Jio aims to achieve pan-India coverage for AirFiber in the first half of 2024. Rival Bharti Airtel, too, plans to expand its wireless high-speed broadband services beyond 25 cities
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The European vendors will face competition from Mavenir of the US and South Korea’s Samsung, which have been running pilot projects nascent technologies.
The government-owned telco had partnered with mobile payment firm AdPay to launch India’s first virtual telco AeroVoyce, and had then, been expecting an annual revenue of Rs 500 crore from the MVNO business. Today, the industry association alleges that BSNL has not lived up to the promises made for the MVNO business.
Analysts also believe that Vodafone Idea may benefit from being a late entrant in the 5G market, learning from its bigger rivals that have already rolled out pan-India 5G networks