{"id":1682616,"date":"2022-10-11T05:06:40","date_gmt":"2022-10-11T09:06:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1682616"},"modified":"2022-10-11T05:07:35","modified_gmt":"2022-10-11T09:07:35","slug":"india-to-press-apple-samsung-for-faster-5g-software-upgrades-in-phones","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/india-to-press-apple-samsung-for-faster-5g-software-upgrades-in-phones\/","title":{"rendered":"India to press Apple, Samsung for faster 5G software upgrades in phones"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">24<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Findia-to-press-apple-samsung-for-faster-5g-software-upgrades-in-phones%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1682616&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>By Aditya Kalra and Munsif Vengattil<\/p>\n<p>NEW DELHI (Reuters) \u2013     India\u2019s government will push Apple, Samsung and other mobile phone manufacturers to prioritise rolling out software upgrades to support 5G in the country, amid concerns that many of their models are not ready for the recently launched high-speed service.<\/p>\n<div id=\"div-gpt-ad-1663871513696-art-1\">\n<\/div>\n<p>Prime Minister Narendra Modi launched 5G services on Oct. 1 amid much fanfare, with leading telecom operator Reliance Jio saying it would make the service available in four cities and rival Bharti Airtel in eight. Both companies said the service would be expanded next year.<\/p>\n<p>But Apple\u2019s iPhone models, including the latest iPhone 14, and many of Samsung\u2019s premier phones do not have software compatible for supporting 5G in India, according to three industry sources and Airtel\u2019s website.<\/p>\n<p>Concerned by this, top bureaucrats from India\u2019s telecoms and IT departments will chair a meeting on Wednesday for early 5G adoption, asking smartphone executives from foreign companies Apple, Samsung, Vivo and Xiaomi, as well as domestic telecom operators Reliance, Airtel and Vodafone Idea  to be present, according to a government document seen by Reuters.<\/p>\n<p>The agenda includes holding talks \u201cto prioritise\u201d and release software upgrades for supporting the high-speed network, the notice for the closed-door meeting stated.<\/p>\n<p>Apple Inc, Samsung Electronics , Vivo, Xiaomi Corp , as well as the three domestic telecom operators, did not immediately respond to a request for comment. The government\u2019s IT and telecom departments also did not respond.<\/p>\n<p>India has said that launch of 5G in the world\u2019s biggest mobile market \u2013 after China \u2013 will bring high-speed internet to consumers, with simultaneous socio-economic benefits in sectors like agriculture and health.<\/p>\n<p>In August, Jio, India\u2019s biggest mobile carrier with more than 420 million customers, snapped up airwaves worth $11 billion in a $19 billion 5G spectrum auction. Airtel spent more than $5 billion, while Vodafone doled out above $2 billion.<\/p>\n<p>While telecom players and smartphone companies have been holding discussions with each other, ironing out compatibility issues between the specific 5G technology of telecom companies in India and phone software is taking time, one of the industry sources said.<\/p>\n<p>Airtel\u2019s website on Tuesday showed \u201cApple yet to update software\u201d for all of Apple iPhones\u2019 12 to 14 models under its 5G compatible section. For Samsung too, many models were not ready, Airtel stated, while more than three dozen models of China\u2019s Xiaomi and Vivo were shown as ready for use with its 5G service.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cApple has been taking a lot of time. Airtel has been concerned about this as many of their premium clients are on Apple devices,\u201d said a second industry source with direct knowledge of the situation, who added Apple and Airtel have been holding talks.    <\/p>\n<p>A third source with direct knowledge of the issue said Apple was in the process of testing and validating different 5G offerings from network providers in India.<\/p>\n<p> (Reporting by Aditya Kalra in New Delhi; Editing by Raju Gopalakrishnan)<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.oann.com\/uncategorized\/india-to-press-apple\/attachment\/people-stand-in-front-of-a-board-depicting-5g-network\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/tagreuters.com2022binary_LYNXMPEI9A0FE-BASEIMAGE.jpg\" alt=\"tagreuters.com2022binary_LYNXMPEI9A0FE-BASEIMAGE\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Aditya Kalra and Munsif Vengattil NEW DELHI (Reuters) \u2013 India\u2019s government will push Apple, Samsung and other mobile phone manufacturers to prioritise rolling out software upgrades to support 5G<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":66,"featured_media":1889675,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1682616","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_finder_url":"https:\/\/www.oann.com\/business\/india-to-press-apple\/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=india-to-press-apple","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1682616","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/66"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1682616"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1682616\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1889675"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1682616"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1682616"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1682616"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}