India : Latest Updates and Key Insights

Where is 5G available in India? Do existing smartphone support 5G?

News
November 27, 2022
Hema Kadia

Out of India's three biggest telecom companies, only two offer 5G services to their customers. These are Jio and Airtel. While Jios'True 5G network is a standalone (SA), Airtel uses a non-standalone (NSA) that leverages the current 4G infrastructure.

Enterprises applied for the direct allocation of private 5G spectrum in India

News
November 19, 2022
Hema Kadia

More than 20 enterprises have applied for the direct allocation of the 5G spectrum in India to set up a private wireless network,

Locally designed & developed 5G gear to be available next year in India

News
November 11, 2022
Hema Kadia

The Indian government believes that locally designed and developed 5G gear, including core and radio network components, could be commercially available by March 2023.

Smartphones above Rs 10000 must switch to 5G technology in India

News
November 8, 2022
Hema Kadia

Department of Telecommunications (DoT) and the Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology (MeitY) representatives met with mobile operators and smartphone manufacturers and gave them a deadline of three months to switch over to 5G services with 5G smartphones.

Airtel Looks at 5G as Short Term Opportunity to Win Quality Customers

News
November 7, 2022
Hema Kadia

The scaling of 5G networks to cover most of the country would take years. However, this doesn’t stop Airtel from using 5G and marketing it to win some quality customers in the short term.

Nokia and Nedaa to explore 5G network slicing for smart city and public safety use

Usecase
November 3, 2022
Hema Kadia

Nokia to support Nedaa on its journey to delivering next-generation 5G network capabilities by upgrading its networks and developing innovative use cases. Nedaa is targeting segment-oriented solutions by introducing network slicing to improve public safety and smart city services for concerned organizations and citizens, as well as lay the foundations for more advanced services such as metaverse.

Jio and Airtel 5G: DoT and TRAI does not have a problem with Network Slicing

News
October 31, 2022
Hema Kadia

The Department of Telecommunications (DoT and Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (TRAI) are comfortable with network slicing. Hence, Airtel and Jio, who have already rolled out 5G networks, will be able to offer 5G network slicing services in the foreseeable future.

OnePlus 10 Pro, OnePlus 10T, and OnePlus 10R Smartphones upgraded to support Jio 5G

News
October 25, 2022
Hema Kadia

In order to accommodate Jio 5G, OnePlus has begun pushing out a software upgrade for its OnePlus 10-series handsets. The updates are country-specific to India and are available for the OnePlus 10 Pro, OnePlus 10T, and OnePlus 10R. Only certain

Jio and Airtel expanding 5G to New Cities

News
October 25, 2022
Hema Kadia

Reliance Jio recently announced that it would send out invites to Chennai users to experience 5G. Earlier, Jio had announced the 5G services for users in four cities – Delhi, Mumbai, Kolkata, and Varanasi.

Jio’s 5G network in delhi provides 600 mbps median download speed | Ookla

News
October 21, 2022
Hema Kadia

As per Ookla, a global leader in network intelligence, Jio in Delhi was able to deliver a median download speed of 598.58 Mbps speed, which is almost 600 Mbps.

Indian Aviation Regulatory Body raises concern with 5G in C-Band

News
September 27, 2022
Hema Kadia

While India's telecom department is all set for 5G rollout, the country's aviation security regulator, the Directorate General of Civil Aviation (DGCA), has raised concerns over the apparent interference of 5G C-Band spectrum with radio altimeters in airplanes.

Airtel’s 5G and Edge compute to drive enterprise transformation

News
September 16, 2022
Hema Kadia

Airtel platform backed by IBM Cloud Satellite will power Maruti Suzuki’s initiatives to streamline plant productivity and quality operations

India

Where is 5G available in India? Do existing smartphone support 5G?

Enterprises applied for the direct allocation of private 5G spectrum in India

Locally designed & developed 5G gear to be available next year in India

Smartphones above Rs 10000 must switch to 5G technology in India

Airtel Looks at 5G as Short Term Opportunity to Win Quality Customers

Nokia and Nedaa to explore 5G network slicing for smart city and public safety use

Jio and Airtel 5G: DoT and TRAI does not have a problem with Network Slicing

OnePlus 10 Pro, OnePlus 10T, and OnePlus 10R Smartphones upgraded to support Jio 5G

Jio and Airtel expanding 5G to New Cities

Jio’s 5G network in delhi provides 600 mbps median download speed | Ookla

Indian Aviation Regulatory Body raises concern with 5G in C-Band

Airtel’s 5G and Edge compute to drive enterprise transformation

Partner Hubs

Partner Events

Subscribe to our newsletter

Intelligence

Insights

Resources

Partner Hubs

COMPANY

CONNECT

Making a private network or AI call?