The Lenovo-owned Motorola planned to accelerate the adoption of 5G in India and announced the entire schedule of the software rollout. On Thursday, the company stated that the software that enables 5G support for Indian carriers on its smartphones has already begun. In addition, the recently-launched Moto Edge 30 Ultra and Moto Edge 30 Fusion will now support Airtel 5G Plus and Jio True 5G. The remaining nine Motorola phones will likely receive the software by the first week of November.
Prashanth Mani, Executive Director, Motorola Asia Pacific, explained how Motorola is deploying 5G services for faster adoption in India. He said “Motorola 5G smartphones in India, across categories, have hardware support for 11 to 13 5G bands including all 8 Sub 6GHz 5G bands that have been announced in India. We have already started the rollout of OTA software updates for enabling 5G across both SA (Reliance Jio) and NSA (Airtel & Vi) 5G modes simultaneously on Motorola devices, enabling consumers to experience seamless 5G across operators.”
The announcement came after the top Indian bureaucrats met with the leading telecom and smartphone companies to discuss 5G adoption regarding the delay in the rollout of 5G software in India. The smartphone brands – Apple, Samsung, Google, HMD Global (Nokia Mobile), and Asus, are still in progress with the 5G software testing. However, Chinese brands such as Realme, Oppo, Vivo, OnePlus, and iQOO have released the OTA update to most of their phones.
Samsung promised to begin the rollout for some of its phones in November, and Apple mentioned earlier this week that its 5G iPhones would get an OTA update in December. On the other hand, Google said it is working toward providing 5G support in two of its phone models, Pixel 6a and Pixel 7, as soon as possible.
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