Waiting for 5G?
According to a senior Bharti Airtel official, all 5G capable smartphones—aside from Apple's iPhones—will begin supporting Airtel 5G services by the middle of this month.
During the company's earnings call, Bharti Airtel Managing Director and Chief Executive Officer Gopal Vittal said that Apple will release the software update in the first week of November and all of its devices should support the company's 5G services by mid-December.support the business's 5G services by mid-December.
Airtel is currently offering 5G services at 4G rates, but in the ensuing 6 to 9 months, the company will probably decide how much to charge for the services of the next generation.
"Samsung... I think there are 27 models of 5G. 16 models are already ready and enabled. Rest will happen by November 10–12," Vittal said. "OnePlus all 17 models will work on our network. Vivo all 34 models, Realme all 34 models, Xiaomi's all 33 models, and Oppo all 14 models will work. Apple has 13 models. They will have (software update) release around the first week of November, and by mid-December they should be all ready."
Vittal said the company expects to cover all towns in urban India as well as key rural areas by March 2024. According to Vitthal, the company is in the 5G network construction phase and then it will make a decision as to what it will do, maybe, in the next nine months.
"As the network starts getting built out we will see a significant part of our existing data traffic on 4G move to . This is important since it will allow us to gradually move more and more spectrum to 5G at the flick of a button. We have also started testing the SA (standalone) mode on 5G. This mode may be relevant for some enterprise use cases," he said.
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