Our top priority is to help Indian telcos move from 4G to 5G: Ericsson’s head of strategy

Swedish telecom gear maker Ericsson said that it’s top priority in India is to help Indian telcos move from 4G to the 5G technology. In an interaction with ET’s Danish Khan, Preeti Nagarajan Head of Strategy, Business Area Networks at Ericsson said that Indian telcos are interested in making an investment towards bringing the 5G technology to India. Edited excerpts

How does Ericsson see India especially after the consolidation phase is over?

Our networks strategy is to make ensure that all the operators to move from 4G towards 5G. We want to help the operators enhance their capacity. India’s truly mobile native today and given the need and the population that we have, we need to find methods to be able to provide for that. Back in the day, every house needed to have electricity, now every person, everything needs to have connectivity.