Vodafone Idea 5G Updates

[pillaicha]

On one hand they don’t have money and on the other, they are doing 5G trials.

5G isn’t only about mobile data. There are lots of uses of 5G. Even if Vi fails as a consumer company, their spectrum and infra can be used for V2X and M2M 5G applications for enterprises.

 

[phoenix10386]

This is correct. Sort of like TATA Teleservices.

 

[SVK]

Vi 5G download speeds hit 3.7Gbps in testing, more than 3x faster than Jio and Airtel’s | 91mobiles.com

Highlights Vodafone Idea conducted the first successful 5G trials in Pune and Gandhinagar The telecom operator said it achieved a peak 5G speed of 3.7Gbps on the mmWave spectrum band in Pune The 5G spectrum auctions are expected to happen early next year Telecom operators in India have begun the...

www.91mobiles.com

Some good news

 

[Pankaj]

Not much users on their network, they can easily achieve high speeds.

 

[mikrotik]

Network testing is performed in isolation. So it is level playing field for all 3 telcos. And VI has clearly won the testing phase.

 

[Kauban]

If I am not mistaken, Vodafone was allotted mmWave spectrum where others tested with the traditional 3.5 Ghz 5G spectrum, hence the high speeds. Practically, in commercial deployments users will not receive these high speeds even with mmWave deployments unless you live under the tower. These high frequencies are susceptible to even glass pane windows, let aside walls. Use cases can be stadiums, or areas with very high footfall.

 

[pillaicha]

They used 26Ghz band. These speeds are typical for the spectrum used. No surprises here. Just PR

 

[Lolita_Magnum]

Vi still seems to be throttling their network, never got higher than 40Mbps not matter what the time.

 

[Gaurav_add]

@Lolita_Magnum They cap their speeds at 40 mbps for prepaid for postpaid I am not sure about that. After they disabled 3g at my location i used to get instantaneous speed(for just one second of starting speed test) of 60 mbps and the average at best becomes 45 mbps not much after 5mhz of 3g spectrum being added to 4g.

 

[Lolita_Magnum]

It's a sad thing, I came to Vi with expectations that since there would be less congestion unlike Jio I would get better speeds, although 40 is also good enough, the network quality itself is not that good with poor Pings and an even worse routing. In metro cities although I never switched to 2G, it has been often when going out of town. Still believe they should not be capping since I get well above 100Mbps on airtel.