India, Oct. 16 -- Bharti Airtel has selected Swedish telecom gear maker Ericsson to deploy 5G-ready cloud technology on its core network across India, the two companies announced on Wednesday.

"Ericsson is one of our key network partners and this deployment will help us enhance our packet core network which will not just scale up data capacity, but also make us edge cloud ready," Randeep Sekhon, CTO, Bharti Airtel said in a statement.

The Swedish firm claimed that would enhance capacity in Airtel's network and enable to address the rapidly growing demand for high speed data services.

"The technologies and solutions that we are providing Airtel are a key part of Ericsson's 5G Core offering. The deployment of these technologies will help A...