Airtel 5g broadband

Bharti Airtel, which has been expressing concern over the higher cost of 5G wireless broadband or fixed wireless access (FWA) equipment, is expected to benefit with Jio ramping up to launch Jio AirFiber, its FWA device for home broadband, according to analysts. The reason cited by analysts for Airtel benefiting from Jio’s fast approach towards FWA is the possible economies of scale, which will reduce the price of FWA equipment. Anil Agarwal’s Vedanta seeks cash with $500 million bond maturing While Airtel has been doing several experiments on FWA, Airtel CEO Gopal Vittal said the home broadband business will be driven by FTTH and FWA is still not attractive on both economics and reliability. In the January-March quarter post-earnings analyst call, Vittal reiterated that cost of FWA router at about $180, is higher than the $100-120 cost per connected home using fibre. According to analysts, wireless networks such as FWA are much cheaper to operate and maintain than wired networks (FTTH), which are prone to breakage due to digging and construction activities. “Jio is taking the next step in homes (Fibre+FWA+payTV) through the launch of disruptive “backup” fibre plans, LCO (local cable operators) partnerships, FWA launch. Backup plans are intended to help trojan entries into peer customers. LCO partnerships and FWA launches can expand coverage and reach,” JP Morgan said.

By Jatin Grover After launching 5G services in eight cities, Bharti Airtel is now looking at tapping the opportunity available in the wireless broadband space through this technology.According to a senior company official, Airtel will also provide 5G-enabled wireless access to rural areas along with the traditional way of providing services through fibre. OpenAI CEO says “Indians totally hopeless” comment taken out of context “Today, if you are in a remote area, the only access you have is to use a dongle with 4G. We will make a significant amount of shift in making 5G the last-mile access for connectivity in remote branches,” the official added. Also Read: In the home broadband space, Rival Reliance Jio has also indicated repeating a 4G-like success with wireless 5G, especially in the home broadband space. The company has even launched Jio Air Fiber, a Wi-Fi device that will give fibre-like speed to consumers using the 5G network. “As the uptake of fixed wireline connections and Wi-Fi hotspots has been slow in India, reliance on 5G-enabled fixed wireless access (FWA) will have significant advantages such as faster time to market, lower cost, no vendor lock-ins, over the air upgrades, in alignment with global standards and easy provisioning with existing infrastructure,” KPMG said in its recent report. According to the report, with FWA, the communication service providers will have an extended range of network on the mmWave or 26 GHz spectrum band to provide connectivity i...