Telenor India on Tuesday launched of a pilot roll-out of high speed 4G services for its customers in Anand, making it the first city under Telenor 4G in Gujarat.
The pilot in Anand follows the successful test pilot of Telenor's 4G services across its six circles in Varanasi, Vizag, Amravati, Agra, Lucknow, Ranchi, Vijaywada, Tenali, Eluru and Bhimavaram.
"The demand for high speed internet services is growing rapidly and the penetration of 4G handsets is increasing. With 100 per cent sites being ready in the city of Anand with advanced equipment and efficient spectral development, the company is geared up to offer superior speed and better experience at affordable price," said Rituraj Kalita, Circle Business Head - Gujarat, Telenor India.
Telenor announced the modernisation of its entire network in 2015 which should be completed by 2017. Over 10,000 of the total network sites have already been modernised as of now, the company stated.
In Gujarat of the 3,850 sites, 1,600 have already been modernised with new equipments. To make its network future ready, Telenor has deployed Lean GSM solutions that improves the network capacity and coverage by nearly 25 per cent using the same spectrum resources and provides superior voice and data experience, it added.