Health care, generative AI among major bets, in talks with Indian telcos for OpenRAN: Rakuten India CEOFrom around 100 employees in 2016, to housing 2000 people in its largest office outside Tokyo, the Indian arm of Rakuten, the Japanese tech...
23 Aug, 2023, 10.46 AM IST
Pacts signed with US during PM Modi's visit to shape the future of tech: MoS IT Rajeev ChandrasekharIn an interview with a news wire, Chandrasekhar said there is no space of technology and emerging technology where India and Indian enterpr...
27 Jun, 2023, 11.13 PM 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
5G network rollout likely in August: Telecom SecretaryPrivate telcos like Bharti Airtel, Vodafone Idea and Reliance Jio are also increasingly looking to expand their telecom gear supplier optio...
17 Jun, 2022, 12.25 PM IST
Facebook parent Meta partners with AMD for mobile infrastructure programMeta Platforms and chipmaker AMD are partnering for a mobile internet infrastructure program that would bring base station costs down to ma...
11 May, 2022, 06.54 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
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
Airtel files plea for OpenRAN-based 5G trials in PunjabOpenRAN as a concept enables hardware and software to be dis-aggregated, unlike conventional radio gears, allowing technology products from...
13 Mar, 2021, 11.34 AM IST
PLI Scheme, OpenRAN will help India's telecom vendor ecosystem grow, says AirtelThere will be 5G use cases which will be developed in India by local companies who can ship these use cases to global markets, he said. The...
06 Mar, 2021, 08.52 AM IST
India's ICT industry capable of developing 5G hardware, software architecture, says RakutenRakuten is expanding its research and development (R&D) footprint in India by doubling its workforce in Bangalore.
26 Feb, 2021, 12.45 PM IST
OpenRAN can open doors to new 5G world: Rakuten CTOOpenRAN enables hardware and software to be disaggregated, unlike conventional radio gears, allowing technology products from different sup...
26 Feb, 2021, 07.34 AM 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
Jio Platforms may push 5G technology in less advanced marketsJio Platforms may target West Asia, Eastern Europe and Southeast Asian regions for self-developed 5G technology after it tests and scales i...
25 Aug, 2020, 10.10 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
Telcos adopting OpenRAN tech to cut network costsOpenRAN is compatible with 2G, 3G and 4G services, with 5G expected in the future, and allows more customization of the network architectur...
07 Jul, 2020, 11.03 AM IST