U 5G may soon feel the same in India and the US-thanks to Jio and T-Mobile

Copyright © HT Digital Streams Limit all rights reserved. Jatin Grover 5 min Read 10 Oct 2025, 08:21 pm ist in India, Jio is on 5G Standalone (SA) network, which works entirely on 5G technology, making it faster, more reliable and better for advanced features. (Pixabay) Summary currently, if you travel between the US and India, your smartphone may lose some of the features or high speeds you have at home. It is as if your premium plan is not fully working abroad. But with this new 5G SA Wandering, you can retain the benefits, enjoy the best speed service. Mobile users traveling from India to the US, or vice versa often experience the slowdown on the Internet and complain about the loss of some premium features embedded in their data plans when they are abroad. These irritants can be a thing of the past soon. T-Mobile of the US and Reliance Jio is working together to launch the world’s first global roaming system using the latest and fastest 5G technology called 5G Standalone (SA). Right now, if you travel between the US and India, your smartphone may lose some of the features or high speeds you have at home. It is as if your premium plan is not fully working abroad. But with this new 5G SA Wandering, you will be able to retain the benefits and enjoy the top speed service. T-Mobile chief network officer Ankur Kapoor told Mint: “We will announce the first global independent (SA) that runs around the 5G with Jio within a few weeks.” We are quite confident that we will actually make it available to all the clients before the end of this year. We are still kind of in the test phase, “Kapoor said. That means that if a user has a special 5G plan with Jio in India or T-Mobile in the US, which includes benefits such as faster data and better service-the benefits usually do not transfer. Customer treats when they go abroad, even if they paid for premium functions. Advanced features. Revenue streams for both Jio and T-Mobile with the upcoming 5G arrangement, Kapoor said: ‘The benefit is for the customers. Jio is the only operator in India that has 5g independent, while T -Mobile in the US has had architecture for more than two years. Telecommunications operator per market share in the country. All the new innovation that comes out is all done at 5g independently, and if you do not have it, you cannot enjoy the benefits. An example of this would be the network -cutting, “Kapoor said. 5G network -cutting means to create multiple virtual networks above a single physical 5G network -such as cutting a pizza into different pieces, where each cut is adjusted for a different need. Each cut can be adjusted to support different services with their own performance levels -such as speed,” network. It is live, nationwide and to the actual applications. With Jio Platforms’ Robust 5G SA Core and Network Cutting Platform (NSP), 10 active network discs are now in production, optimized for scale, performance and reliability, “Aayush Bhatnagar, Chief Technology Development Officer by Jio Platforms, said in a LinkedIn Post in July. Games, Internet of Things (IOT), Enterprise, Gaming and Mission Critical Services built. (high-definition) voice and stable 5G data to ensure instead of falling back to 4G, “says Para Kar, an independent analyst of the telecom. To the United States, we earn 5g, as if there is no tomorrow. He added that 95% of the T-Mobile traffic is at 5G. Access) Service Provider in the World, with a base of 7.4 million subscribers, “says Mukesh Ambani, chairman and managing director of Reliance Industries, in the revenue of the company in April-Junie. T-Mobile also started with Indian operators on how a collaboration on 6G can be investigated, especially as the new standards should be made. The Mint News app mode to get daily market updates.