Reliance Jio is supposedly scheduling to promote their 5G services of their brand in year 2020. Financial Chronicle stated that Jio’s 5G services will be ready by April next year, six months after the spectrum auction. Handsets of Jio 5G will be all set for sale as the services will be accessible to the customers. Reliance Jio is anticipated to promote 5G-based feature phones.
Even though 5G network will be obtainable in Europe and US, as there are on 5G smartphone ready in the market. But this scenario will change as there are many companies planning to launch 5G phone in this year. First 5G phones will be revealed at the Mobile World Congress 2019.
Huawei has declared the foldable phone with the support of 5G. Samsung has anticipated launching their foldable phone with the support of 5G whereas other key players like Xiaomi and OnePlus are also projected to come up with 5G smartphones. 5G handsets are supposed to introduce with the superior price tag which are leaning towards accepting the technology.
India is projecting to have 5G services in 2020 as government is planning to organize spectrum auction. As per the research, Telco’s wants to push the auction because of the absence of 5G ready devices in the region.
The strategy of Reliance Jio for 5G services is similar to the services of LTE mobile. Reliance Jio announced the aggressive data plans and unlimited free voice calls which obliged rivals to introduce the same plans for their customers. It also launched JioPhone 2 and JioPhone smart feature phones. At this moment, Jio is having about 290 million subscribers in India.
5G handsets of Jio are estimated to be cost-effective than the finest handsets that will be announced in the coming year.
Airtel has also started working on the 5G network. Telecom operator has validated their 5G platform in India and showed the “AR Holographic Communication” by using 5G New Radio non-standalone architecture.