Airtel wins 5G auction, owns spectrum for 20 years for Rs 43,084 crore.
The discussion about 5G network in the country has been going on for a long time. Everyone is eagerly waiting for 5G spectrum with fast connectivity. Recently India’s leading telecom service provider, Bharti Airtel (“Airtel”) has announced that it is ready to lead the 5G revolution in India. The telecom company said that Airtel has achieved a pan India footprint of megabands of 900 MHz, 1800 MHz, 2100 MHz, 3300 MHz and 26 GHz frequencies in this 5G network consisting of 19867.8 MHz spectrum during this auction. Airtel has made its hold in 5G networking by acquiring it for the next 20 years.
Prior to this, Bharti Airtel has been able to strengthen the network mainly in the mid-band spectrum. In the latest spectrum auction process initiated by the Department of Telecommunications, Indian Government recently, Airtel has won such a huge 5G spectrum by buying it for about Rs 43,084 crore. By purchasing this spectrum of Airtel, it now has spectrum up to 19,867.8 MHz in 900 MHz, 1800 MHz, 2100 MHz, 3300 MHz 3.5 GHz and 26 GHz bands.
Today, with the arrival of 5G spectrum with Airtel, it has become the largest provider of Internet broadband facility in the country, through which it can not only start the 5G revolution in the country, but also establish it well. . In the last one year, Airtel along with many of its partners has been at the forefront of testing 5G spectrum. Airtel was the first to lead the 5G trial in the country.
Airtel has made many strategies to buy 5G spectrum in the last few years and due to the same wise decisions and policies, today it has not only been successful in taking 5G spectrum, but also the largest provider of low and medium bands. Through which people will get the best network of 5G with strong capacity of 3.5 GHz. Also, this network of 26 GHz band from Airtel has the ability to provide internet 100 times faster in very less investment.
With the arrival of 5G spectrum, this change will happen in your life
Can watch movies and web series in good quality: On 5G network, you can watch movies and webseries in high quality very comfortably without buffering. You can enjoy streaming even at 4K, going beyond 720P-1080P. With 5G, you can take advantage of high speed and low latency, which will make it easy to watch high definition, live TV streaming and videos without any interruption.
Can easily do work-from-home: Since Corona, many companies are working in hybrid mode, due to which many employees are working from home who need fast internet so that they can easily manage their Can conduct office meetings, conference calls and file submissions. In such a situation, with the arrival of 5G, your work-from-home will get a lot of boost and you can work very fast without buffering.
Opportunity for online and cloud gaming: In today’s time people are very fond of live streaming gaming but it is not possible on 4G spectrum, because it is quite slow. Therefore, with the advent of 5G, you can enjoy online gaming much faster as well as cloud gaming.
There will be a boom in the field of health: With the arrival of 5G, you will be able to take medical facilities from the doctor at home through high definition quality live streaming and wireless connection. It will benefit you a lot.
The dream of smart city will come true: With the advent of 5G, digitization will get a boost very fast. With this, online work like your online transaction to ticket booking etc. will be done in few minutes. Plus, you don’t have to wait for hours for a cab. It will come to you very easily with the fast connectivity of 5G.
Gopal Vittal, MD & CEO, Bharti Airtel said, “We are delighted with the results of the Airtel 5G auction. This was an important part of our smart plan during the recently concluded auction to get the best spectrum at a very low investment despite so much competition. Through this spectrum, we will work to understand all the requirements of the consumers in India to provide them an immersive experience of the best internet connection. Also, we are sure that we will be able to offer the best internet connection as well as better coverage through 5G in India. Through this, the pattern that has been created for both our B2C and B2B consumers will also see a lot of change. He further said that 5G technology is such a revolution, which is capable of bringing changes in services and many areas along with redevelopment in India. We are fully committed to the Digital India vision of the Government of India and it will be our endeavor to make India a great example for the world in the field of technology and we will try to fulfill this goal.”
Talking about the telecom brand that has shown its 5G readiness several times over the past few years, Airtel is the first telecom brand in the country to successfully conduct 5G trials in 2018. The brand also conducted India’s first rural 5G trial on the 700 MHz band in Kolkata. Apart from this, Airtel is also the company to test India’s first 5G connected ambulance in partnership with Apollo Hospitals on the first private 5G network in association with Bosch company. For the first time on 5G spectrum, the exposure of cloud gaming was also given by Airtel.
Along with this, Airtel successfully recreated Kapil Dev’s unbeaten 175 in the 1983 India West Indies match and presented Kapil Dev’s live hologram in the best way through 5G, which was named as Replayed 175.