Reliance Jio is on the verge of launching India’s first full commercial dynamic 5G network slicing capability after successful validation with Chinese smartphone maker OnePlus. This sets the stage for granular 5G network slicing at the device level, taking advantage of capabilities just coming on stream with the latest 3GPP Release 18 under the banner of 5G Advanced. The validation trial involved connection of Jio’s 5G Standalone (SA) network with the handset’s SoC, allowing independent virtual networks to coexist and serve different applications varying in their demand for speed, network capacity, security and reliability. This showed that the applications could access dedicated slices of the network simultaneously without interfering with each other. Reliance Jio said it was now ready for…