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Nvidia bets on India with Tata Group, Reliance Industries AI partnerships

Nvidia CEO said India 'possesses size, data, and skill' necessary to be a leader in AI Nvidia announced new partnerships with Indian conglomerates Tata Group and Reliance Industries to develop language models for business and consumer AI applications, cloud infrastructure and generative services in...

#TBT: Top ‘metaplaces’; India wraps up 5G spectrum auction; FCC’s 2.5 GHz auction crawls along … this week in 2022

Editor’s Note: RCR Wireless News goes all in for “Throwback Thursdays,” tapping into our archives to resuscitate the top headlines from the past. Fire up the time machine, put on those sepia-tinted shades, set the date for #TBT and enjoy the memories! Consolidated Comms sells...

Proximus to acquire India’s Route Mobile for $721 million

Proximus Opal provides cloud-based telecom platforms for enterprise customers such as Salesforce and TikTok creator Bytedance Proximus Opal, a unit of Belgian telecom service provider Proximus Group, announced plans to buy an almost 58% stake in cloud communications platform-as-a-service company Route Mobile, to the tune...

Vodafone Idea confirms advanced negotiations with vendors for 5G

Vodafone Idea also said it has concluded device testing of all major OEMs on its upcoming 5G mobile broadband network Indian operator Vodafone Idea confirmed “advanced talks” with a number of vendors in order to define its final strategy for the deployment of 5G in...

Cellular IoT module market jumps 14% – led by China, Quectel, Qualcomm, NB-IoT

Cellular IoT module shipments rose by 14 percent in the 12 months to the end of 2022, with China leading the way for regional shipment volumes India leading the way for regional shipment growth, NB-IoT leading the way for low-power IoT volumes, LTE CAT1.bis...

Spectra expands TIP OpenWiFi architecture in India

TIP OpenWiFi is an open source-based Wi-Fi architecture that leverages open-source development and automated testing Indian managed service provider Spectra has expanded its deployment of Telecom Infra Project (TIP) OpenWiFi solutions to cover more of its Multi-Dwelling Unit (MDU) and enterprise customers. TIP OpenWiFi is an...

#TBT: US companies make plays in India’s spectrum auction; PCS, 900 MHz auction set to resume; Could it be CDMA’s year? … this week in 1996

Editor’s Note: RCR Wireless News goes all in for “Throwback Thursdays,” tapping into our archives to resuscitate the top headlines from the past. Fire up the time machine, put on those sepia-tinted shades, set the date for #TBT and enjoy the memories! US companies partner...

Celona on CBRS-bashing by old telco crowd – plus global expansion, growth verticals

Last month, the CBRS community in the US made a swift counter-strike, in the form of a joint letter to the FCC and NTIA, against a report by telecoms lobby group CTIA that said private and shared cellular is bad for the US economy...

AWS opens second India region

Hyderabad joins Mumbai as AWS expands its Asia Pacific presence Amazon Web Services (AWS) announced Monday the general availability of its second region in India. The new Hyderabad region, located in the state of Telangana, is called ap-south-2 and has launched with three Availability Zones. Regions...

#TBT: 19 Sprints and counting; Verizon preps Wi-Fi calling; Vodafone invests in India … this week in 2015

Editor’s Note: RCR Wireless News goes all in for “Throwback Thursdays,” tapping into our archives to resuscitate the top headlines from the past. Fire up the time machine, put on those sepia-tinted shades, set the date for #TBT and enjoy the memories! 19 Sprints and...

Foxconn, Vedanta sign $19.5B semiconductor factory deal for India

The new factory will be built in the Indian PM’s home state of Gujarat Taiwanese semiconductor giant Foxconn and Indian mining conglomerate Vedanta have announced a deal with the Indian government to build one of the first semiconductor manufacturing facilities in the country. The $19.5...

IBM, Airtel build secure edge services for Indian businesses

A look inside the companies’ three-prong strategy with IBM’s head of cloud, 5G, and edge IBM on Wednesday announced a partnership with Indian telco Bharti Airtel to bring forth a massive edge computing project that will include 120 network data centers across 20 cities in...

Reliance Jio plans $25B Indian 5G buildout

The company is also working with Google on an “ultra-affordable” 5G handset, said its chairman  With its 5G spectrum auction behind it, the government of India is putting the pressure on regional Communication Service Providers (CSPs) to quickly spin up 5G service for Indian consumers...

89% of Indian consumers plan to upgrade to 5G: Ookla

Further, 48% intend to upgrade to 5G 'as soon as possible,' Ookla reported India recently concluded a 5G spectrum auction in which the country’s operators spent a total of total $19 billion for spectrum across 700 MHz, 800 MHz, 900 MHz, 1.8 GHz, 2.1 GHz,...

India concludes $19 billion 5G auction

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 says ‘no’ to direct private 5G licences “for now” – but ‘maybe later’

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 to invest in Bharti Airtel, picking up 1.28% stake

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...

Nokia, Vodafone Idea claim ‘fiber-like’ 5G speeds using E-band

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...

Vodafone Idea taps Athonet for Industry 4.0 trials in dedicated test spectrum in India

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,...

India preps for next round of 5G spectrum auctions, seeks pricing recommendations

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 conducts 5G Standalone trial for Reno6 Series at Reliance Jio’s 5G Lab

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 to reportedly triple Bharti Airtel’s network capacity

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...

Bharti Airtel to trial Tata Group’s O-RAN solutions in India

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 to sell ‘unutilized’ 800 MHz spectrum to Reliance Jio

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...