Vi eyes 40% of revenues from 5G in over two yearsIn its presentation, the telecom JV between UK's Vodafone and India's Aditya Birla Group, said its delayed entry into the country's next-ge...
13 Mar, 2024, 12.33 AM IST
Telecom secretary meets US Deputy NSA to launch OpenRAN planThe agreement came during Neeraj Mittal's, secretary of the Department of Telecommunications (DoT), visit to the United States starting Jan...
18 Jan, 2024, 12.15 AM IST
Vodafone Idea may miss December deadline for fundraiseAccording to the officials, Vi continues to be in discussions with the potential investors, including in the US, to raise fresh capital by ...
28 Nov, 2023, 07.38 AM IST
Airtel picks Mavenir for openRANIt initially plans to deploy 2,500 sites on OpenRAN and scale it to 10,000 over time, people familiar with the matter said. According to in...
15 May, 2023, 11.28 PM IST
Nokia expects commercial 5G deals after spectrum auction; gets initial trusted product approvalsIndia head Sanjay Malik said that if the auction takes place around May-June period, then the initial 5G network rollouts can start in the ...
15 Feb, 2022, 06.52 PM IST
Nokia, Ericsson not serious Open RAN players: MavenirPankajakshan's comments come on the heels of alleged exorbitant pricing by Nokia and Ericsson in the wake of locked radio interface, follow...
14 Feb, 2022, 08.09 AM IST
Make all 5G spectrum available in one go for efficient capex, opex planning: Reliance Jio PresidentMardikar said that the execution of the OpenRAN technology will be crucial and will be done as a "thought through exercise"".
15 Dec, 2021, 04.03 PM IST
Vodafone Idea in talks with vendors for sourcing 5G gearThe aim is to negate potential cost implications that sourcing from traditional European vendors Nokia and Ericsson may have in the absence...
06 Dec, 2021, 07.27 AM IST
Bharti Airtel partners with open network provider Mavenir for 5G trialsThe alliance between the two includes deployment of captive 5G standalone (SA) and non-standalone (NSA) modes for both core and radio netwo...
15 Nov, 2021, 09.37 PM IST
Airtel leading ORAN initiative in India with best partners: Gopal Vittal"We have built a network that’s fully ready for 5G. It’s a capability we have already demonstrated by conducting India’s first 5G demo over...
04 Aug, 2021, 05.53 PM IST
Intel lands 5G network deal with Airtel, move will help telco accelerate rolloutThis is Intel’s second 5G-related partnership in India. It recently joined hands with Reliance Jio to help the telco with its 5G network de...
22 Jul, 2021, 07.17 AM IST
Airtel counters Jio's local 5G narrative; partners Tata Group to deploy OpenRAN-based 5G in IndiaOpenRAN as a concept enables hardware and software to be dis-aggregated, unlike conventional radio gears, allowing technology products from...
21 Jun, 2021, 04.54 PM IST
Bharti Airtel partners with chip giant Qualcomm to drive Open-RAN 5G rollout in IndiaAn OpenRAN (O-RAN) board member, Airtel said that it will leverage Qualcomm’s 5G RAN platforms – which runs on the cloud - to rollout virtu...
23 Feb, 2021, 02.38 PM IST
Japan’s NEC in talks with Indian telcos for 5G-based OpenRAN deploymentNEC recently set up an Open RAN laboratory in India as a complement to its Center of Excellence (CoE) in the U.K to accelerate development ...
20 Feb, 2021, 01.44 PM IST
Airtel's dramatic strategy shift: Build local 5G gear local ecosystem via own R&D and US, Japanese partnersIn the Works Telecom company to develop technology through R&D and collaboration; aims to locally produce equipment through contract manufa...
21 Oct, 2020, 10.12 AM IST
Reliance Jio's homegrown tech may give them a leg up in India's 5G raceLast month, RIL chairman Mukesh Ambani had said Jio had developed a homegrown 5G technology solution and planned to offer it to other telco...
14 Aug, 2020, 12.27 PM IST
RIL chairman Mukesh Ambani announces development of home-grown complete 5G solutionAmbani added that it will be ready for trials as soon as the spectrum is available.
17 Jul, 2020, 12.50 PM IST