Airtel starts 5G trials in Gurugram, offers 1Gbps speed

byPOLITICS EXPERT VLOG Published:June 15, 2021

Airtel starts 5G trials in Gurugram, offers 1Gbps speed...

In a bid to provide better internet speeds to consumers, telecom companies in India are conducting trials for 5G. While there is no information about its official launch, both Airtel and Reliance got a green signal from the government to test the 5G services in India.

Airtel has now started 5G trial in Gurgaon, during which, it is giving a maximum speed of 1Gbps to its customers. Airtel's trial is running on the 3500MHz band, even though earlier it was using the 1800MHz band for 5G.

This trial is currently going on in Gurugram Cyber Hub and Airtel has partnered with Swedish company Ericsson for it. Apart from Gurugram, the company is planning to test 5G in Mumbai soon.

Airtel has got 3500MHz, 28GHz and 700MHz bands in Delhi-NCR, Mumbai, Kolkata and Bangalore for 5G testing.

As per Ookla, a platform to test your internet speed, India is at the 130th position in the list of mobile internet speed. People in India get the maximum downloading speed of 12.81 Mbps and an upload speed of 4.79 Mbps on a 4G mobile network.

In January this year, Airtel announced a 5G-ready network and successfully demonstrated the 5G service commercially in Hyderabad. Airtel achieved this feat by expanding the existing spectrum in the 1800 MHz band through NSA (Non-Stand Alone) network technology.

Using first-of-its-kind dynamic spectrum sharing, Airtel operated 5G and 4G concurrently in the same spectrum block. During the demo, users in Hyderabad were able to download an entire movie on a 5G phone in just seconds.

Atmanirbhar Bharat Mission

Atmanirbhar bharat or Self - Reliant India Mission ' is the vision of the prime minister of india Narendra Modi of making india a self - reliant nation . This mission cameup in the form of the ' Atmanirbhar bharat abhiyan ' or self - reliant india mission ' during the announcement of the coronavirus pandemic related economic package on 12th May 2020.

This self - reliant policy does not aim that to be protectionist in nature and as the finance minister clarified , " self - reliant india does not mean cutting off from the rest of the world .
Ravi shankar prasad [ law and IT minister ]
said that self - reliance does not mean isolating away from the world.
Foreign direct investment is welcome , technology is welcome self - reliant india .

✔ Initiatives :-

Atmanirbhar bharat package is very numerous government decisions have taken place such as changing the definition of MSME
[Ministry of Micro , Small and Medium Enterprises is a brach of Government of India], boosting scope for private participation in numerous sector , increasing FDI
[Foreign direct investment] in the defence sector and the vision has found support in the many of the sector such as solar manufacture sector .

☑ Examples of Initiatives which helped Atmanirbhar Bharat :

The growth of india personal protective equipement [PPE] sector from zero before march to 1,50,000 pieces by the beginning of May .

The PPE industry in india has become a Rs.7000 crore in two months the second largest after china .

The largest fund in the country worth Rs.21,000 crore was setup by the IIT Alumni Council[Indian Institute of Technology Alumni Council ] with the aim of supporting the mission towards self - reliance ..
India's own 'Made in india ' 5G network
was also announced in july 2020 by Reliance Jio .
Mukesh Ambani
[Mukesh Dhirubhai Ambani is an indian billonaire buisness magnate ad the chairman , manging director and largest shareholder of Reliance limited ]announced in mid term of july ' Jio ' has created a complete 5G solution from scratch , that will enable us to launch a world - class 5G service in india , and they were using 100 percent homegrown technologies and solutions .
In month of july 2020 , it was announced that Apple
would manufacture one of their premium iPhone models in India.
In month of August 2020 , the Defence Minister Rajnath Singh announced that the Defence Ministry is now readyfor a big push to 'Atmanirbhar Bharat Initiative' .