Airtel gears up for nation wide 5G roll out this month

Bharathi Airtel on Wednesday signed agreements with global telecom equipment images Ericsson,Nokia and Samsung to comments the deployment of 5G services across the country this month. The company is likely to start with Delhi, Hyderabad, Bengaluru, and Pune. The launch could go inside with the independence day . The announcement came just a couple of days after the much awaited 5G auction ended with the government fixing more than 1.5 trillion. Some of the important Bharati's strategy are company ropes in three telecom gear makers to set up 5G networks, Samsung for the first time looks beyond partner jio and signs with bharati for two circles, Ericsson and Nokia retain their circles where they had deployed 4G too, analysts estimate the 5G roll out could cost about 10 billion,Govt has promised to allocate spectrum by August 10. This is the first time that Samsung which has worked with only Reliance Jio so far to build 4G networks , has sorted to go beyond it's partner and work with other players. Sources set the South Korean telecom giant had won the Punjab and Kolkata circles, where the 4G network was built by Chinese company ZTE. Under the existing policy, the government has not permitted Chinese telecom gear makers to participate in the 5G roll out. Nokia z award of the contract accounted for a 45% share of the Airtel network. Ericsson an old partner of the Airtel has won 11 circles retaining all of these were it had deployed 4G. 20 include Karnataka which was with Huawei 4G but was partly given to Ericsson later.