In the end what's good for the customer is good for the company."
Kapoor said Airtel Lanka's cost structure is sustainable as the company only has 200 employees.
"We want to keep costs down to a bare minimum," Kapoor said. "We will outsource the rest."
Sri Lanka's largest celco in terms of market share, Dialog Telekom, has shed staff through a voluntary retirement scheme.
Millicom International Cellular, which owns Sri Lanka's Tigo said it was selling out of Asia.
Kapoor declined to confirm whether Airtel has put a bid for Tigo assets.
"Any opportunity across the globe which is value creating in nature, we will always be interested in. I can't comment more than that."
"We have led the affordability movement in Sri Lanka," Sanjay Kapoor, deputy chief executive of Bharti Airtel told report