Airtel offers 4G service in 1800 Mhz band frequency while other companies are yet to roll out their services.
The move is expected to help Nokia expand its presence in the key US market.
Ravi Shankar Prasad in a review meeting of MTNL earlier this month had pulled up officials for poor network quality and slow pace of network roll-out.
Makkonen never received any money from the invention of text messaging, never applied for a patent
Nokia is one of the leading telecom equipment manufacturing companies in India
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