‘Purchased this cellphone simply to make use of 5G’: Vijay Shekhar Sharma complains to Airtel, Google over 5G companies

Indian digital funds and monetary companies firm Paytm’s CEO Vijay Shekhar Sharma, on Sunday, stated that he was unable to make use of 5G within the nationwide capital New Delhi, regardless of shopping for a brand new 5G cellphone.

Sharma additionally stated that he purchased a brand new Google smartphone ‘Pixel 6a’ solely to make use of 5G companies rolled out by internet-provided Airtel however that didn’t assist.

Sharma, in a tweet, stated, “Whats up @Airtel_Presence, even the Google Pixel 6a is just not exhibiting 5G community choice in Delhi. All upgrades finished and I purchased this cellphone simply to make use of 5G!” He additionally tagged Airtel Cares, the telco’s buyer assist deal with.

Paytm CEO additionally connected a screenshot in his tweet, which exhibits that the 5G community was not displayed as the popular community sort.

Furthermore, in one other tweet, Sharma defined that this was due to Google, the smartphone producer that’s but to launch a software program replace for 5G assist.

Sharma, tagging Google in one other tweet, stated, “Ouch! Whats up @GoogleIndia do you assume India ought to get 5G handset software program improve quickly? @GooglePixel_US”

Paytm CEO’s tweet went viral throughout the social platform, with different individuals becoming a member of in and elevating the identical challenge.

One other Twitter consumer Mudit Mathur replied to Paytm CEO’s tweet, and stated “The replace will come solely in December!” He additionally connected a cropped picture of a dialog with Google assist that reads “Our present goal is to launch 5G as a part of our December function drop.”

Airtel launched its 5G web companies on October 6 and have become the primary telecom operator to formally roll out 5G companies in India. It has launched Airtel 5G Plus service for 8 cities – Delhi, Mumbai, Chennai, Bengaluru, Hyderabad, Siliguri, Nagpur and Varanasi. The corporate additionally claims that its customers gained’t want to vary their SIM card as the prevailing one will now be 5G-enabled.

However, Reliance Jio is rolling out 5G service in 4 cities together with – Delhi, Kolkata, Mumbai and Varanasi. Reliance Jio has additionally launched the Jio 5G Welcome Supply underneath which eligible customers get limitless 5G knowledge and 1gbps knowledge pace freed from price till the corporate broadcasts 5G plans in India.

Right here’s easy methods to test in case your cellphone has 5G connectivity or not:

1. Go to the settings app in your cellphone
2. Click on on the ‘Wi-Fi & Community’ choice
3. Go to the ‘SIM & Community’ choice
4. An inventory of all applied sciences will seem underneath the ‘Most well-liked community sort’ choice
5. In case your cellphone helps 5G, it is going to be listed with different companies like 2G/3G/4G/5G.