{"id":311,"date":"2022-02-07T19:27:59","date_gmt":"2022-02-07T19:27:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.topic.lk\/?p=311"},"modified":"2022-02-07T19:28:04","modified_gmt":"2022-02-07T19:28:04","slug":"airtel-commences-5g-trials-records-highest-speeds-in-sri-lanka","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/topic.lk\/311\/","title":{"rendered":"Airtel commences 5G trials; records highest speeds in Sri Lanka"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Airtel Lanka demonstrated the 5G readiness of its network as it conducted LIVE 5G trials over a commercial network and recorded speeds of over 1.9Gbps &#8211; the highest speed ever recorded in the country.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u201cSri Lanka is a market that has been defined by pioneeringtechnology adoption and the investments we are making today into ramping up our 5G capabilities will lay the digital foundations for Sri Lanka\u2019s next chapter of growth. As witnessed today, we were able to record the highest internet speed in the country, and will continue to break records as we move towards the future,\u201d Airtel Lanka Managing Director and CEO, Ashish Chandra stated.<\/p>\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/topic.lk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/jhj.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-313\" width=\"700\" height=\"396\" srcset=\"https:\/\/topic.lk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/jhj-300x171.jpg 300w, https:\/\/topic.lk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/jhj-150x85.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 700px) 100vw, 700px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u201cOur high-speed network will have huge impact on livesof our customer by empowering them and is in line with our vision to provide to every citizen of our country a world class network at most affordable price.\u00a0 It is a proud moment for everyone at Airtel,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Airtel 5G is fully equipped to deliver up to 10 times more speed, 10 times lower latency and 100 times concurrency compared to existing technologies. Building on the company\u2019s significant investments towards network upgrades, the commencement of 5G trials puts Airtel among the world\u2019s latest in mobile technology and network innovations.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Airtel announced that its world-class 4G infrastructure around the island is 5G ready, thus facilitating a seamless transition to the next generation of networking.Airtel was able to do this through trial frequency allocations in 3500 MHz bandwith the NSA (Non Stand Alone) network technology.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">This demonstration has proved the 5G readiness of Airtel&#8217;s network across all domains.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u00a0<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Airtel Lanka demonstrated the 5G readiness of its network as it conducted LIVE 5G trials over a commercial network and recorded speeds of over 1.9Gbps &#8211; the highest speed ever recorded in the country. \u201cSri Lanka is a market that has been defined by pioneeringtechnology adoption and the investments we are making today into ramping [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":312,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-311","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-biz_news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/topic.lk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/311","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/topic.lk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/topic.lk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/topic.lk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/topic.lk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=311"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/topic.lk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/311\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":314,"href":"https:\/\/topic.lk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/311\/revisions\/314"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/topic.lk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/312"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/topic.lk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=311"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/topic.lk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=311"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/topic.lk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=311"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}