a media Report According to , Airtel plans to refarm 4G spectrum in the 2,300 Hz, 1,800 MHz and 900 Hz bands. The company uses Non-Standalone (NSA) architecture in which the 5G network is installed over existing 4G coverage. Reframing is the process of reallocating existing network bands that are under- or unused to support new technologies. This strategy can be implemented in B and C circles. These circles include Punjab, Uttar Pradesh-East, Uttar Pradesh-West, Haryana, Kerala, Rajasthan, Madhya Pradesh, West Bengal, Bihar, North-Eastern States, Assam, Jammu and Kashmir and Himachal Pradesh.
Recently, Airtel had paid spectrum dues of Rs 3,626 crore to the Telecom Department. This spectrum was purchased by the company in 2016. Bharti Airtel had to pay an interest rate of more than eight percent for this outstanding amount. The company had said that it has paid spectrum dues of more than Rs 28,000 crore in this calendar year.
Bharti Airtel has rapidly expanded its 5G network. Recently the company has given a contract worth millions of dollars to Finland’s telecom equipment maker Nokia. Nokia said that this deal includes using equipment from its 5G AirScale portfolio. Airtel plans to increase its coverage and capacity. For this, this contract has been given to Nokia. This also includes modernizing Airtel’s existing 4G network with multiband radios and baseband equipment. These equipment can also support 5G network. Earlier this month, Airtel had said that more than 8 billion spam calls have been warned on its network. About two and a half months ago, the company had implemented a solution related to Artificial Intelligence (AI) to deal with the problem of spam calls and messages.
