5G services started in India

Reliance Jio has started providing 5G services to select customers in parts of 4 cities – Delhi, Mumbai, Kolkata and Varanasi, whereas, Bharti Airtel has also started providing 5G services in parts of 8 cities -- Delhi, Mumbai, Varanasi, Bengaluru, Chennai, Hyderabad, Nagpur, and Siliguri to all customers with 5G handsets. 5G users will get up to 600 mbps speed during the launch phase and phones are expected to work at par with PCs.

With the roll out of 5G services in India the subscribers of both Reliance Jio and Bharti Airtel will not require to replace existing sim for availing 5G services. Jio has said that its customers will continue to avail 5G services under “Beta trial” until the network coverage of a city is substantially complete.

The company has promised access to unlimited 5G data with speed of up to 1 gigabit per second. However, it will continue to remain in the range of 200-300 mbps after full roll out.

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This means a two-hour high-definition movie which is generally around 6 GB file size can be downloaded in 1 minute 25 seconds and a 4K movie in about 3 minutes at a top speed of 600 mbps. Customers buying 5G handsets or having a 5G-enabled handsets will see 5G option in their network setting and they will need to select it for availing the service.

The mobile network display on their device will start showing 5G instead of 4G when 5G will be available in their locality. 5G will democratise computing power.

If you have a 5G device, whether it's a phone or a computer, you want to run an application that requires a lot of computing power. 5G will provide that connection to the cloud (computers) that allows you to tap on demand the computation of the cloud as if both were the same computer.

Going forward, the Mobile devices power consumption will go up with 5G usage as more cloud-based applications like gaming will start. Fortunately, there is the availability of a high-capacity battery along with a fast-charging facility already in the market. A report said that 5G is expected to account for nearly 40% of all subscriptions by 2027 in India.