Indian Operators Making AI-Powered Filters to Take Out Spam

On 25th September, 2024 Airtel announced AI powered solution to curb spam calls and texts over its 4G network. Gopal Vittal, Managing Director and Chief Executive Officer, Bharti Airtel explained in the press conference that 400 data scientists of Airtel worked for last 12 months to develop this two-layered shield. This network driven, AI powered solution uses a proprietary algorithm to identify and classify spam calls and texts very fast - this shield processes 1.5 billion messages and 2.5 billion calls in 2 milliseconds. 

5G - How to Monetize?

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Every time, since the beginning of wireless communications and faster internet India stood as a back bencher compared to global standards - either India joined late or could not deliver what was promised. For eg, 3G/HSPA/HSPA+ was first launched in 2001 in Japan by Docomo and Airtel came with 3G in 2011, which took nearly 1.5 year to go mainstream. And it was never affordable at all.

Cut to 2016, country's richest man Mukesh Ambani backed Reliance Industries unleashed Jio to Indians with 4G-LTE. Wireless data became affordable, cluttered out non-serious players from the market and incumbents responded to Jio's move. 

Brookfield backed Altius Becomes Largest Tower Company in India

Canada based Brookfield-lead consortium takes control of ATC India via Data Infrastructure Trust (DIT), an Infrastructure Investment Trust backed by Canada's Brookfield Asset Management alongwith other investors including British Columbia Investment Management Corp (BCI) and GIC Pvt. Ltd (Singapore) for an enterprise value of Rs 18,200 crore ($2.2 billion). It marks Boston based American Tower Corp's exit from India. 

With this buyout Brookfield would get approx. 76,000 towers from ATC India and its tower portfolio goes to 2,57,000 – making it largest tower company of India (also globally, outside China). Just positioned from 1st to 2nd, Bharti Airtel backed Indus Towers have 2,25,910 towers as of June 2024. 

BSNL 4G Goes Live Across Kolkata

State owned telecom service provider Bharat Sanchar Nigam Ltd (BSNL) is now busy in roll out of 4G networks across the country. In Kolkata circle, BSNL starts rolling out 4G network since May 2024. 

However me, living in suburbs of Kolkata did not find BSNL 4G signal in May, June, July, August. However since the begining of September 2024 I am getting BSNL 4G signals on my mobile phones. 

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