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#News(IoTStack) [ via IoTForIndiaGroup ]
New Delhi: Bharti Airtel is planning to soon launch its own narrowband Internet of Things (NB-IoT) network in the country, as it strives for a bigger push to its IoT play and take on Reliance Jio Infocomm, which already has a similar network.
“We have been doing a lot of proof of concepts, and are now getting ready for NB-IoT. The network’s team has been focusing on this quite a lot, and are working together with us towards getting ready for our IoT play,” Airtel’s global chief information officer, Harmeen Mehta, told ET.
IoT will be a big focus area for the Sunil Mittal-led telco in the next 18-24 months and Airtel has already started in-house development of own platform and industry-specific solutions through its Xlabs, which largely focuses on IoT, along with artificial intelligence and Big Data analytics.
The company, which has hired a new head of engineering for IoT, is currently building plug-and-play platforms that can be used by its enterprise customers. It is looking for startups to develop devices and solutions using its platform.
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