AHMEDABAD: The country’s first 5G<\/a> technology trials for rural broadband began on Thursday at Ajol village, with a base transceiver station (BTS) installed 17km away at Unava town in Gandhinagar<\/a> district.
A team including representatives of the department of telecom (DoT) and two private mobile service providers visited Ajol village to measure speeds. Officials recorded a 105.47 Mbps download speed and a 58.77 Mbps upload speed.
AHMEDABAD: The country’s first 5G<\/a> technology trials for rural broadband began on Thursday at Ajol village, with a base transceiver station (BTS) installed 17km away at Unava town in Gandhinagar<\/a> district.
A team including representatives of the department of telecom (DoT) and two private mobile service providers visited Ajol village to measure speeds. Officials recorded a 105.47 Mbps download speed and a 58.77 Mbps upload speed.
What applications of 5G technology are being aimed for within the Gujarat<\/a> licensed service area (LSA)?<\/strong>
Senior DoT officials said that among the technologies being tested are 360 degrees virtual reality content playback, a virtual-reality connected classroom, where student feels they are being attended to personally by their teacher and can interact one-on-one with their teacher via voice chat or exercises. Another area that is being tested is 5G immersive gaming and artificial intelligence assisted 360 degrees cameras with real-time video streams. Another potential use of 5G technology that the DoT plans to test is where end users can get a 360 degree experience, where the user can also identify objects and people in a given environment.
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<\/a> (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. The speed test was done on non-standalone 5G mode.
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