Carrier Aggregation on Airtel 4G LTE

[Crazyguy030601]

In Kolkata, Vodafone has the most amount of spectrum, but they've still kept 3G running, which is totally a wastage of 2100Mhz. Idk whose idea it was to deploy 5Mhz in LTE and keep the rest for 3G. Band 8 LTE is nowhere to be seen as well and their VoLTE is still rather buggy.

Airtel also needs more spectrum. They've gotten 30Mhz band 40, 5Mhz band 3 and 3Mhz band 8 deployed, which is doing fine now, but with the number of people switching over, it'll soon come down to a crawl.

Jio is the absolute worst. The situation is so bad that sometimes voice starts breaking and calls don't go through. Their coverage is also pretty bad inside hospitals and malls, even with 850Mhz. Dunno what they're playing at.

 

[spsp63]

VIL is improving their network in Kerala before i used to get 8-15 mbps on Band 3 20mhz and now they added band 8 5mhz and started Aggregating them now the speeds have been improved

i am waiting same for navi mumbai...because vodfn stp 3g in mumbai but there 3g still live in my navi mumbai...jio is worst

 

[RummaanKhan]

@spsp92 Yeah.. Jio and Airtel are shit in Mumbai. During peak times Jio atleast works for Normal browsing but in Airtel even calls on VoLTE isn't getting connected.

 

[amalrakoff]

Yeah same here Airtel is the worst upload speeds are so shit that I can't even use WhatsApp at peak hours

 

[Crazyguy030601]

I've finally started getting Airtel LTE inside my house, courtesy of band 8.

Speeds are rather bad, but at least I can make calls over VoLTE now

 

[socrates]

My Jio speeds now Speedtest by Ookla - The Global Broadband Speed Test

It goes between 15-50 Mbps

 

[Deleted member 75747]

For me Airtel is very good even in Peak hours Speed very good on all bands.
B1 10mhz

B3 10mhz

B40 10mhz

B40 20mhz

 

[philip]

Does anyone know why the govt is keeping high reserve price for the Band 700mhz. Why that band is considered as premium as compared to many other 4g bands? Does 700 mhz band has any specific advantages over other bands like in the form of high coverage/bandwidth etc?

 

[vignesh_venkatesan]

@philip 700 Mhz has a relatively wider coverage area and most importantly it has the best indoor coverage.

 

[Deleted member 75747]

@philip and other advnatage is that it has 4 blocks as b12,b13,b14 and b17.