Airtel 5G: Sunil Mittal forges strategic partnership with SK Telecom

Airtel 5G – A new wave for Indian telecom market – as, Bharti Airtel & South Korean company SK Telecom have forges strategic partnership to build the most advanced telecom network in India.

Both the companies will collaborate to evolve standards for 5G, Network Functions Virtualization (NFV), Software-defined Networking & Internet of Things (IoT).

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Airtel 5G & SK Telecom

Mr. Sunil Bharti Mittal, the Bharti Airtel chairman, state that the partnership will work across several areas including developing bespoke software to dramatically improve network experience, leveraging advanced digital tools including machine learning, big data and building customised tools to improve network planning based on every customer’s device experience which give them best Airtel 5G network.

He further said:

Airtel and SK Telecom will jointly work towards building an enabling ecosystem for the introduction of these technologies in the Indian context.

The partnership, according to Mr. Mittal, will bring a dramatically improved experience to Airtel customers in India by leveraging the expertise of a company that has built one of the best mobile broadband networks in the world.

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Park Jung-ho, President and CEO of SK Telecom, said

SK Telecom will work closely with Bharti to achieve new network innovations so as to deliver a greater value to Bharti’s customers.

SK Telecom is the South Korea’s largest telecommunications company with more than 29 million mobile subscribers, which accounts for around 50% of the total market.

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Megha Jain

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