Bharti Airtel steals a march on 5G rivals, conducts live testing of service
Exhibiting its 5G prowess, Bharti
Airtel on Thursday announced that it had successfully conducted
a live demonstration of 5G service over a commercial network in Hyderabad city.
The company said the full impact of the 5G experience would be
available to Airtel customers when adequate spectrum is available and
government approvals received.
Gopal Vittal, managing director and chief executive officer of
Bharti Airtel, said, “Every one of our investments is future proofed as this
game-changing test in Hyderabad proves. With Airtel being the first operator to
demonstrate this capability, we have shown again that we have always been the
first in India to pioneer new technologies in our quest for empowering Indians
everywhere.”
The demonstration in Hyderabad was conducted over an existing
liberalised spectrum in the 1800 megahertz (MHz) band.
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Vittal said India has the potential to become a global hub for 5G
innovation and this would require the coming together of the ecosystem —
applications, devices, and network innovation. He added that Airtel was “more
than ready” to do its bit.
The company seamlessly operated 5G and 4G concurrently within the
same spectrum block.
Though Airtel has started testing 5G services, the spectrum for
this has been kept out of the auctions proposed to be held in March.
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