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Bharti Airtel plans to roll out the fifth generation (5G) telecom services this month and targets to cover all towns and key rural areas of the country by March 2024, Managing Director and Chief Executive Officer of Bharti Airtel Gopal Vittal said on Tuesday.
As per PTI report, Addressing the company’s earnings call, Vittal said, “We intend to launch 5G starting August and extending to a Pan India roll out very soon. By March 2024 we believe we will be able to cover every town and key rural area as well with 5G. In fact, detailed network rollout plans for 5000 towns in India are completely in place. This will be one of the biggest rollouts in our history.”
He said every network domain is completely 5G ready. “Our transport layer has been built over the years. With the combination of fiber to the tower, synergies from fiber to the home and the availability of E-band micro wave spectrum, every site we roll out will be backhaul ready to provide 5G experience in line with what is needed to deliver a world-class experience. Our multi-terabit MPLS and internet backbone is fully ready to take on the 5G led data growth. Even on the cloud network side, we have best-of-breed partners for the cloud platform that will help us in the deployment of our network in a smooth manner,” he said.
