Bharti Airtel will launch 4G services in Bangalore within 30 days
India’s largest telecom service provider, Bharti Airtel said on Tuesday that it will launch its new 4G services in Bangalore within the next 30 days.
Bharti Airtel CEO Sanjay Kapoor said that the company will launch the new 4G services in the city in the next 30 days and it has appointed Huawei as network equipment vendor for the services in the city.
The country’s largest phone carrier and other players have shelled out as much as 385.43 billion rupees for acquiring fourth-generation (4G) wireless broadband spectrum from the government in an auction that was organized in 2010.
Bharti was successful in winning 4G spectrum in four of the country’s 22 telecoms zones in the auction. The company paid 33.14 billion rupees for spectrum in the Maharashtra, Karnataka, Kolkata and Punjab zones.
The company will launch its 4G LTE (long term evolution) network, which offers high speed wireless broadbrand service with high upload and download speeds to the customers. 4G allows download speeds of “upto 100 mbps’’ compared to downloads speeds of up to 21 mbps offered currently through 3G services.