Bharti Airtel Looks South, Deploys New Spectrum in AP, T'gana

Bharti Airtel today said it has deployed new spectrum in Andhra Pradesh and Telangana. This has marked one of the many upgrades the telco has been making over the past month or so, in preparation of 5G rollout.

Bharti Airtel Shores Up Network in the South

Bharti Airtel has deployed an additional 4 MHz of in the 900 MHz band for 4G and upgraded 10,000 mobile sites across the two states to 4G. The telco said in a press release that this move will significantly bolster capacity. The telco also said that this move will improve indoor coverage.

With this deployment, Bharti Airtel now has the largest spectrum bank of 65.4 Mhz in Andhra Pradesh and Telangana. It has spectrum deployed across 4 bands, starting from 900 MHz all the way to 2.3 GHz band. Notably, Airtel has already deployed a 5G test site in the region; it became the first telco to demonstrate a live 5G service over a commercial network in Hyderabad.

On the occasion, Avneet Singh Puri, CEO – Andhra Pradesh and Telangana, Bharti Airtel said, “additional deployment of L900 technology will further boost indoor coverage and add more muscle to Airtel's 4G spectrum bank in the two states. To stay ahead of the curve, we recently demonstrated Live 5G service in Hyderabad".

The telco claimed that it has over 31 million customers in the region, covering 97% of the total population.