India's largest operator, Bharti Airtel Ltd. (Mumbai: BHARTIARTL) in collaboration with Huawei Technologies Co. Ltd. has the country's first Long Term Evolution Time Division Duplex handheld device, Ascend P1 smartphone, today at an event.
Bharti Airtel had launched 4G services at Kolkata and Bengaluru earlier this year. However, the services were launched using the dongle device. This is the first handheld device available for 4G network.
"It [4G services] is taking time to ramp up. But it definitely has a wow offer. Right now we are able to offer 40 Mbps of download and 20 MBps of upload speed. The icing on the cake is that the customer pays us around $20 ARPU," says Sanjay Kapoor, Chief Executive Officer, India and South Asia, Bharti Airtel.
This is a significant step in the development of the LTE ecosystem.Powered with Qualcomm Snapdragon S4 processor, Huawei Ascend P1 LTE, is India's first 4G device. India follows LTE TDD version so the ecosystem is slow to develop and not many devices are available. As of now, Bharti is the only one to offer 4G services. Other operators are likely to launch 4G services soon.
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