Airtel demonstrates India’s first Cloud Gaming experience on a 5G network
Bhubaneswar: Marking yet another industry first on 5G, Bharti Airtel Limited (“Airtel”), India’s leading provider of telecommunications services, today said that it has successfully conducted India’s first cloud gaming session in a 5G environment. The demonstration was conducted in Manesar (Gurgaon) as part of the ongoing 5G trials using spectrum allotted by the Department of Telecom (Government of India). For the 5G cloud gaming demonstration, Airtel partnered with two of India’s leadinggamers –Mortal (Naman Mathur) and Mamba (Salman Ahmad). Leveraging the gaming technology platform from Blacknut, a sprint racing challenge on Asphalt was unveiled for Mortal and Mamba to put their gaming skills to test in a blazing fast and ultra-low latency 5G environment. Watch the demo here: https://youtu.be/TEVrt7bCUE4
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. We can say with confidence that 5G will truly unlock the online gaming scene in India and massify by creating opportunities to build and publish games out of India and bringing a lot of talented gamers from small towns to the mainstream. Thank you Airtel for giving us this wonderful opportunity.”
Mortal and Mamba enjoyed the thrilling session on smartphones connected to 3500 MHz high capacity spectrum band. The 5G test network delivered speeds in excess of 1 Gbps and latency in the range of 10 milliseconds. Cloud gaming allows users to stream and play games in real time without having to download these or invest in gaming hardware.
Randeep Sekhon, CTO, Bharti Airtel added: “Cloud gaming will be one of the biggest use cases of 5G thanks to the combination of high speed and low latency. After delivering India’s first 5G demo over a test network, we are thrilled to conduct this exciting 5G gaming session. Imagine enjoying real time gaming on the go with someone sitting in another part of the world. 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.”