Airtel 5G SA Approaching Roll out for Mobile users?

[Rickysin]

Latency is awesome on SA. I get unloaded latency of 10-12 ms and loaded of 30-50 ms

 

[Kyle Crane]

tho is there actual end user benefit of 5G SA vs NSA to end user on Airtel sim?

 

[Kyle Crane]

is it really true that 5G SA uses less power on handset? i hope its not a minute difference

 

[Hitori_Abhito7]

@Kyle Crane greater speed, lesser penetration, better handoff between 4g and 5g

 

[Kyle Crane]

so it does have its own advantages

 

[Lolita_Magnum]

Battery improvement is massive provided you have decent range at all times (at least -90 to -99 dBm).
This is because, unlike SA, NSA requires your phone to remain connected to 4G and 5G reception to maintain complete connectivity.
However, this does not translate well into the real world, as phones, when roaming about on NSA, default to 4G exclusively.

 

[Kyle Crane]

@Lolita_Magnum i wanna do a irl test for a month with this

And using Jio 5G instead of Vi 5G

Let’s see if I can make that happen

 

[Kyle Crane]

as per Parag Kar on Youtube
The reason why Airtel couldnt deploy 5G SA was because Airtel doesnt have 700mhz specutrum ie crucial for carpet to carpet 4G and 5G coverage and the user experience would be bad between 5G and 4G handoff

now lets see what actually Airtel is doing to mitigate this problem

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[Lucifer_King]

They will most definitely reframe 900 to 5G. Else it's difficult for them

 

[Kyle Crane]

Yeah airtel had announced 5G Refarm back in 2024 actually

Airtel re-farms its mid-band spectrum to meet the exponential growth in 5G traffic

Airtel re-farms its mid-band spectrum to meet the exponential growth in 5G traffic

www.airtel.in