Leading telecom firm Bharti Airtel on Monday announced a strategic partnership with the steel-to-software conglomerate Tata group for 5G network solutions. Based on open radio access network (ORAN) technology, the plan is to roll out the solution initially for India and subsequently for exports.
The move is being seen as far more ambitious than Airtel’s original plan of collaborating with hardware and software players to build a 5G network at the lowest price. As a senior executive said, the original plan was not “to become an R&D provider for the world”.
With the latest announcement, the Sunil Mittal-led firm is expected to