Despite multiple delays to launch 4G services, Bharat Sanchar Nigam Ltd (BSNL) - the state owned telecommunications service provider is seemed to be on the track to roll out the much awaited 4G-LTE services across the circles very soon.
As per the deal signed in August 2023, Tejas Networks-led consortium would be delivering 4G sites to BSNL worth Rs 7492 crore. Initially there was extensive trials run across the circles. On May 5, 2025 Tata backed telecom gear firm Tejas Networks announced that the company shipped more than 100,000 sites for BSNL's 4G/5G-ready network. This is one of the largest single-vendor RAN networks in the world ever delivered in record time.
On May 12, DoT announced that BSNL 4G-LTE deployment is at 83.99% ready, i.e. approx. 84,000 4G sites have been installed out of target of 1 lakh of indigenously developed 4G sites. BSNL had set a target to roll out 4G services across 22 circles by mid 2025.
Telecom Minister Jyotiraditya Scindia informed that after the stabilization of 4G-LTE network and achieving a proper QoS, BSNL will start 5G roll out commercially. Already BSNL is running 5G trials on multiple cities and multiple locations.
In another development, Uttar Pradesh Metro Rail Corporation Ltd. (UPMRC) and Bharat Sanchar Nigam Limited (BSNL) last week signed a MoU in New Delhi to enhance mobile connectivity for metro commuters while travelling through underground metro stations and tunnels. UPMRC's In-Building Solution (IBS) infrastructure, available at underground metro stations and along tunnel corridors in the Lucknow, Kanpur and Agra Metro, as well as in all upcoming projects, will now be utilized by BSNL.
In the quarter ended in March '25, Tejas Networks had posted a multifold jump in consolidated profit to Rs 446.53 crore and more than threefold jump in revenue from operations to Rs 8,923 crore. Tejas is also working with Vi to supply backhaul gears and phase I of supply have been completed.
During Q1 2025 Tejas Networks signed a strategic technology collaboration agreement with NEC Corporation (Japan) for the development of advanced wireless technologies, radio access network (RAN) technologies, and also the Core and EPC (engineering procurement and construction) and also for joint go-to-market strategy.
Jio is also planning to switch to indigenous gears for its 5G network, cutting down dependence on global vendors, Ericsson and Nokia. As per ETTelecom, Reliance Strategic Business Ventures Ltd (RSBVL), a wholly-owned RIL arm, and Sanmina Corp, a leading integrated manufacturing solutions company, had inked a JV agreement nearly 3 years back, to create an electronics manufacturing hub in India. Probably this JV, and RIL backed Radisys will work together in Chennai to manufacture 5G small cells.
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