5G Ready: Smartfren and Telkomsel Win 5G Frequency Auction

Some time ago Kominfo has reopened the 2.3GHz frequency auction for 5G which was canceled in 2020 last year.

It is known that in fact all cellular operators in Indonesia participated in this auction in mid-March. However, only Smartfren, Telkomsel and XL Axiata submitted the selection application documents and passed the administrative evaluation.

The final result of the auction was that only Telkomsel and Smartfren succeeded in buying up the 2.3GHz frequency auction.

According to information circulating, Telkomsel gets 20MHz, while Smartfren gets 10Mhz. Both parties have also confirmed the truth of the information.

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So, what exactly are the benefits of 5G networks?

• Stream and cloud activities become smoother

Some of you, maybe don't really care about the 5G network, because even on a 4G network, at least you have enough.

But for some people who like streaming activities and do a lot of things with the help of the cloud, the presence of the 5G network is a very important moment.

With the help of the 5G network, you can stream videos up to 4K quality or more without having to worry buffering. You can also upload and download any files from cloud or other sources in much less time.

The era of carrying external hard drives or large-capacity flash drives, at least will soon be replaced by the era of cloud storage when the 5G network is officially launched in Indonesia.

• Downloads and uploads speed up many times over

How much time do you spend, for example, to download the Genshin Impact game on the Google Play/App Store complete with all data downloads in-game-his?

If you only rely on the 4G network to carry out these activities, which may usually be at speeds of around 10Mbps to 50Mbps (rarely for Indonesian cellular operators to get the maximum speed for 4G networks at 100Mbps), of course it still takes a bit longer, right? What's more, you know that the Genshin Impact game requires a file of more than 10GB to be downloaded the first time you play it.

So, what happens if the 5G network is available and optimal in Indonesia? Let's just say that your download/upload speed reaches 1Gbps on a 5G network. So, how much time did you spend downloading more than 10GB of the complete Genshin Impact game file so that it can be played? Yes that's right! Just seconds!

But all of that must also be supported by technology read and write on your smartphone or device's internal storage. At least to support optimal 5G networks, you need at least UFS 2.1 storage technology on your smartphone, or at least use a SATA SSD for your laptop/PC's internal storage.

If you are still using eMMC technology on your smartphone or HDD on your PC/laptop, then the speeding 5G network will be felt bottleneck, especially when you are in the activity of downloading / downloading.

• Supports faster development of AIoT technology

Many of you may have used AIoT products from various brands that have been actively offering their products lately. Some of them like Xiaomi, Realme, Bardi, etc.

We also want to guess, some of you must have used smart TV products, smart lamps, CCTV, and other AIoT products in your homes, right?

Well, the 5G network can support all of your AIoT devices to work optimally.

How could that be? Of course you can, because with an optimal 5G network, all commands that are carried out remotely on your AIoT product will have response time which is shorter/better, allowing you to carry out commands in more realtime than usual.

For example, you can adjust the CCTV position in your home from a distance and monitor/stream and direct 2-way communication in much more realtime than usual.

For those of you who have used/are currently using CCTV at home/office, surely right now if the network you are using is not very good, then CCTV will have difficulty implementing all of its features in realtime, right?

For example, there will be a delay that is quite annoying when you communicate in 2 directions with CCTV if the activity is carried out on a bad or unstable network.

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