Vodafone Idea making future-proof network investments: CTO

NEW DELHI: As India’s largest telecom operator Vodafone Idea is raising funds in expanding 4G capacity; the telco is trying to make sure that its investments towards building the network are future-proof.

Addresing ETTelecom’s India Mobile Conclave 2019, Vodafone IdeaNSE -2.50 % CTO Vishant Vora said, “We at VIL are making sure all our investments are future proof. Our intent is to deploy massive MIMO at big scale and make extensive use of HetNet.”

While talking about the challenges to building next-gen networks, Vora explained that the future networks will have to connect billions of devices at a fraction of a cost. Telcos will have to build networks that are real-time and do not face downtime.