Anybody experienced 5G network?

Getting 5G connectivity @ Thane, Wagle estate area and below are the speeds.
Device - Samsung S20 FE
Service Provider # Airtel

While taking the screenshot, network switched to 4G+

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Frankly, how will 5g benefit an normal user whose main purpose is streaming & such.
I beleive 5g should be reserved for army, medical purposes etc.
That is how it is marketed but it should be easy to jam 5G frequencies, so not sure how it is beneficial on the battlefield for autonomous vehicles. Similarly, for robotic surgery, you would probably look for a much more reliable connection.

The predator drones use satellites and require line of sight, so it is already possible and no one will actually need 5G for that purpose.
 
Jio 5g in my area, Hyderabad

Wanted to test and downloaded the whole Witcher 3 game.. Good speed.
Now it will be interesting to see what kind of tariff plans they come up with.
 

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The biggest pain with 5g in Delhi is that it is kinda zone focused. At most places I am stuck with 4g connection labelled as 5g whilst the true 5g is limited to selected parts of the city.
Here is an example of getting 4g labelled as 5g
 

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This 5G Craze Got me too. Purchased a JIO SIM . They Delivered it at Home. After Locking my Phone to Band77 for 3 nights.. I got 5G Invite.

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Never Even thought One could get such a Speed on Wireless network.o_O:angelic:. Can't even wait for Jio AirFibre... If they use Band258...and provide better pricing... then 5G can even distort the Home Fibre Connection market.
 
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My experience with 5G has been somewhat inconsistent, but I have to say, given how skeptical I was at the frenzied push by the telcos to adopt it - we can't even get near the 4G theoretical max, and now we're going for 5G? - I'm pretty impressed with the speed; it's been useful when I've needed to pull some large files from my home server. I'm also impressed with how fast it's spreading in my city (Kochi) - I saw it for the first time in December, and now I'm at least briefly getting a connection almost everywhere I go. That said, the connectivity can be pretty inconsistent: it is very sensitive to positioning at times, switching between LTE and 5G on a dime, and if I'm in motion (highway or metro) my data connection will be rendered completely useless because of all the switching back and forth - I have to disable 5G to be able to access the internet at all when that happens (or stop moving, I guess). I don't know if that's an inherent limitation of the technology, or if it's because my phone's firmware isn't optimized for it yet (Mi 11X).

By the way: did anyone else randomly get a 100 gigs of data from Airtel for free just out of the blue? I did, and I have no idea why. I did recently renew for a year, but it's never done that before. My best guess is that it's some sort of promotion that coincides with their 5G rollout, but I don't get why they wouldn't make that clearer if that is the case.
 
On a quick trip to Pondicherry last Sunday, I noticed that my Airtel had switched to 5G network there. Checked speed test and got ~170 Mbps download and ~28 Mbps upload speeds. Did not take a screenshot! :(
 
Anybody has problem on 5g where you don't get calls or sms? If someone calls me, they get out of network message and I get SMS that some number called me. If I try to buy something online and the phone is on 5g network, I don't get bank sms or OTP to finish the transaction. Now I have to force the phone in LTE only mode in settings before I do anything important on phone like pay bills or something.
 
Anybody has problem on 5g where you don't get calls or sms? If someone calls me, they get out of network message and I get SMS that some number called me. If I try to buy something online and the phone is on 5g network, I don't get bank sms or OTP to finish the transaction. Now I have to force the phone in LTE only mode in settings before I do anything important on phone like pay bills or something.
Phone model?
 
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