Airtel and Qualcomm will collaborate to enable a wide array of use cases, including 5G Fixed Wireless Access (FWA), which is designed to deliver broadband connectivity at Gigabit speeds to homes and businesses

TSDSI, which develops standards for telecom and ICT products and services in India, has developed the country's own 5G technology standard - 5Gi. But concerns around it are growing louder by the day

The proposed transaction is part of Airtel's strategy to align the shareholding of its customer facing products, services and businesses under the same holding group.

Airtel and Jio users can cover their prepaid and postpaid physical SIM cards into eSIMs. Vi has this service available for postpaid users.

The Rs 819.24-crore issue of the state-owned RailTel Corporation of India is a complete offer for sale of 8,71,53,369 equity shares by the Government of India

Given that the government has not included this band in the upcoming auctions, the 5G services are likely to be further delayed in the country

According to Ookla, Vi delivered the highest upload and download speeds in the final quarter of 2020. Vi has also been to give the fastest 4G network in 16 Indian states.

This round of auction will be held for 2,251.25 Megahertz (MHz) in seven frequency bands -- 700 Mhz, 800 Mhz, 900 Mhz, 1800 Mhz 2100 Mhz, 2300 Mhz and 2500 Mhz -- at a cumulative base price of Rs 3.92 lakh crore

The panel, headed by Congress MP Shashi Tharoor, concluded that sufficient preparatory work has not been undertaken for the launching of 5G services in India.

The committee asked why spectrum for 5G trial has not been allowed when the DoT had mentioned that there are no major issues regarding the trials

San Jose, California-based PayPal will instead focus on its cross-border payments business, which means global customers will still be able to pay Indian merchants using the service

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Airtel's fundraising plan comes when the government has set the ball rolling for the spectrum auction, in which radio waves valued at Rs 3.92 lakh crore will be put on the block

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Gopal Vittal said the telco will eventually refarm its mid-band spectrum to deliver 5G since it has adequate amount of spectrum available in that range.

Airtel on Thursday announced that it has become the country's first telco to successfully demonstrate and orchestrate live 5G service over a commercial network in Hyderabad city.

It said the quantum of spectrum allocation will determine the quality of 5G offerings as scarcity of airwaves increases costs and makes operations inefficient.

The ongoing tussle between DoT, and DoS, ISRO and defence ministry has already delayed the launch of 5G in the country. Globally, radiowaves across sub-1 GHz (600 MHz, 700 MHz), mid-band (3.5 GHz), and millimeter-band (26, 28 GHz) are being used to deliver 5G services

Following a mock auction on February 26, the telecom department will start the auction from March 1, 2021. Successful bidders will have to pay the bid amount within 10 days of the issue of demand note

It's been a bloodbath in the Indian telecommunications sector but Sunil Bharti Mittal, Founder and Chairman, Bharti Enterprises, put up a formidable fight