Breaking Airtel is 1st Telco to launch 5G in 8 cities from 1st Oct

[Ashok Varma]

Airtel is 1st Telco to launch 5G in 8 cities including 4 metros, Varanasi, Bangalore, Ahmadabad and Hyderabad from 1st Oct

Mukesh forced us to catch up on 4G, but Airtel will be first telco to launch 5G today in 8 cities: Sunil Mittal - ET Telecom

Bharti Airtel: “We had started 4G in India, but Mukesh’s (Jio) gave tremendous speed to countrywide 4G proliferation and forced us to run fast to catch up, and today Airtel will become the first telco to launch 5G services in eight cities,” Mittal said at India Mobile Congress on Saturday.

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[TheCapedCrusader]

Don't worry same way he will force you to catch up on 5G also

 

[d5aqoep]

8 cities with 8 5G enabled towers. Great launch!

 

[TheAndroidFreak]

Don't worry same way he will force you to catch up on 5G also

Mittal can't catch up. NSA to SA transformation will take huge time and till that time Jio bandwidth will get increased.

 

[TheAndroidFreak]

8 cities with 8 5G enabled towers. Great launch!

2012 Nostalgia.

 

[Ashok Varma]

8 cities with 8 5G enabled towers. Great launch!

We might travel to search 5G tower with 5G phone in each city of 8.

 

[saketk11]

We might travel to search 5G tower with 5G phone in each city of 8.

and even wear Augmented realty glass to see signal strength

 

[Esmail]

Is anyone from these 8 cities able to latch on to Airtel 5G signal with their 5G handsets?

 

[d5aqoep]

Is anyone from these 8 circles able to latch on to Airtel 5G signal with their 5G handsets?

No. It’s a paper launch so that Modiji could drive fast cars in VR.

I think iPhones need Carrier update to enable 5G.

 

[TheCapedCrusader]

In my opinion, even these top metros will take atleast a year to cover 50% population