Airtel Augments 4G Network With LTE 2100 Technology In J&K

Srinagar: Airtel, India’s leading telecommunications services provider, Friday said that it has further upgraded its 4G network in Jammu & Kashmir with the deployment of LTE 2100 technology that will significantly enhance the network experience for its smartphone customers.

“With the fast declining 3G handset base and customers upgrading to 4G smartphones, the rollout of 4G in the superior 2100Mhz spectrum band, Airtel will now offer additional high speed data capacity for 4G and also drive a lot of voice traffic on VoLTE to serve its customers,” a company spokesperson said.

Manu Sood, Hub CEO- Upper North, Airtel said, “In our continuous endeavour to deliver best-in-class network experience to our customers, the deployment of LTE 2100 in Jammu & Kashmir will further augment Airtel 4G quality and experience.LTE 2100 will further boost the network capacity and significantly improve outdoor coverage especially during intracity/ intercity transit for 4G smartphone customers.”

Airtel serves over 5.46 million customers in Jammu & Kashmir and has deployed advanced network technologies and tools such as 4G Advanced and Carrier Aggregation to step up high speed network capacity and coverage. The company is committed to further invest in its network under its Project Leap program.