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"I (read: enterprise) need to make sure that I interface with the device manufacturers, I need to know how to run a telco network, I need to provide security and then create an intercom system....
So I'm not really sure what they get out of investing all of it to run a private network," Ganesh Lakshminarayanan, chief executive (enterprise business), Bharti Airtel, said during a panel discussion at the ETTelecom 5G Congress 2023ET Bureau..
Top executives of India's leading telecom operators Reliance Jio and Bharti Airtel have stressed that the enterprises should stick to their core business and leave the work of deploying and managing a captive private wireless network to telcos...
"You cannot compare the Indian telco market to anybody else, because we offer the lowest cost of telco compared to anybody else," he said.. Prateek Pashine, chief enterprise head at Reliance Jio, backed the view, saying even globally, enterprises opt for public 5G infrastructure-and not a private one-to realise the benefits of 5G...
Enterprises can now get spectrum in three ways-ask telcos to set up a captive network, lease spectrum from a telco or take airwaves directly from the government and set it up themselves using system integrators, which typically are software companies...
