Airtel IQ Business Connect, powered by Vonage, is part of Airtel’s cloud communications suite dubbed Airtel IQ
Airtel Business, the enterprise arm of Indian operator Bharti Airtel, has teamed up with Vonage, a global cloud communications specialist and subsidiary of Ericsson, to introduce Airtel IQ...
Airtel said that the trial was conducted at its tech lab and achieved uplink speeds of 300 Mbps
Airtel, MediaTek and Nokia announced the successful completion of trials combining Time Division Duplex (TDD) and Frequency Division Duplex (FDD) mid-band spectrum on a time basis utilizing...
Airtel provides IoT services for enterprises across different industries such as automobile, energy, utilities, logistics, financial services and manufacturing
Indian operator Bharti Airtel announced that its B2B division Airtel Business, has already connected over 20 million devices through its IoT solutions across India.
The company said...
Airtel said it has launched its 5G offering in over 370 sites across the country
Kenyan operator Airtel announced the launch of commercial 5G services in the African nation.
With this launch, Airtel has become the second operator to launch 5G in Kenya, after Safaricom.
Airtel said...
5G smartphone sales in India surpassed the 100 million mark for the first time in May 2023
The mass adoption of 5G services in India is being hindered by patchy network coverage and the lack of affordable 5G smartphones in the local market, according to...
In December 2022, Airtel secured 100 megahertz of spectrum in the 3.5 GHz band
Airtel Nigeria launched its 5G services in the African nation, according to local press reports.
The 5G offering will be available in Abuja, Lagos and Port Harcourt in an initial phase, with...
Airtel said its NB-IoT platform is scalable to 5G
Indian carrier Bharti Airtel announced its partnership with Secure Meters for the deployment of NB-IoT services that will power 1.3 million homes in Bihar state through a smart meter solution.
Bharti Airtel noted that this deployment will...
Bharti Airtel said it will reach 4,000 cities across India with 5G by June
Indian operator Bharti Airtel aims to cover all urban areas across India with its 5G by September 2023, ahead of its earlier target of March 2024, local newspaper The Economic Times...
Jio said its 5G network currently reaches 331 cities across India
Indian operator Reliance Jio Infocomm announced the launch of 5G services across 27 cities in 13 states, taking the total of towns and cities covered by its 5G network infrastructure to 331, the telco...
Operators in India started to deploy 5G networks in October 2022
The government of India has announced plans to set up 100 labs in the top engineering institutions across the country to develop apps and services for 5G networks, local press reported.
“To realize new opportunities,...
In India, the 6 GHz band is partly used by the Indian Space Research Organisation (Isro) for satellite operations
Indian operators Reliance Jio, Bharti Airtel and Vodafone Idea  asked the government to identify and release 6 GHz spectrum band for the provision of 5G services,...
Nokia has already secured 5G contracts with Bharti Airtel and Reliance Jio Infocomm in India
Finnish vendor Nokia believes that the low margins it is seeing in the Indian telecom infrastructure market will be offset by a larger scale compared to other markets, the company’s...
American Tower (ATC) has invested approximately $300 million in energy efficiency improvements and solutions
Airtel Africa and American Tower (ATC) have announced a multi-year strategic partnership that involves communication sites across Kenya, Niger, Nigeria and Uganda and prioritizes extending digital inclusion to underserved communities and...
Qualcomm has committed to invest INR7.3 billion ($97.1 million) in India’s Jio Platforms with the aim of supporting the Indian firm in the future rollout of 5G services in the Indian market.
Qualcomm Ventures’ investment will translate into 0.15% equity stake in Jio Platforms.
Jio Platforms,...
India’s
incumbent telecom operators are expected to launch 5G trials in June after a
panel at the Telecom Ministry has recommended spectrum for the tests, local
press reported.
The panel, which deliberated on the amount of necessary spectrum and duration of the 5G trial, has recommended 5G spectrum...
Industry sources said that the Chinese vendor will probably work with local carrier Airtel in 5G trials
Chinese vendor Huawei said it expects to start a 5G trial in India early next year, according to Indian press reports.
The company did not identify its local partner....
Dropped calls are a big problem in India due to economics and sheer geography presenting hindrances to robust mobile network deployments. Now, national regulator Trai is considering penalizing operators for each dropped call.
The Times of India reports Trai is considering penalizing operators 1 rupee...
Nigeria has the largest telecom market in Africa, but it also has a large share of problems, which include dropped calls, unsolicited texts and calls, and credit losses. The country's Consumer Protection Council has now warned mobile operators that their officials may soon face criminal charges if the situation...
Indian telecom major Bharti Airtel lacks green agenda in its investments in Africa, Greenpeace Tuesday stated in its briefing paper on International Green Telecom Leadership.
The total subscriber base of the company not stands at 38.79 million. Uninor is a joint venture between Norway-based Telenor and India's Unitech Limited.
India's leading mobile phone operator Bharti Airtel Thursday announced the pan India launch of 'airtel money', the country's first of its kind mobile wallet service by a mobile operator.
The operating profitability of the mobile players like Airtel, Idea, Vodafone, Tata Teleservices and Sistema Shyam Teleservices will improve by 5% in the next two years, according to credit rating agency Crisil.
Uninor, in its response, has stated that only Private Respondents (whose licenses have been quashed by the SC judgement) and fresh applicants (well funded entities with no link to incumbent operators) should be eligible to take part in the auction of spectrum that has become available after the SC cancelled 122 2G licenses.
