Almost all the smartphones in the metro cities in India support 4G LTE. And with the boom of cost-effective offers by Reliance Jio, many smartphone users are using high-speed LTE internet on their smartphones.
However, Telecom service providers are working to bring the next generation 5G technology by the year 2020.
Now although this seems like a really long timeline, the work necessary to overcome this exorbitant too. The way these telecom giants are going to achieve this feat is by introducing the Multiple Input Multiple Output technology (MIMO) into their networks.
MIMO is one of the pre-requisites for the deployment of 5G network. Massive MIMO boosts up a network base station by five to seven times while reducing disturbances considerably. This also helps in boosting transmission signal to the devices. On 5G connectivity, for instance, you could easily achieve speeds between 30 Mbps and 35 Mbps on average. 4G in India, on the other hand, delivers anything between 4 Mbps to 16 Mbps.
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Bharti Airtel has already started the upgrade process with the first round of installations in Kolkata and Bengaluru, and will soon include Pune, Chandigarh and Hyderabad. Chinese brands ZTE and Huawei are currently responsible for the MIMO hardware for Bharti Airtel in India. Swedish telecom hardware brand Ericsson is also in conversations with other telecom operators for 5G network solutions.
It is surprising that even with 4G LTE running on our smartphones, we still face the problem of call drops, even in metros. The data speed and stability still remains to be one of the major concerns for smartphone users. Moreover, the rural areas in the nation are still far behind to even get a stable data connectivity.
Will 5G be the solution to these problems? Only time can tell.