WiSig Networks Opens Commercial Orders for India-Developed 5G Radio

WiSig Networks has opened commercial orders for a 5G radio designed and built in India, the deep-tech company said on Thursday, marking the shift of a publicly funded research effort from laboratory work into commercial product development. The company, founded at IIT Hyderabad, said volume supplies are expected to start in 2027. The order book was opened at the India Mobile Congress in New Delhi in October 2026, after an earlier showing at Mobile World Congress in Barcelona in March 2026.

The product is a multi-antenna radio for mobile networks. It runs several antennas together so that a base station can transmit and receive multiple signals at the same time. The company says this approach can improve network capacity, performance and coverage, which matters as mobile data traffic keeps rising and operators look to get more out of existing 5G sites.

A research project turned product

The underlying work on advanced wireless communication was led by Professor Kiran Kuchi at IIT Hyderabad. It was supported by the IIITB COMET Foundation at IIIT Bangalore, under the National Mission on Interdisciplinary Cyber-Physical Systems run by the Department of Science and Technology. WiSig Networks licensed the resulting technology and has now taken it to the point of taking customer orders.

Foundation officials framed the milestone as evidence that public research money can reach the market. Debabrata Das, chairman of the governing body of the IIITB COMET Foundation and director of IIIT Bangalore, said the outcome is the kind research funding should aim to produce, and that collaboration between academia and industry is critical if India is to build its own capabilities in emerging technologies. Sridhar Pillalamarri, chief executive of the foundation, said the development shows how research support, technology transfer and industry participation can carry indigenous innovation toward the market.

Why domestic radio design matters

Advanced 5G network equipment has traditionally depended on capabilities developed outside India. Building a radio at home, even one aimed first at domestic carriers, gives the country a design and engineering base that did not exist before. For the technical workforce, the project creates a route for radio frequency, signal processing and embedded software engineers to work on base station hardware rather than only on deployment and integration of imported systems.

The multi-antenna design sits at the center of that skills demand. Engineers working on 5G radio must handle antenna arrays, digital signal processing, thermal and power design, and the software that schedules traffic across multiple streams. Those skills overlap with the wider 5G technology applications field, where operators and vendors need staff who can plan, test and tune live networks as traffic patterns change.

What to watch next

The next test is commercial scale. Bulk supplies are expected in 2027, and the company has not disclosed order volumes, customer names or pricing. How quickly Indian carriers commit to the radio, and whether it is deployed in live commercial networks rather than trials, will show whether the research-to-product path holds. Follow-on work at the IIITB COMET Foundation and further licensing deals from university laboratories are also likely to be watched as a measure of whether this model can be repeated in other parts of the telecom equipment chain.