Indian mega-corp Tata unveils surprise 5G networking business

Indian mega-conglomerate the Tata Group has revealed it’s created a 5G networking kit business. The company on Monday announced it has built an “O-RAN-based Radio & NSA/SA Core and has integrated a totally indigenous telecom stack”. Indian mobile carrier Airtel, which boasts over 340 million subscribers, will make Tata’s …

[IGotOut]

Well as Modi...

... has promised to Make India Great Again, its hardly surprising the first sale was to India.

Rest of the world may be a harder nut to crack, but fair play to them. If it was the UK, we'd have flogged it off by now.

[Anonymous Coward]

Re: Well as Modi...

If their UK prices are lime what a phone SIM cost me in India a couple of years back, they'll be on a winner. I was getting a gig and a half a day and unlimited calls and texts for about 4 quid for 30 days. Eat my shorts Vodafone

[Nifty]

Re: Well as Modi...

India's planning to export its wage levels to the UK next.

[First Light]

Re: Well as Modi...

Current Airtel plan: 698 rupees for 84 days, 2 gigs a day. That's £7! Then add 50 gigs extra for the life of the plan for £3.

[Pascal Monett]

So, 5G stacks are like buses

You wait years for a new one to arrive, and suddenly 3 show up at the same time.

A "surprise 5G networking business". I think that's quite a feat of secrecy. An entire business line ready to go and nobody heard about it before now ?

Impressive.

[Anonymous Coward]

Re: So, 5G stacks are like buses

Not that much of a surprise given that TATA's consultancy and outsourcing business TCS is embedded throughout Ericsson and Nokia.

[pdebarra]

Re: So, 5G stacks are like buses

Ah. This must be why Nokia and Ericsson phones are the hottest property in - oh, wait.