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=== 7. Airtel === | === 7. Airtel === | ||
Airtel is one of the pioneers of the O-RAN Alliance. In fact, it holds a board seat in the movement. Its subsidiary, Bharti Airtel, was the first operator to deploy virtual 4G Open RAN trials across multiple cities in India<ref>https://www.fiercewireless.com/wireless/altiostar-deploys-open-vran-for-india-s-bharti-airtel</ref>. The deployment covered both small cells and macro sites. In April 2022, Bharti Airtel announced that it had achieved a trial speed of 1Gbps in its cloud-based open RAN architecture<ref>https://www.capacitymedia.com/article/29xf59u43i9srykhu94ao/news/airtel-achieves-1gbps-in-indian-5g-open-ran-cloud-trials</ref>. It has deployed 5G services in 8 cities and plans to cover 50 to 60 cities in India by March 2023. Its CTO, Randeep Sekhon, said, “Open RAN’s readiness to serve a larger scale will happen towards the end of 2023 because we want the total cost of ownership to come down.”<ref>https://disruptive.asia/airtel-says-its-open-ran-5g-strategy-is-on-schedule/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=airtel-says-its-open-ran-5g-strategy-is-on-schedule#:~:text=Bharti%20Airtel%20says%20that%20it,end%20of%20fiscal%2Dyear%202023.</ref> | |||
== Final Assessmen == | == Final Assessmen == | ||