Airtel, Tatas join forces to counter Jio’s made-in-India 5G technology

NEW DELHI: Bharti Airtel has entered into a strategic partnership with Tata Group to deploy Open-RAN-based 5G radio and core solutions, which the latter has developed locally.

The move will allow the telco to reduce the cost of 5G deployment as it uses the OpenRAN technology and is developed indigenously, analysts said.

The Sunil Mittal-led telco said that it will pilot and deploy this indigenous solution developed as part of its 5G rollout plans in India and start the pilot in January 2022.