Vi (Vodafone Idea) Starts 5G Trial

Описание: Vi (Vodafone Idea) Starts 5G Trial. Vodafone Idea, India's third largest telecom operator, has started 5G trials in Pune and Gandhinagar in partnership with European vendors Ericsson and Pune, the company's MD Ravinder Takkar said on Friday.

"Recently, we have tested dynamic spectrum sharing as a feature between 4G and 5G with our existing 4g spectrum. We have initiated 5G trials with our major network partners Nokia and Ericsson on the freshly allocated 5G spectrum in Pune and Gandhinagar," Takkar said.

"While we are in the middle of our 4G capex cycle, we have been deploying equipment which is 5G ready for both radio and core," he said, adding that the telco has the advantage of having the latest 4G equipment which is capable of upgrading to 5G.

"We have made progress in deploying several 5G ready technologies such as massive mimo, dynamic spectrum refarming and cloudification of core etc They are very much central to our future growth," he further added.

Reliance Jio and Airtel had recently started their respective 5G trials in Delhi-NCR and Mumbai. While Jio is trialing its own 5G technology, Airtel is using Ericsson's gear in Gurgaon using 3.5GHz band.

The Department of Telecommunications (DoT) had recently allocated 5G trial spectrum in the 700 MHz, 3.5 GHz and 26 GHz bands to Airtel, Reliance Jio and Vodafone Idea (Vi) to develop India-relevant use cases on the next-gen fast wireless broadband technology.

Allotment of 5G trial spectrum is particularly crucial for Jio and Airtel, who already have 5G-ready networks and have recently bulked up on crucial airwaves in the recent auction to cater to the surge in data usage amid Covid and also future-proof themselves ahead of 5G rollouts.

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