Billionaire Mukesh Ambani’s Reliance Jio has installed roughly 1 lakh telecom towers—nearly five times as many as its closest rival—to roll out India’s fastest and deepest 5G telecom network and offer ultra-high speed internet. According to the most recent DoT data.
According to the Department of Telecommunications’ (DoT) National EMF Portal’s most recent daily status report, Jio has installed 99,897 base transceiver stations across two of its own frequencies (700 MHz and 3,500 MHz). In comparison Bharti Airtel has 22,219 BTS.
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Jio has three cell sites per base station, compared to Airtel’s two, according to a March 23 report. Faster speed is a result of more cell sites and towers. Ookla, a leader in network analysis and connectivity insights, reported on February 28 that Jio’s best median speed is 506 Mbps (megabytes per second), compared to Airtel’s 268 Mbps.
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“5G has been in place in India for over four months and already it’s having a tremendous impact on the state of mobile in the country,” Ookla said in the report.
“Speedtest Intelligence data shows that median download speeds across India increased by 115 percent since before the 5G launch, from a 13.87 Mbps median download speed in September 2022 to 29.85 Mbps in January 2023.” 5G performance has increased across early 5G adopters in most of the telecom circles, Kolkata achieved the fastest median 5G download speeds in January 2023 at above 500 Mbps.
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“Jio experienced a top median 5G download speed of 506.25 Mbps in Kolkata, while Airtel of 268.89 Mbps in Delhi,” it said. Airtel and Jio have ambitious targets in terms of the 5G network rollout. “From 5G networks’ inception, 5G availability across 5G-capable devices has steadily increased, reaching 8.0 percent for Airtel and 5.1 percent for Jio,” it said.
India is the second-largest Internet market in the world, just behind China, with over 500 million users. In October 2022, 5G telecom services were introduced.
“Jio’s USD 25 billion investment seems to be paying off. In January 2023 Jio achieved median 5G download speeds above 400 Mbps across ten telecom circles. Jio’s True 5G network is based on a 5G Standalone (5G SA), which doesn’t rely on a 4G LTE network. “While Jio’s initial 5G speeds fluctuated massively – from low single-digit to speeds well above 800 Mbps, which pointed to the operator recalibrating its networks, Jio’s 5G performance has stabilized over the past four months. In January 2023, Jio’s 5G early adopters experienced speeds ranging from 246.49 Mbps median download speed in Himachal Pradesh to 506.25 Mbps in Kolkata,” Ookla said.
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In comparison, “Airtel’s 5G early adopters experienced speeds ranging from a 78.13 Mbps median download speed in Kolkata to 268.89 Mbps in Delhi,” it added.
The largest telecom operator in India, Reliance Jio, would roll out 5G at the fastest speed in the world, according to Akash Ambani, chairman of Reliance Jio, who made the announcement at a post-budget webinar hosted by the Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology last month.
His father, Mukesh Ambani, is the head of Reliance Industries, which includes Reliance Ji’o as a step-down company. According to a statement made by Bharti Airtel on Friday, consumers can access its lightning-fast 5G service in 500 locations across the country. “Airtel expanded its network to 235 cities, making it one of the biggest rollouts ever,”