Airtel, Chinese firm launch 4G services

services will also be available in Pune in western India, Chandigarh in northern India and Bangalore in southern India soon. The high speed service was inaugurated by union Communications Minister Kapil Sibal.
A successor to the 3G and 2G families, 4G is expected to be five times quicker than 3G services. It would offer services such as high-definition mobile TV and video conferencing. Airtel, which had bagged BWA spectrum in four telecom circles — Kolkata, Maharastra, Punjab and Karnataka — for 33 billion rupees (660 million US dollars) in 2010, selected ZTE.
The 4G service has the potential to provide a download speed of around 100 Megabits per second when a user is on the move, and can go up to 1 Gigabits per second at a fixed location. The telecom major has appointed Nokia Siemens Networks (NSN) for building and operating network in the Maharashtra circle using TD-LTE — one of the 4G technologies. — Xinhua.

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