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Trending Now vritti August 2020 13 COVID-19 triggered factors like social distancing and lockdown are forcing consumers to change their behaviour, and operators should leverage this to increase adoption of their digital services like online recharge, self-help, etc. This is also an ideal situation to win customers' hearts by extending exclusive offers like billing discounts, extra validity, free services etc. Such moves will enhance customer loyalty and help them in the long run. COVID-19 crisis has clearly proven that telecom services are critical for any country, crisis or no crisis. Operators should utilize this opportunity and urge policymakers to help them in acquiring more spectrum and providing tax sops to build a world-class telecom infrastructure for their country. Authors Chirantan has over 11 years of experience across a gamut of industries including telecom, management consulting and insurance. He has extensive exposure to multiple functions such as product management, pricing, business planning and consulting. At Comviva, he is serving as Deputy General Manager in product management for the mobile financial solutions. Saransh has over 6 years of experience across industries including Telecom-IT and defence. At Comviva, he is serving as Deputy Manager in product management for the mobile financial solutions.