Context: Google will invest up to $1 billion in Indian telecom giant Bharti Airtel, including $700 million for a 1.28% equity stake in the telecom operator.
Key takeaways
Google also has 7.73% stake in Jio Platforms since 2020.
Bharti and Google will work together to build on Bharti’s extensive offerings via innovative affordability programmes.
They would continue to explore building on their existing partnerships to potentially co-create India-specific, network domain use cases for 5G and other standards.
What is 5G?
5G is the fifth generation cellular technology that apart from increasing the downloading and uploading speeds (speed of 1 Gbps) over the mobile network, also reduces the latency i.e. the time taken by a network to respond.
It also increases energy efficiency and offers more stable network connections.
5G is also designed to deliver signals more reliably than earlier cellular networks
5G will have a wider area in the frequency spectrum (range of frequencies) that will ensure no network congestion.
In addition, it will also ensure connectivity to a full circle i.e. everything is connected to every other thing.
5G will help facilitate the ecosystem for the Internet of Things (IoT) and to incorporate Artificial Intelligence (AI) in our daily lives and
To get the benefits of 5G, users will have to buy new phones, while carriers will need to install new transmission equipment to offer the faster service.
