AgenciesIndia's first 5G technology trials for rural broadband began on Thursday at Ajol village in Gujarat with a base transceiver station (BTS) installed 17km away at Unava town in the Gandhinagar district.
A team of representatives from the department of telecom (DoT) and two private mobile service providers visited the village to measure speeds, recording a 105.47 Mbps download speed and a 58.77 Mbps upload speed.
Among the technologies being tested are 360 degrees virtual reality content playback, a virtual-reality connected classroom, 5G immersive gaming and artificial intelligence assisted 360 degrees cameras with real-time video streams, said senior DoT officials.
On Thursday, the Gujarat DoT LSA team comprising DDGs Ajatshatru Somani, Roshan Lal Meena, directors Sumit Mishra and Vikas Dadhich, along with technical teams of Vodafone Idea Limited (VIL) and Nokia, visited the 5G testing sites of Gandhinagar.
On November 19, the DoT team checked speeds at the Mahatma Mandir 5G site in Gandhinagar city, which was found to be about 1.5 Gbps, about 100 times faster than 4G.
(With inputs from TOI)
A team of representatives from the department of telecom (DoT) and two private mobile service providers visited the village to measure speeds, recording a 105.47 Mbps download speed and a 58.77 Mbps upload speed.
Among the technologies being tested are 360 degrees virtual reality content playback, a virtual-reality connected classroom, 5G immersive gaming and artificial intelligence assisted 360 degrees cameras with real-time video streams, said senior DoT officials.
On Thursday, the Gujarat DoT LSA team comprising DDGs Ajatshatru Somani, Roshan Lal Meena, directors Sumit Mishra and Vikas Dadhich, along with technical teams of Vodafone Idea Limited (VIL) and Nokia, visited the 5G testing sites of Gandhinagar.
On November 19, the DoT team checked speeds at the Mahatma Mandir 5G site in Gandhinagar city, which was found to be about 1.5 Gbps, about 100 times faster than 4G.
(With inputs from TOI)
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