Bharti Airtel refarms mid-band spectrum to support 5G growth

Cloud-native network infrastructure vendor Mavenir announced on Friday it is in the advanced commercial phase of an Open RAN network pilot deployment for Indian telco Vodafone Idea (Vi) that will support its planned 5G rollout.

The ability of 5G to enable wide-scale industrial applications has long been billed as a major differentiator for the standard compared to 4G.

Nokia has published the findings of its latest annual Indian market-focused Mobile Broadband Index (MBiT).