The first 5G technology trials for rural broadband in India began on Thursday in Gujarat's Ajol hamlet, with a base transceiver station (BTS) erected 17 kilometres distant in Gandhinagar's Unava town. A team from the Department of Telecommunications (DoT) and two private mobile service providers visited the area to test speeds, registering a download speed of 105.47 Mbps and an upload speed of 58.77 Mbps. 360 degrees virtual reality content playback, a virtual reality linked classroom, 5G immersive gaming, and artificial intelligence aided 360 degrees cameras with real-time video feeds are among the technologies being evaluated, according to top DoT officials
