Top Indian telcos Jio, Airtel use GIS for 5G FWA, FTTH expansion: Esri’s Agendra Kumar

NEW DELHI: India’s top telecom carriers have adopted a geographical information system (GIS)-driven strategy to pick locations for seamlessly densifying their fifth-generation (5G)-led networks and expand fixed wireless access (FWA) services, and to enhance user experience, according to a senior executive of Esri India.

‘GIS is very important and the two largest operators, namely Reliance Jio and Bharti Airtel, use our technology. Once they sign up a customer, they geocode their address, to pinpoint the exact location. GIS is not only being used for planning cellular services, but also for AirFiber and fibre-to-the-home (FTTH) services,’ Agendra Kumar, MD, Esri India, told ETTelecom.