India, Jan. 28 -- While everyone expected Reliance Jio to first launch 5G services in India, Bharti Airtel, on Thursday (January 28), announced that it has become the first telecom service provider in India to successfully "demonstrate and orchestrate" live 5G services.

The demonstration took place in the city of Hyderabad, where the company used its existing liberalised spectrum in the 1800 MHz band through the NSA (non-standalone) network technology to concurrently run 5G and 4G network within the same spectrum block.

The company believes that demonstration has validated the 5G readiness of Airtel's network across all domains - Radio, Core and Transport - and underlined its technological capabilities.

Airtel claims its 5G network is ...