India, March 19 -- Vodafone Idea announced the launch of its 5G services on Wednesday, starting in Mumbai.

This is an important launch since it signals optimism for the troubled telecom company, which has struggled to compete with rivals Reliance Jio and Bharti Airtel.

For this, the company had partnered with Finnish tech giant Nokia for using its 5G equipment, and the service will slowly expand across India in a phased manner, it announced in its official statement.

Vodafone Idea also has deployed an Artificial Intelligence (AI)-based SON (Self-Organizing Networks) system, which is to continuously optimizes network performance.

This comes after the company raised funds totalling Rs.26,000 crore for capital expenditure (capex) deploym...