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Vittal states in the letter to clients, "We anticipate launching our 5G services within a month. We should achieve coverage in the major urban areas by December. After, we'll quickly expand to include the entire nation. By the end of 2023, we plan to have urban India completely covered.
Gopal Vittal, the CEO of Airtel, has advised customers to opt for a 5G-capable smartphone when they purchase a new one. The company's CEO revealed that users will soon be able to access the Airtel Thanks app to see if their area supports Airtel's 5G services in a letter to customers, as reported by the Economic Times.
The telco had stated that it will introduce 5G services nationwide by October, prior to Diwali. Around the same time, Reliance Jio, Airtel's main rival, will also introduce its 5G services in India.
Vittal states in the letter to clients, "We anticipate launching our 5G services within a month. We should achieve coverage in the major urban areas by December. After, we'll quickly expand to include the entire nation. By the end of 2023, we plan to have urban India completely covered.
According to the letter, Airtel's 5G network was developed with customers' smartphones in mind and is non-standalone(NSA). Due to the fact that NSA is based on an existing 4G network, it is frequently used in the other nations. By doing this, the headache of procuring a new SIM card or even setting up new infrastructure is eliminated.
He added,"This guarantees that any 5G smartphone in India will operate flawlessly on the Airtel network. This will be true even if you use an Airtel 5G phone while travelling abroad. In comparison to earlier technologies. Up to four out of ten 5G may not support 5G, he continued.
Airtel 5G, according to Vittal, would offer "dramatically greater speeds" than the 4G network. The telco claimed that 5G is 100 times faster than 4G in a blog post. According to the report, mid-band 5G delivers a speed between 100 and 900 Mbps, while low-band 5G gives rates between 50 and 250 Mbps. 5G gigabit is the high band. Up to 1.8 Gbps is currently being tested. India's average fixed broadband speed in July 2022 was 72.3 Mbps, for reference.