New Delhi: After the start of Reliance jio’s Beta trial of 5G services on Dussehra in four cities – Mumbai, Delhi, Kolkata, and Varanasi, mobile users will soon get up to 600 megabit per second (mbps) speed in 5G network during the launch phase and handsets are likely to work at par with professional computers for accessing apps and data processing, according to the leading industry players.
Reliance Jio is providing 5G services to select consumers in parts of four cities and Bharti Airtel in parts of eight cities — Delhi, Mumbai, Varanasi, Bengaluru, Chennai, Hyderabad, Nagpur and Siliguri — to all customers with 5G handsets.
Subscribers of both the telecom companies will not require to replace existing sim for availing 5G services.
Jio has said that its customers would avail 5G services under “Beta trial” until the network coverage of a city is substantially complete.
The company has promised access to unlimited 5G data with speed of up to 1 gigabit per second (GBPS). Industry players are of the opinion that this level of speed will be available very close to mobile stations.
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“5G is expected to deliver up to 600 mbps (megabit per second) during the launch phase because traffic on the network will be low. However, it will continue to remain in the range of 200-300 mbps after full roll out,” Ericsson head of network solutions, strategic network evolution, South east Asia, Oceania and India, ThiawSeng Ng said.
This means a two-hour high definition movie which is generally around 6 GB file size can be downloaded in 1 minute 25 seconds and a 4K movie in about 3 minutes at a top speed of 600 mbps.
Customers having a 5G-enabled handsets will see 5G option in their network setting and they will need to select it for availing the service.
The mobile network display on their device will start showing 5G instead of 4G when 5G will be available in their locality.
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Former BSNL chairman and managing director Anupam Shrivastava said that telecom operators are expected to provide free 5G service till the time of roll out and give them a taste of the new service.
“Once the roll out is over in a circle, telecom operators may announce their tariff plan and charge a premium for 5G over 4G,” Shrivastava said.
Nokia senior vice president and head of India market Sanjay Malik said that the high speed in 5G will double average data consumption per subscriber in India in one and half years.
He said that the tariff for 5G services varies from country to country.
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