Six states and Union Territories out of the 34 in the country account for over 55 per cent of the total 5G Base Transceiver Station (BTS) towers which have been installed by Reliance Jio and Bharti Airtel, indicating the key markets where consumers are expected to upgrade to the new service.
The states are Maharashtra (including Mumbai), Uttar Pradesh (east and west), Tamil Nadu, Gujarat, Karnataka and Delhi. If West Bengal were added, the figure would go up well over 62 per cent.
The data is based on weekly submissions by the two telcos to the Department of Telecommunications. This submission was on 19 March.
In simple terms, a BTS connects mobile devices to the network and sends and receives radio signals to the phone converting them into digital signals.
There is usually more than one BTS on a tower and that is based on the number of spectrum bands which a telco wants to roll out. A ball park figure is that one BTS is required for each spectrum band.
This story is from the March 30, 2023 edition of Business Standard.
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