Spectrum Auction 2021

[Lucifer96]

@Tejas01 dont rely to much on the bars on our phone. I get full networks bars on my phone but the speeds are still in the range of 10 to 20mbps on b3

in your case may be they deployed b8 900mhz in your area.

 

[Tejas01]

It was on B40 for sure when I brought my phone in November. Might have changed it to other frequency. I have Poco X3, so limited to B40 CA.

 

[RKhan21]

@Nithishsaba Any signs of Airtel B8 in ur place? Seems they're swapping B1,40 to Ericsson in RoTN Circle for B8 deployment

 

[RKhan21]

10MHz Upload Speed on Ericsson Uplink 256QAM.

 

[Tejas01]

For me CA intra band has now become available in Airtel.

 

[Nithishsaba]

@Nithishsaba Any signs of Airtel B8 in ur place? Seems they're swapping B1,40 to Ericsson in RoTN Circle for B8 deployment

No Signs of B8 here AFAIK but may be since i live in a rural area, it takes long time to deploy i think, But they had just repositioned the B3 and B40 antennas it seems, i am getting 30-40 Mbps on B40 and 100 ot 200kbps in B3 and now cannot make calls since the phone always latches to B3!!!

 

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[RKhan21]

i live in a rural area, it takes long time to deploy

No Rural only first they started B8 deployment. Check for ur eNB number of it starts from 7 it's Ericsson if it's 9 it's Huawei

 

[RKhan21]

they had just repositioned the B3 and B40 antennas

Then I believe Ericsson has swapped ur sites cuz they're the ones repositioning antenna sectors

 

[Nithishsaba]

No Rural only first they started B8 deployment. Check for ur eNB number of it starts from 7 it's Ericsson if it's 9 it's Huawei

My eNB is 944972, so I believe my nearest site is Huawei.

 

[RKhan21]

My eNB is 944972, so I believe my nearest site is Huawei

Yes it's Huawei but Check each bands might have different eNBs Ericsson isn't swapping all bands. It's 1,3 in Chennai and 1,40 swapped in RoTN

 

[Nithishsaba]

I've checked every band, its still Huawei here and no signs of B8, only some tuning happened in the antennas it seems.

 

[Gaurav_add]

Airtel speeds in band 1 without CA and that to no addition of band 40 20 MHz purchased in recent auction to ease network traffic.

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Airtel does some black magic 🪄 which is beyond my understanding.

 

[JamesHolden25]

@Gaurav_add

Less network load, as everyone is on Jio, so you're getting 50Mbps download.

 

[Gaurav_add]

@JamesHolden25 By the way jio is faster than Airtel

Source

 

[pillaicha]

@Gaurav_add can you post SIgnal power and sinr also from the devices being tested