Bharti Airtel has conducted India’s first cloud-gaming session in a 5G environment. The gaming session was demonstrated at Manesar, Gurugram, as part of its ongoing 5G trials using spectrum allotted by the Department of Telecom. For the 5G cloud gaming demonstration, Airtel partnered with two of India’s leading gamers Mortal (Naman Mathur) and Mamba (Salman Ahmad).
The 5G test network delivered speeds in excess of 1 Gbps and latency in the range of 10 milliseconds. Describing their experience Mortal and Mamba said: “We were totally blown away. This was high end PC and console-quality gaming experience on a smartphone.”
With the advent of 5G networks, cloud gaming is expected to become the new normal as users will be able to enjoy a high-end console-like gaming experience on smartphones and tablets while on the move. Randeep Sekhon, CTO, Bharti Airtel said, “This is just the beginning of an exciting digital future that Airtel will enable for its customers as we prepare to roll-out 5G in India.”
