Telecom operator Bharti Airtel recorded a speed of over 1 Gigabit per second during a 5G field trial in Mumbai using Finnish firm Nokia’s network gear, according to sources.
The company is running a live 5G trial in Mumbai’s Phoenix Mall in Lower Parel.
A Nokia spokesperson confirmed the development.
“Airtel is conducting the trial in the 3,500MHz band using 5G gear from Nokia under DoT guidelines. The trials have delivered speeds of over 1 Gbps with ultra-low latency,” one of the sources said. 1 Gbps is 1,000 Mbps (Megabits per second).
The department of telecom (DoT) had recently allotted 5G trial spectrum to Airtel in the 3,500MHz, 28GHz and 700MHz bands in Delhi-NCR, Mumbai, Calcutta and Bangalore to develop India-relevant use cases on the next generation fast wireless broadband technology.
Earlier this year, Airtel became the first telecom operator to test 5G over a live network in Hyderabad using liberalised spectrum in 1800MHz band.
“Airtel and Nokia plan to soon begin 5G trials in Calcutta,” the source said.