Airtel 5G rolls out in India; new 5G service to be made available at existing 4G rates

Airtel 5G services will be offered at current 4G rates until a new 5G tariff is established, according to a senior corporate executive.

GT Correspondent

Updated Oct 3, 2022, 16:56 IST

Airtel 5G

According to Sunil Bharti Mittal, chairman of Bharti Airtel, who spoke at the India Mobile Congress, the 5G service will be available in eight cities starting on Saturday. With this, Bharti Airtel has established itself as the nation's first company to introduce 5G services. "What time today will you (Prime Minister) introduce 5G. 8 cities, including Delhi, Mumbai, Varanasi, Bangalore, and others, would have Airtel 5G service available "By Mittal.

Additionally, he stated that Airtel would roll out 5G services across India by March 2024 and in a number of other locations by March 2023.

Airtel 5G services will be offered at current 4G rates until a new 5G tariff is established, according to a senior corporate executive. The officer stated that Siliguri, Chennai, and Hyderabad are also getting 5G services.

Randeep Singh Sekhon, chief technology officer at Bharti Airtel, stated that the organization's backend infrastructure is prepared. "For 5G service, we must put some hardware on mobile towers. We're taking it slow. The service will be accessible as of now now in the vicinity of towers where the apparatus has been placed "Sekhon continued.

He claimed that Airtel is expanding its 5G service coverage and adding new cities daily. To utilise the service, which is being introduced today, people must have 5G phones, according to Sekhon.

Immediately following the conclusion of the auctions, Bharti Airtel placed an order with Ericsson, Nokia, and Samsung for 5G equipment. The Sunil Mittal-led company has increased its spectrum holding by acquiring 19,867.8MHZ spectrum in the 900MHz, 1800MHz, 2100MHz, 3300MHz, and 26GHz bands.

In the recently concluded auction, Bharti Airtel purchased spectrum valued at Rs 43,084 crore.

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