Higher component costs are threatening to slow the rapid expansion of India’s entry-level 5G smartphone market, raising concerns about affordability and subscriber growth, industry executives and analysts said, according to a report by The Economic Times dated November 25, 2025. Also Read: Tariff Hike 2025: BSNL Shortens Validity of Its … Read More
T-Mobile US has said its recent nationwide deployment of 5G Advanced could offer important learnings for Indian telecom operators as they look to enhance 5G capabilities and monetisation. The company also noted that non-terrestrial networks (NTN) will remain complementary to terrestrial mobile infrastructure, especially in markets with challenging geographies. Also … Read More
India’s robust 5G networks, combined with capabilities in the AI and data center sectors, could drive local innovations and create business opportunities, according to Ericsson’s CTO. “India has probably the best opportunity in the world because it has a history of being the leader in IT and services on data … Read More
5G adoption in India is growing rapidly. The expansion of 5G networks, availability of affordable 5G FWA customer premises equipment (CPE) and high data consumption from FWA users is fueling the data traffic growth in India, according Ericsson’s Mobility Report (EMR) 2025. The report noted that 5G FWA allows for … Read More
Bharti Airtel, the second-largest telecom operator in India, will be taking a slow approach towards 5G SA (standalone architecture). The company’s staggered approach will be there because it doesn’t see an immediate need to invest in the SA, said S&P Global Ratings. Much recently, the research agency had upgraded its … Read More
Bharti Airtel’s Vice Chairman and Managing Director, Gopal Vittal, has shared his views on the 5G hype. According to him, 5G has not lived up to expectations or delivered the transformative impact it was marketed to achieve. The technology has neither disrupted business models nor boosted revenues—outcomes that telecom operators … Read More
India now has several hundred million 5G users, all thanks to the rapid expansion of the technology by Bharti Airtel and Reliance Jio. Now even Vodafone Idea (Vi) has joined the league and is looking to deploy 5G in all parts of its 17 priority circles. According to the latest … Read More
Bharti Airtel has taken a long approach to upgrade to the 5G SA (standalone) for its users. Firstly, the company will bring 5G SA for the FWA (fixed wireless access) users. This is because Airtel believes that 5G SA would have been an overkill to begin with as 5G NSA, … Read More
Bharti Airtel, India’s second-largest telecom operator, has confirmed the launch of dual-5G mode. This mode has both 5G NSA (non-standlone) and 5G SA (standalone). The company has, in fact, rolled it out in a total of 13 circles. Airtel had already said that it is planning to launch 5G SA … Read More
The GSM Association (GSMA) has urged India to rationalise telecom sector taxes and levies, arguing that every dollar spent on taxation is a dollar diverted from network investments that could benefit consumers. GSMA Director General Vivek Badrinath said operators in India have demonstrated a strong industrial approach by continuing to … Read More
India added over 4,100 new 5G base stations (BTS) in October 2025 — fewer than the more than 6,400 BTS rolled out in September 2025. This brings the total BTS count to over 508,000 nationwide. Meanwhile, the Department of Telecommunications (DoT) is using social media to highlight how BSNL’s Swadeshi … Read More
Jio Platforms Ltd (JPL), India’s largest telecom company, has significantly transformed its operations, network management, and customer experience through the strategic adoption of TM Forum’s Open Digital Architecture (ODA) and more than 50 Open APIs. The initiative has transformed operations, network management, and customer experiences to increase network reliability, reduce … Read More
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