Tech Mahindra says can build and run full-fledged 4G, 5G networks

New Delhi: IT services provider Tech Mahindra has the capability to build and run an entire 4G or 5G network in India, and its partnership with Japanese telco Rakuten Mobile will help it get more meaningful business in India’s telecom industry, a senior executive said.
“We bring to the table our ability to design, to plan, to integrate and deploy and then to manage the entire suite of network capabilities, including designing various parts to it in a disaggregated world,” said Manish Vyas, CEO of network services at the Pune-based company.

Tech Mahindra has built its reference architecture for the telecom network, and has technologies and a set of companies that are integral to the whole suite, he said.

It is also looking for strategic investments and acquisition of companies to further bolster its telecom product and services portfolio.

“We will also look at strategic investments as we have done in the past where it may not give us the ownership of companies, but it gives us the ownership of an access to that technology and the platforms,” said Vyas, who is also the company’s president – communications and media & entertainment business.