 20 countries across Asia and Africa. The company ranks amongst the top four mobile service providers globally in term of subscribers, offering a full range of wireless services, mobile commerce, fixed line services and high speed DSL broadband to India. In supporting India’s largest telecom services provider, Bharti Airtel’s legal team have been the backbone of a number of crucial technology-enhancing projects in the country. Director, legal and regulatory Sameer Chugh has steered the team through Bharti Airtel’s numerous mergers and acquisitions to fortify its telecommunications brand and novel services. With attempts to develop intensive coverage and user experience, the legal team have supported its partnership with Huawei Telecommunications to deploy Airtel’s, massive multiple-input-multiple output (MIMO) in Bangalore. This new technology is aimed to meet the rise in demand for higher network speeds to boost spectrum efficiency and it is considered an important step towards the further development and future of 5G evolution in the country.