Airtel today announced the launch of its cutting-edge 5G services in October 2022 in 8 cities in India.
An official from Airtel after the culmination of an event in this regard in Kashmir capital Srinagar said that Airtel’s services are live across all states and union territories of India with over 50 million customers as on October 1st, 2023.
He said that Airtel 5G Plus in Jammu & Kashmir Airtel’s 5G network are available across all 22 districts of Jammu & Kashmir and has about 1 million customers on its superfast 5G network.
Airtel 5G is available across all key tourist locations and monuments in J&K including Jammu & Kashmir and Ladakh, Leh, Zanskar Valley, Kargil, Dal Lake, Srinagar, Mughal Gardens Shalimar Bagh and Nishat, Gulmarg, Pahalgam, Shri Mata Vaishno Devi, Mansar Lake Bahu Fort, Jammu, Raghunath Temple, Jammu, Nubra Valley, Sonamarg, Patnitop, Pangong Lake, Shri Amarnath Cave.
While talking to news agency Kashmir News Trust about the advantages, the official said that Airtel 5G Plus gives ultra fast speed upto 20-30 times of 4G speeds, super-fast call connection and clear voice experience, best high definition video streaming, and it conducive for the environment and above all the customers, having 5G enabled mobile phones, can switch to Airtel 5G Plus in a one go. He said that no SIM change is needed and existing Airtel 4G SIM is 5G enabled and further existing 4G data plans will work on 5G until roll-out is complete.
The official said that to activate 5G services, the customer just needs to change handset settings. He needs to go to the settings tab get to connections or Mobile Network and select the 5G network mode. [KNT]