Airtel begins 5G trials in Bengaluru in 3,500 MHz band spectrum

Airtel has begun 5G trials in Bengaluru in the 3,500 MHz band spectrum allotted by the DoT for trials, sources told TOI. The telco has, so far, conducted 5G trials in Hyderabad, Mumbai, Gurugram, rural trials in Bhaipur Bramanan village on the outskirts of Delhi/NCR and has demonstrated data speedss of over 1.2 Gbps on connected devices. Airtel plans to pilot many use cases in Bengaluru in partnership with tech companies. Ericsson is Airtel’s network partner.These solutions tested will include those for smart factory, smart healthcare, quality inspection, digital twin, connected frontline workforce, and AR/VR based use cases.The tests are in partnership with Accenture, AWS, Cisco, Ericsson, Google Cloud, Nokia, TCS, Apollo Hospitals, Flipkart and several manufacturing companies. Airtel has demonstrated India’s first rural 5G trial as well as the first cloud gaming experience on 5G.Earlier this week, it entered into a major cloud partnership with Oracle, which includes building joint solutions for 5G use cases. Times of India