
India Wireless Infrastructure Report
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This is our third edition of this report that focuses on the 5G developments in India, including traditional 4G and 5G RAN and open vRAN, geopolitical trends, ecosystem, and technology. This report also includes cellular subscribers’ data by service provider, 4G and 5G BTS units and sales, a 5-year forecast for eNBs, gNBs, vCUs, vDUs, RUs, and RAN vendor market shares and analysis.
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17 Pages
- KEY TAKEAWAYS
- INDIA’S RAN MARKET IS BOUNCING BACK AND SLOWLY BUT SURELY LEANING TOWARDS DOMESTIC
- VENDORS
- 4G WAS BIGGER THAN 5G
- INDIA’S CELLULAR SUBSCRIBER FOOTPRINT IS HARDLY BUDGING
- AS RIGHTLY ANTICIPATED, THE INDIAN RAN MARKET SUNK IN 2024
- 1H25 saw a pickup, mainly driven by the completion of BSNL’s 4G LTE rollout…
- …and Vi’s renaissance
- The vendor leaderboard remains unchanged; Ericsson remains buckled up in the driver’s seat but both
- Nokia and Tejas gain share
- Ericsson and Nokia are benefiting from Airtel’s contracts renewal, which were initially awarded in 2022
- But Jio will not renew and is instead looking at cutting its dependency on Ericsson and Nokia, at least for 5G
- indoor and outdoor small cells
- Meanwhile, Jio’s greenfield single LTE vendor network has a competitive advantage to be the nation’s first
- 5G SA
- 2025 IS LOOKING UP, THE CALM BEFORE THE NEXT STORM…
- …TRIGGERED BY AT LEAST $2B SECOND ROUND 5G UPGRADE
- Open RAN is the next big thing in India but be patient!
- India embraces open RAN and boasts international ambitions…
- …but the U.S. market opportunity is evaporating, thanks to Trump 2.0!
- And lastly, India has big 6G objectives
- BOTTOM LINE: TRUMP 2.0 MAY KEEP INDIAN VENDORS AT HOME FOR A WHILE AND THAT IS COMPLICATED
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