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As India accelerates its digital transformation, resilient, intelligent connectivity is becoming essential for global enterprises seeking to scale operations, ensure business continuity, and unlock opportunities across the country’s fast-growing AI, cloud, fintech, and digital services sectors. India is fast emerging …

Vodafone Idea’s 5G expansion strengthens its market position, but it still has work to do to close the gap with Reliance Jio and Bharti Airtel. In sum – what to know: Rapid coverage expansion – Vodafone Idea plans to grow …

Airtel said that the new offerings include a sovereign telco-grade cloud platform and an AI-powered software suite In sum – what to know: India-built telco cloud launched – Airtel’s Xtelify unveiled ‘Airtel Cloud’, a sovereign, telco-grade platform promising 40% cloud …

Ericsson is to run all of Bharti Airtel’s nationwide network services in India from a single central network operations centre (NOC) in India, as part of a new multi-year managed services deal. The arrangement covers centralised intent-based AI/ML-driven automation of …

Starlink now joins Airtel-backed Eutelsat OneWeb and Reliance Jio Satellite Communications as the third company to be granted a GMPCS license in India In sum – what you need to know: Starlink enters India – Elon Musk’s satellite venture has …

The global mobile core network market surged 32% in Q1 2025, driven by 5G SA rollouts, CNF upgrades, and strong growth in China – pushing Dell’Oro to raise its 2025 forecast. In sum – what to know: Core network growth …

Editor’s note: The telecommunications sector continues to evolve rapidly, driven by advancements in 5G, the emergence of 5G Advanced, the growing adoption of Open RAN and the integration of AI into network operations. Given the high volume of industry developments, …

The 5G core deployment will support Airtel in gradually transitioning to a commercially operational, full-scale 5G SA network Indian carrier Bharti Airtel and Ericsson have expanded their partnership with a new deal to deploy the latter’s 5G Core network solutions. …

Bharti Enterprises said it has already launched 635 satellites and is actively delivering services in various international markets Indian operator Bharti Airtel is set to launch satellite communications services in India, local press reported, citing Rajan Bharti Mittal, vice chairman …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 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 …

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 …

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 …

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, …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

  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% …

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 …

  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 …