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India Business News: In September 2018, a meeting with PM Narendra Modi marked a turning point for Bharti Airtel, battling an existential crisis due to Reliance Jio. Modi'
Kangpokpi district headquarters experienced harrowing plights on Tuesday as Cyclone Remal swept through the town, causing flash floods due to the incessant rainfall, inundating vast parts of the town, mainly the lower portions.
Reliance Jio: As per latest telco spectrum data collated by Axis Capital, Airtel’s sub-GHz spectrum holdings in 800, 900 MHz bands are significantly lower at 176 MHz compared to Jio’s 445 MHz. Jio’s sub-GHz spectrum holdings are larger than Airtel and Vi as it is the only telco with pan-India 700 MHz airwaves apart from nationwide 800 MHz spectrum. Vodafone Idea's (Vi) sub-GHz spectrum holding (900 MHz band only) is at 141.2 MHz.
Traditionally, RAN - the basic building block of a telecom network - has proprietary technologies of global players such as Ericsson, Nokia, Huawei and ZTE etc. Open RAN gained some momentum over the last few years but barring one greenfield network globally, the uptake has been slow till now.
Bharti Airtel: "It takes time to wipe off history. Secondly, the world over, you don't see more than three-four operators. You can't put $50 billion and start from ground zero. What Reliance did was unprecedented. You have to give them credit. I would say a strong balance sheet, massive execution capabilities, risk-taking abilities, and finally regulations. All these things have to come together."