Airtel Successfully Tests Its 5G Network in Hyderabad

After Jio boasting about its 5G plans and how it is indigenously developing all of the components in India, its fiercest rival Airtel has announced that it has successfully conducted alive 5G tests in the country. Airtel boasts that information technology is Republic of india's first telecom giant to demonstrate & orchestrate "Alive 5G service" over a commercial network in Hyderabad.

Now, you must exist thinking, how is it possible when the 5G spectrum auction is nonetheless to accept place? What frequency ring did Airtel utilize? In an official press release, Airtel has revealed that it used a spectrum cake in the 1800MHz band. Information technology used NSA (Non-Standalone) engineering to "seamlessly operate 5G and 4G [networks] concurrently within the same spectrum cake" in Hyderabad. The telco utilized "a first of its kind, dynamic spectrum sharing" system to achieve this milestone.

During the test, the company adds that users in Hyderabad were able to download a full-length movie within a few seconds on a 5G network. Thus, the test underlined non only the technology simply also "validated the 5G readiness of Airtel's network across all domains – Radio, Core and Send," every bit per the press release.

For the past 25 years Airtel has led India'due south digital transformation & today we are proud to go the first telecom company in Bharat to successfully demonstrate Alive #5G services over a commercial network in the metropolis of Hyderabad. #Airtel5GReady picture show.twitter.com/Vx7rSAXNty

— airtel India (@airtelindia) January 28, 2021

"With Airtel being the start operator to demonstrate this adequacy, we have shown once again that we have always been the first in India to pioneer new technologies in our quest for empowering Indians everywhere," stated Gopal Vittal, MD & CEO, Bharti Airtel in the press release.

The telecom giant did not reveal the speeds accomplished over its 5G network. Simply, it adds that the 5G technology is capable of delivering "x times the speed, latency, and 100 times concurrency" in comparison to current-gen 4G technologies. Airtel further adds that information technology'south ready to roll out 5G services and is at present waiting on the Department of Telecommunications (DoT) to allow the utilise of the 5G spectrum.

"The full affect of the 5G experience, even so, will be available to our customers, when adequate spectrum is available and regime approvals received," mentions Airtel. In addition, Reliance Jio is as well gearing up to roll out 5G services across Bharat in the second half of 2021. It has tested its 5G network in partnership with Qualcomm in the U.s.a..