Vodafone Idea inches closer to 5G launches, partners with Motorola for the same

Vodafone Idea (Vi) today announced a partnership with Motorola India. As a part of this partnership, the two companies are working together over deployment of Vodafone Idea’s 5G network in India. The telecom giant today said that it has successfully tested its 5G network over Motorola’s portfolio of 5G smartphones. The company also said that this testing happened in New Delhi over 3350 to 3400 MHz spectrum bands on Vi 5G network.

The two companies also shared a list of all of the Motorola’s 5G smartphones that support Vi’s 5G smartphone. The list includes — Motorola Edge 30 Ultra, Motorola Edge 30 Fusion, Moto G62 5G, Motorola Edge 30, Moto G82 5G, Motorola Edge 30 Pro, Moto G71 5G, Moto G51 5G, Motorola Edge 20, Motorola Edge 20 Pro, and Motorola Edge 20 Fusion smartphones.

“We are happy to partner with Motorola in one more step towards our 5G roll out. We believe that the partnership will help develop the 5G device ecosystem, helping more Vi customers upgrade to a superior 5G ready smartphone in time for service roll out,” Vodafone Idea CMO, Avneesh Khosla, said on the occasion.

This announcement indicates that Vodafone Idea is inching closer to the roll out of its 5G services in India. However, the company is yet to announce the date of roll out of its 5G services in the country yet.

5G in India

For the unversed, Prime Minister Narendra Modi officially launched 5G services in India in October last month. Shortly after, both Reliance Industries’ Jio and Bharti Enterprise’ Airtel started deploying their 5G services in cities across the country. As of now, Reliance Jio has rolled out its standalone 5G network, dubbed as True 5G services, in 226 cities across the country with Haridwar in Uttarakhand being the latest one to join the list.

Bharti Airtel, on the other hand, has so far deployed its 5G services in 77 cities across the country with Bhopal, Ujjain and Gwalior being the latest cities to join the list.

It is worth noting that both Airtel and Jio are offering their 5G services at 4G tariffs in India. While Jio says that it will complete 5G roll out by the end of December 2023, Airtel says that it will roll out its 5G Plus network across the country by the end of March 2024.