Jio joins ‘defer 5G sale’ chorus of Airtel, Voda Idea

NEW DELHI: Reliance Jio wants 5G auctions to be put off until telecom operators conduct trials and develop use cases for the airwaves priced “exorbitantly high”, a senior executive said, in a rare instance where the telco seems to have found common ground with rivals Bharti AirtelNSE -0.90 % and Vodafone Idea.

And, like Airtel, Jio also wants 4G airwaves to be auctioned as soon as possible, to keep pace with surging demand for data and ease network congestion.