Bharti Airtel announced that it is becoming the country’s leading telecom service provider to successfully “demonstrate and orchestrate” 5G live service. The demonstration occurred within the city of Hyderabad.
Airtel has been tested the new 5G network over its existing spectrum within the 1800 MHz band through the NSA (non-standalone) network technology and using dynamic spectrum sharing, Airtel claims that its 5G and 4G connections work seamlessly from an equivalent spectrum block and We also believe that India has the potential to become a global 5G innovation hub.
we would like the ecosystem to come together again: applications, devices and network innovation.to form that happen we’d like the ecosystem to return together – applications, devices and network innovation. We are quite able to do our bit,” Gopal Vittal, MD & CEO, Bharti Airtel said.
NSA may be a 5G service which, because the name suggests, doesn’t stand alone but is made over an existing 4G network, whereas SA (Standalone Architecture) enables independent 5G service operations with none interaction with an existing 4G core.
With this, Airtel has shown that it’s the potential to work 5G over its existing spectrum within the mid-band (1800/2100/2300 MHz) and sub-GHz bands (800/900 MHz) and may operate 5G and 4G within an equivalent spectrum block if it’s permitted.
While an occasional band (600-700 MHz) tower can cover a larger area of hundreds of square miles with 5G services at speeds within the range of 30-250 megabits per second (mbps), a mid-band tower (2.5 / 3.5 GHz) can cover a radius smaller than a few miles with 5G service at speeds of 100 to 900 Mbps.
On the other hand, a high-band tower (24-39 GHz) can cover a radius of a mile or less while still providing speeds of around 1-3 Gbps.
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Airtel explained that it uses next-generation dynamic spectrum sharing to operate 4G and 5G networks on the same spectrum block. One of the leading telecommunications companies in India has successfully tried to do this in the current spectrum in the 1800 MHz band using non-autonomous network technology (NSA). Airtel claimed that it only took a few seconds to download a movie during its 5G network demo.
The company said that the 5G network could deliver ten times the speed and latency previously achieved with 100 times the concurrency compared to the technology used. The government has not included spectrum in the 3,300-3,600 MHz bands recommended for 5G by telecom operators.
Important Point:
- Bharti Airtel explained that it is using advanced dynamic spectrum sharing to operate 4G and 5G networks in the same spectrum block.
- One of India’s major telecom companies managed to try and do this atop the present spectrum within the 1800 MHz band through the Non-Stand Alone (NSA) network technology.
- Airtel also claimed that it took only some seconds to download a full-length film during its demonstration of the 5G network
- The company said that the 5G network could deliver ten times the speed and latency attained previously with 100 times the concurrency compared to the technology in use
The government has not included the spectrum within the 3,300-3,600 MHz bands recommended for 5G by the telecom operators.