Tag: Bharti Airtel

June 13, 2023

Four bits of interesting infrastructure news news from Africa, Asia and Australia to keep up with: Liquid Dataport and Angola Telecom have teamed up for some new terrestrial fiber in Africa. The two have put together a new route between […]

March 15, 2023

Indian operators Reliance Jio Infocomm and Bharti Airtel have already deployed 102,215 5G base stations across the country, local press reported, citing data from India’s Department of Telecommunications (DoT). According to the report, the state with the highest number of […]

March 7, 2023

India will achieve 100% coverage for 5G services by the end of December 2024, local press reported, citing the country’s communications minister, Ashwini Vaishnaw. The official said that telecom operators Bharti Airtel and Reliance Jio Infocomm aim to complete their […]

March 6, 2023

Indian operator Bharti Airtel has reached 10 million 5G subscribers across the country, the telco said in a release, with 1 million 5G subscribers in Mumbai alone. The Asian operator, which had initially launched 5G in October 2022, had reached […]

February 21, 2023

India’s communications minister, Ashwini Vaishnaw, said that at least nine countries have showed interest in a locally developed 4G and 5G technology stack, making India a potential telecom technology exporter. During The Economic Times Global Business Summit (GBS) 2023, the […]

February 14, 2023

India’s Department of Telecommunications (DoT) is currently working on freeing up additional frequencies to support 5G services, local newspaper The Economic Times reported. The report noted that the Indian government could potentially auction these new 5G frequencies in the next […]

February 9, 2023

Indian operator Bharti Airtel aims to provide 5G services in 300 cities across the country by March 2024, compared to the current 70, local press reported, citing the company’s CEO Gopal Vittal. “We are already seeing traffic offloads happening from […]

February 8, 2023

A total of five Indian firms have applied to obtain licenses in order to provide private networks in the country, local press reported, citing sources at the Department of Telecommunications (DoT). According to the report, the five company have applied […]

February 6, 2023

Indian carrier Bharti Airtel has increased its direct stake in compatriot company Indus Towers by acquiring 23.01% of shares held by its wholly-owned subsidiary, Nettle Infrastructure. Folowing this transaction, Bharti Airtel now holds 47.95% stake in Indus Towers. The telecom […]

January 10, 2023

India’s Department of Telecommunications (DoT) is keeping an eye out for Vodafone Idea’s 5G roll out plans to make sure the company meets its deployment obligations, The Economic Times reported. The telco is mandated to meet the minimum roll out […]

December 23, 2022

Happy Holidays to all, time to escape early if you haven’t already folks! Here’s some quick catchup first of a few items beforehand: Prime Data Centers has landed a significant pre-lease out in the Los Angeles market. An unnamed ‘publicly […]

December 6, 2022

Even as Indian telco Bharti Airtel continues its aggressive 5G rollout across the country, the company is looking for other ways to expand its reach with digital transformation services for Indian consumers and enterprises. To that end, Airtel and Meta […]

November 29, 2022

Indian telco Bharti Airtel is already offering 5G services in 12 cities across the country, according to local press reports. Last month, Bharti Airtel launched 5G services in Delhi, Mumbai, Chennai, Bengaluru, Hyderabad, Siliguri, Nagpur and Varanasi. The offering is […]

November 22, 2022

Indian carrier Vodafone Idea is open to carrying out additional pilots of Open-RAN (O-RAN), and would potentially consider the deployment of O-RAN networks once the technology is mature enough, The Economic Times reported, citing a company executive. “I can say […]

November 10, 2022

India’s Department of Telecommunications (DoT) is looking to obtain comments from the sector’s regulator to analyze the possibility to opening up spectrum in the 95 GHz – 3 THz frequency range for free allocation to develop future 6G technologies and […]

November 4, 2022

Indian telecom operator Bharti Airtel is currently testing 5G Standalone (SA) technology with the aim of using it to cover certain uses cases for enterprises, local press reported. “While these use cases are very niche today, we are already doing […]

November 2, 2022

Indian operator Bharti Airtel announced that it has already reached 1 million unique 5G subscribers in less than 30 days since it had commercially launched this technology in certain areas of the country. Last month, Airtel announced the launch of […]

October 31, 2022

Indian carrier Bharti Airtel has inked a commercial contract with Austin-based company Aviat Networks under which the latter will supply its wireless multiband radios. As part of the contract, Airtel will deploy Aviat’s all-outdoor WTM 4800 E-Band and Multi-Band solutions […]

October 11, 2022

Indian telco Bharti Airtel has selected Israeli wireless solutions firm Ceragon Networks for the provision of wireless multiband radio solutions, the latter said in a release. Ceragon said that its IP-50E and multi-band vendor agnostic technology will provide capacity enhancement […]

April 28, 2020

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 be completed by 2022, […]