It is fitting that Bosch, as a private 5G evangelist, should lead the charge in India with help from telco Bharti Airtel. The pair have just completed a pilot of what they claim to be India’s first 5G private network at the Bosch Automotive Electronics India facility in Bengaluru, using Airtel’s on-premise 5G Captive Private Network running trial 5G spectrum allocated by the country’s Department of Telecom (DoT). The pilot involved two industrial-grade use cases for quality improvement and operational efficiency at the Bosch factory, exploiting high speed broadband and ultra-reliable low latency communications to enable automated operations not possible over wireless links before 5G, according to the companies. Among the first demonstrable benefit was reduction in time taken to…