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Reliance Jio, Indias telecom market leader, may launch its fixed wireless access (FWA) device offering Jio AirFiber - for the consumer market in the festive quarter at an up to 20% discount from the current options in the market, industry executives and analysts said...
Jios FWA device will use carrier aggregation technology which creates a data pathway using different 5G airwaves - in this case 700 MHz, 3300 MHz, and 26GHz - acquired by telco in last years auction...
Earlier this month, rival Bharti Airtel launched its FWA offering Xstream AirFiber in two cities Mumbai and Delhi and priced the device at Rs 2500..
It will basically look to attack the six-month commitment that the current offering comes with, an analyst with a leading brokerage said.. Earlier this month, Jio launched its FWA device for enterprise connectivity using the 26 GHz frequency band it acquired in the July 2022 5G spectrum auction...
In the most recent earnings call, RIL president Kiran Thomas said that the FWA offering is expected to significantly add to the telcos home broadband business and help ramp up the number of connected premises to 100 million...
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