When 5G Comes to India

Reliance Jio is one of the leading telecom companies in the world and in the coming years shall offer not just 5G technology to all its users but also new augmented and virtual reality experiences on device

The Jio 5G ecosystem consists of chipsets and peripherals that are compatible with 5G. This shall be available by end of 2019, or early 2020. The 5G based products and devices are also in pipeline and shall be available to users for affordable prices starting from 2021.

Reliance Jio, partnering with Ericsson, showcased a live demo of what exactly 5G technology can bring to its users at the 2018 Indian Mobile Congress.

A prototype driverless car at Reliance Corporate Park (RCP) in Mumbai was controlled using 5G technology from about 1,388-km away at Aerocity grounds. This primarily demonstrates the efficiency and lower levels of latency which has the potential to connect entities in real time, irrespective of the distance.

There were also surveillance drones on display and an aerial disaster management vehicle SKYSHIP, with facial recognition features for rescue activities.

The Reliance Jio is planning to come 5G network in 2021 and other telecom company also planning to come 5G network in India

Managing Director Mukesh Ambani had this to say at the conference-

By 2020, India will be fully 4G connected, and by that time the country would be ready for 5G connectivity as well.

Fact About 5G Network:

what is 5G?

In the past, cellular activity has been divided by each generation’s data transmission speeds.

Each “G” also featured a break in the encoding method so that no past generation would be compatible with the next. With each new major development came a change to how wireless technology functioned:

1) 1G was strictly analog cellular. But it was a beginning.

2) 2G featured a mish-mash of protocols, including CDMA, GSM and TDMA. They were the first digital cellular technologies.

3) 3G, tech that is still the only way some rural households connect to cellular, increased speeds to a few megabits per second. That’s not super fast by today’s standard, but is still usable for many applications.

4) 4G is the protocol that today’s faster cellular technology utilizes, supporting speeds in the gigabits.

5) 5G, like all the Gs before it, supports higher data transfer speeds, but that’s not all. It also includes lower latency times (making it more responsive for things that need immediate feedback, like self-driving cars) and the ability to connect a whole world of additional devices, which should allow the Internet of Things to really thrive.

Real World Impacts of 5G:

It’s not always that easy to see how a faster cellular network is going to do much other than let people stream more YouTube videos without buffering, but the reality here is that 5G is a big deal. And, really, the biggest deal isn’t the speed (though that does help), it’s the way the technology works.

Above it was mentioned that latency times will be lower and the maximum number of connections higher. There’s a lot of technology that civilization has been waiting on that is going to be able to be more readily produced because of this breakthrough.

Going back to the example of the self-driving car, this is something that’s been in the works for years. While road tests are going reasonably well for a car that’s just learning how to drive itself, there have been a few very alarming accidents. Had the car been able to more quickly communicate with the network that helps it make decisions, there’s a chance at least some could have been averted.

The Internet of Things is another area where a faster, more flexible network would make a huge difference. Telemedicine has been slow to catch on, despite the technology being in place and the doctors being willing to give it a try. Sometimes the problem comes in when trying to transfer data that’s image-intense, like MRI results. Emergency medicine is an area where telemedicine could make a huge difference to wait times and care levels, but the doctor on the other side of that screen has to be able to access tests and labs on the fly.

Not only would 5G make it so your fridge could more easily reach you to remind you to buy milk, but it would also allow that connected doctor to save lives in emergency rooms that might be hundreds or thousands of miles apart in the same night.