Airtel is all set to deploy its 5G connectivity in all the metro cities of India by the end of the year. Airtel will end its task of deploying 5G in metro cities by the end of the year 2022. Airtel is also claiming that it will be providing 5G connectivity in all the major cities of India by the end of 2023.
The race of deploying 5G connectivity in India is getting hyped day by day between the two major telecom operators, Airtel and Reliance Jio. Although Airtel is a little ahead of Jio in rolling out 5G because Airtel has used the NSA (non-Standalone) mode in which they only upgraded the former 4G infrastructure. While Jio was doing its beta testing on 5G, Airtel had already deployed 5G for commercial use because Jio had opted for Standalone mode which requires the change of whole infrastructure.
Airtel has deployed 5G connectivity in over 18 cities:
1. Delhi
2. Mumbai
3. Lucknow
4. Chennai
5. Gurugram
6. Varanasi
7. Shimla
8. Ahmedabad
9. Bengaluru
10. Hyderabad
11. Siliguri
12. Nagpur
13. Panipat
14. Guwahati
15. Patna
16. Imphal
17. Vizag
18. Visakhapatnam
People living in these cities can take the advantages of using 5G in 5G compatible phones. Airtel claimed that their 5G will run 30% faster than their 4G network and users can download 4K videos, large files, movies, games and much more in a few seconds.
– Open ‘Settings’ in your phones.
– Go to ‘Mobile Networks”
– Select the SIM
– Go to the ‘Preferred network type’ option
– Tap and select the 5G network
– After doing that, 5G will start showing on status bar in some minutes
– Go to ‘Settings’
– Tap on ‘Mobile Data’
– Open ‘Mobile Data Options’
– Go to ‘Voice and Data’
– Tap 5G or 5G auto