The rollout of 5G is expected to begin in India in October 2022
The 5G spectrum auction in India, approved earlier this year, has concluded and according to the country’s telecom minister Ashwini Vaishnaw, carriers purchased a total $19 billion worth of spectrum.
As expected, Reliance...
India is to say ‘no’ to direct spectrum allocations to enterprises for private 5G and Industry 4.0, as provisioned in most other major industrial markets, according to reports. Instead, the Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (Trai) has recommended that leases for enterprise-owned private 5G...
Google will invest up to $1 billion in a partnership with Airtel as part of its Google for India Digitization Fund
Google has announced plans to invest up to $1 billion in a partnership with India’s second-largest mobile network operator Bharti Airtel as part of...
The pair used E-band spectrum to connect small cells and macro cells in areas where fiber is challenging to deploy
Earlier this week, Nokia claimed to have achieved a record breaking 9.85 backhaul capacity on Indian operator Vodafone Idea’s 5G network using E-band (60GHz to...
Indian mobile operator Vodafone Idea Limited, doing business as Vi, is working with Italy-based private 5G specialist Athonet to test 5G-based solutions for Industry 4.0, and related disciplines. The partnership is looking at industrial 5G use cases for smart construction, smart warehousing, smart agriculture,...
5G spectrum pricing has been a sticking point for Indian mobile operators, who have claimed that prices are much higher than the global going rate
In preparation for the next round of 5G spectrum auctions, India’s Department of Telecommunications (DoT) has reportedly asked telecom regulator...
Oppo India conducted a 5G Standalone (SA) network trial with its Reno6 series of devices with Reliance Jio at the mobile carrier’s 5G Lab, yielding, according to the company's “highly positive results.” The Reno6 Pro smartphone supports 11 5G bands, and the Reno6 supports...
Ciena’s photonic technology is expected to enhance user experiences on Bharti Airtel's impending 5G network
India’s Bharti Airtel announced that it deployed Ciena’s 600G and 800G photonic technology in several cities including Delhi, Mumbai, Bangalore and Kolkata to increase fiber optic network capacity to enhance...
Airtel is a board member of the O-RAN Alliance and has begun 5G trials in major Indian cities
Indian communications provider Bharti Airtel and Tata Group have announced a strategic partnership to implement a 5G network in India. Per the agreement, Airtel will pilot Tata...
Bharti Airtel signed a trading deal to sell 800 MHz spectrum in Andhra Pradesh (3.75 MHz), Delhi (1.25 MHz) and Mumbai (2.50 MHz) to rival Reliance Jio Infocomm.
Bharti Airtel’s CEO Gopal Vittal explained that the sale will allow the company to “unlock value from...
Indian mobile service provider Bharti Airtel demonstrated its Non-Standalone live 5G service the city of Hyderabad over its existing spectrum in the 1.8 GHz band. Airtel used spectrum sharing, allowing the carrier to operate 5G and 4G connections from within the same spectrum block.
Ericsson...
The deployment will benefit more than 50,000 farmers in India
Nokia and Vodafone India Foundation, the CSR arm of Vi, have deployed a Smart Agriculture (SmartAgri) solution as part of a pilot that is being implemented in 100 locations in the states of Madhya Pradesh...
The new AWS cloud region is expected to become active in mid-2022
Amazon Web Services revealed big plans to spend $2.8 billion to build a second AWS cloud region in India. The new region, located in the state of Telangana in the Hyderabad tech hub,...
Facebook’s recent investment of $5.7 billion in Reliance Jio Platforms has received much media attention. Soon after, private equity firms Vista Equity Partners, and Silver Lake announced $1.5 billion and $747 million investments into the venture. Facebook and Reliance Jio have indicated that their...
Nokia will deploy 300,000 radio units across several spectrum bands
Nokia has secured a $1 billion (nearly ₹7,636 crore) deal with India’s Bharti Airtel to supply its Single Radio Access Network (SRAN) solution across nine geographic regions in India.
In a process that is expected to...
The Facebook, Reliance Jio collaboration will involve bringing together JioMart with WhatsApp
Facebook is making a $5.7 billion investment in Reliance Jio, translating to a 9.99% stake in the Indian mobile carrier’s operations.
Facebook spoke of the development on its corporate website where comments made by...
Medical experts say that India needs several thousand ventilators to address COVID-19
The Defense Research and Development Organization (DRDO) and state-owned electronics product manufacturer Indian Telephone Industries (ITI) are in talks to produce portable ventilators as a response to COVID-19 outbreak.
ITI Chairman Rakesh Mohan Agarwal told...
Bharti Airtel achieved a median download speed of 7.4 Mbps
According to a new Tutela report, Bharti Airtel’s network is stronger than its rival telecom operators in India in four of the five key tested metrics for the network connectivity. Airtel proved to have the...
Realme doesn't seem to care that India’s 5G networks are still years away
Despite the lack of an active 5G network in India, Realme has announced the country’s first 5G smartphone, the X50 Pro 5G. The device manufacturer doesn’t seem to care that, even with...
4G to remain a focus area for regions like India
Qualcomm's three new mobile platforms, the Qualcomm Snapdragon 720G, 662 and 460, will, according to the company, enable enhanced user experiences, support Dual-Frequency (L1 and L5) GNSS to improve location positioning accuracy and robustness, and...
Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE) has opened a new ‘customer experience centre’ in Bangalore (Bengaluru), in India, to offer IoT solutions to customers and partners from across industries.
The facility, on a 20,000 square-foot campus, shared with a global engineering centre for its Pointnext Services division,...
Indian carriers have been busy conducting trials and implementing 5G-ready equipment
For some time, it was looking as if India’s 5G spectrum auctions would take place by the end of this year. However, high spectrum prices continue to throw a wrench in India’s 5G timeline....
ROKiT hopes to provide "affordable and life changing service to millions of people"
ROKiT, a self-labeled humanity first telecom company, has completed its first test of the company's wide-area Wi-Fi XL system in New Dehli. The test, which the company said was successful, is part of its multi-billion dollar investment into installing Wi-Fi across India, Asia and Africa.
“Testing...
A new Industry 4.0 design and policy centre has been opened in India by the World Economic Forum, in conjunction with the Indian government and the major industrial states of Andhra Pradesh and Maharashtra. Its first projects will focus on artificial intelligence (AI), blockchain,...
