Airtel's Vice Chairman and Managing Director, Gopal Vittal, has commented on his opinion on the 5G hype. Vittal says that 5G has not been able to live up to the buzz, and has not been as transformative as it was marketed out to be. The Airtel executive says that neither has 5G disrupted business models or increased revenue, something that telcos hoped would happen, after adoption of 5G.

In Airtel's latest earnings call, Vittal said, " One of the pain points in the telecom world across the globe is that 5G has not lived its promise of what it was meant to. The primary use case of 5G is only speed and now it is just a more efficient way of producing the same gigabyte, it is a more efficient way of doing it, but it has not led to any monetisation, anywhere in the world."

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