UPDATE 1-Apple, Samsung to upgrade phone software in India for 5G roll out by Dec - Yahoo Finance

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NEW DELHI, Oct 12 (Reuters) - Apple Inc and Samsung Electronics volition upgrade bundle for their 5G-enabled phones successful India by December, the companies said connected Wednesday, arsenic Indian authorities property mobile telephone manufacturers to follow the high-speed network.

Apple said it would propulsion bundle upgrades to caller models, including the iPhone 14, 13, 12 and iPhone SE, which, manufacture sources say, bash not yet enactment the network.

"We are moving with our bearer partners successful India to bring the champion 5G acquisition to iPhone users arsenic soon arsenic web validation and investigating for prime and show is completed," Apple said successful a statement.

"5G volition beryllium enabled via a bundle update and volition commencement rolling retired to iPhone users successful December."

Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi launched 5G services connected Oct. 1 amid overmuch fanfare, with starring telecom relation Reliance Jio saying it would marque the work disposable successful 4 cities, portion rival Bharti Airtel targeted 8 cities.

A Samsung India spokesperson said the institution would rotation retired updates crossed each its 5G devices by mid-November.

Ministry of electronics and IT officials held a gathering connected Wednesday dedicated to 5G adoption, which executives from Apple, Samsung, Vivo and Xiaomi, and telecom operators Reliance, Airtel and Vodafone Idea attended.

The docket includes "prioritising" the merchandise of bundle upgrades for supporting the high-speed network, the announcement for the closed-door gathering stated.

While telecom players and smartphone makers person been holding discussions with each other, ironing retired compatibility issues betwixt the circumstantial 5G exertion of telecom companies successful India and telephone bundle is taking time, 1 of the manufacture sources said.

A Google spokesperson said connected Wednesday: "Pixel 7, 7 Pro and Pixel 6a are 5G susceptible devices. We are actively moving with the Indian carriers to alteration functionality astatine the earliest." (Reporting by Munsif Vengattil successful New Delhi, Writing by Shivam Patel; Editing by Savio D'Souza and Tomasz Janowski)