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Tech Mahindra opens lab in Bengaluru with Intel

Last Updated 25 February 2018, 18:19 IST

Tech Mahindra has set up a lab in Bengaluru in association with US chipmaker Intel, as part of its preparedness for 5G services expected to be rolled out by 2019.

The Department of Telecom (DoT) expects to finalise a road map for the services by June this year.

C P Gurnani, Chief Executive Officer and Managing Director of Tech Mahindra, said the company has already re-skilled about 30,000 of its employees in handling emerging technologies.

The remaining 75,000 employees will be re-skilled by the end of the currentcalendar year, he said.

"In our case, the key drivers (for future growth) are clearly 5G rollout, if it happens in 2019. We will see better capex spending in telecom," he said.

"We have set up a lab with Intel in Bengaluru. We have set up labs with other companies also. You don't learn swimming by practising on the beach. So we are working on software-defined networks. We are getting ready for the (5G) rollout," Gurnani said on the sidelines of the just-concluded World Congress of Information Technology 2018 here.

According to him, the company employees are in the process of acquiring required skill-sets and getting ready for pilot phases to be rolled out soon.

"A large delegation of Tech Mahindra is going to the World Mobile Congress in Barcelona (staring from February 26), and intense discussions have been planned around the 5G rollout," he said, without elaborating on the time-frame for pilot projects on the new mobile phone technology.

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(Published 25 February 2018, 16:18 IST)

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