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[TheAndroidFreak]

Jio will suffer once Airtel launches FWA in Mid band with SA, no issues with BSNL as number of towers are very much lower than Jio and Airtel.

SA is already there I feel for FWA. Pings and latency much better than Jio Airfiber. Also, which midband you are talking? If it's N78, then fine. But if it's N1+N3, then it will take three years to complete 4*4MIMO on that band. Airtel doing later part as they have stopped expanding 5G completely(Atleast in my circle). Airtel will reach 500 ARPU within two years I believe due to quality and postpaid consumers(Airtel black). But again if Vi pulls backs their density with N41 and uncap speeds, Airtel will have tough time.


BSNL has 41000 towers with band 28 LTE(at some places band 1 as well). If they somehow manage to do 100K+ till June with 700Mhz LTE then it will be good for them and bad for private operators. It's offering stable speeds of 30-50Mbps. Once Band 1 and band 41 is also deployed, speeds will increase too. Right now, BSNL needs to expand their coverage with VoLTE on 700Mhz. Later once they reach 200K sites, they can start deploying 5G on 78(They have already tested 70Mhz 5G on N78 with 450Mbps speeds which are better than Vi at the moment) and 4G on band 1/8/41 bands. BSNL definitely have great future if they deploy sites fast now.

 

[Ashok Varma]

SA is already there I feel for FWA. Pings and latency much better than Jio Airfiber. Also, which midband you are talking? If it's N78, then fine. But if it's N1+N3, then it will take three years to complete 4*4MIMO on that band. Airtel doing later part as they have stopped expanding 5G completely(Atleast in my circle). Airtel will reach 500 ARPU within two years I believe due to quality and postpaid consumers(Airtel black). But again if Vi pulls backs their density with N41 and uncap speeds, Airtel will have tough time.


BSNL has 41000 towers with band 28 LTE(at some places band 1 as well). If they somehow manage to do 100K+ till June with 700Mhz LTE then it will be good for them and bad for private operators. It's offering stable speeds of 30-50Mbps. Once Band 1 and band 41 is also deployed, speeds will increase too. Right now, BSNL needs to expand their coverage with VoLTE on 700Mhz. Later once they reach 200K sites, they can start deploying 5G on 78(They have already tested 70Mhz 5G on N78 with 450Mbps speeds which are better than Vi at the moment) and 4G on band 1/8/41 bands. BSNL definitely have great future if they deploy sites fast now.

BSNL will take another 2 years to implement all bands for 4G & 5G

 

[TheAndroidFreak]

BSNL will take another 2 years to implement all bands for 4G & 5G

Only 4G on 700Mhz will be completed within next fifteen months. 5G will take time even though radios of Tejas Networks are ready.


For Airtel to move to SA, it will take similar time. If BSNL doesn't increase prices even on December 2025 which is next tariff hike, it will be huge benefit for BSNL. Vi coverage will improve with density of band 41 and band 1 reframing is almost completed. Things are tough for Airtel and Jio.