Telcos combine to push Make in India Indian telcos Bharti Airtel,Tata and Reliance Jio have joined forces to conduct 5G trials with their own equipment. This can be seen as a boost for the country’s Make in India campaign designed to promote indigenous technologies and vendors wherever possible. Bharti Airtel Chairman Sunil Mittal said its 5G trials with Tata, which is building the 5G stack, should start in April or May 2022, well ahead of commercial network deployment. IBM and Airspan plan 5G Open RAN testbed in Europe IBM Global Business Services has announced joint plans with RAN vendor Airspan to launch a 5G-enabled Open RAN testbed encompassing two of its centers in France and Germany. Airspan is providing its AirVelocity…