Nokia, Airtel join hands on 5G, IoT apps

Nokia and Airtel will build on 4G in terms of power, operations and cost effectiveness with the highest quality and reliability. “The 5G and IoT applications have tremendous potential to transform lives and we are pleased to partner with Nokia to enable these future technologies for our customers,” Abhay Savargaonkar, Director-Network Services (India and South Asia), Bharti Airtel, said. The 5G technology promises to enable dramatic improvements in peak data speeds, network latency and agility, as well as the ability to enable new capabilities such as network slicing.  This will allow operators to support a growing number of customers.