Telecom service provider Bharti Airtel has deployed additional 21.6 Mhz spectrum in Bengal making it the holder of the largest spectrum bank of 65 MHz in the circle.<\/p>\n
\u201c10 MHz spectrum has been added in the 2300 band, 5 Mhz in the 2100 band, 3.8 MHz in the 1800 band while 2.8 MHz has been added in the 900 band,\u201d Airtel said in a release on Thursday.<\/p>\n
\u201cWith its diverse spectrum holdings across 2300\/2100\/1800\/900 bands, the company is well positioned to serve the growing demand for high speed data services and its network is fully ready for 5G,\u201d it said.<\/p>\n
Along with better coverage inside homes and buildings in cities and urban areas, the deployment will offer better coverage along highways and rail routes as well as increase footprint in villages, the telco said.<\/p>\n
\u201cWith the acquisition of 21.6 Mhz spectrum for Bengal in the recently concluded auctions and deployment of 4G using spectrum in the superior 900 Mhz band, Airtel customers in Bengal will now be able to experience improved 4G data speeds and HD quality calling even indoors,\u201d said Siddharth Sharma, CEO \u2013 West Bengal & Odisha, Bharti Airtel said.<\/p>\n
\u201cWith the largest spectrum bank of 65 Mhz in Bengal, Airtel is well positioned to meet the surging demand for high speed data,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n
Airtel has over 20 million customers in Bengal and its network covers more than 98% population of the state.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Telecom service provider Bharti Airtel has deployed additional 21.6 Mhz spectrum in Bengal making it the holder of the largest spectrum bank of 65 MHz in the circle. \u201c10 MHz spectrum has been added in the 2300 band, 5 Mhz in the 2100 band, 3.8 MHz in the 1800 band while 2.8 MHz has been added in the 900 band,\u201d Airtel said in a release on Thursday. \u201cWith its diverse spectrum holdings across 2300\/2100\/1800\/900 bands, the company is well positioned to serve the growing demand for high speed data services and its network is fully ready for 5G,\u201d it said. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-798687","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-telecom"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/798687","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=798687"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/798687\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=798687"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=798687"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=798687"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}