Google to enable 5G on Pixel 7 series and Pixel 6a in India this quarter

Ro, 10 January 2023

Google's new Pixel 7 and 7 Pro smartphones, along with the Pixel 6a released earlier last year still don't have 5G support in India, even though they are officially sold there. In Google's defense, Apple only recently updated its 5G-capable phones to support India's network and so did Samsung. Still, the search giant is falling a bit behind schedule.

In an official statement sent out to us, Google assures that a 5G-enabling OTA update is coming sometime in Q1 2023. The initial timeline for this was December, but Google clearly missed it.

Google to enable 5G on its PIxel 7 series and Pixel 6a in India next year

In the statement, the company says that it's working closely with Indian carriers to enable the next-generation connectivity and comply with the local regulations and standards. Xiaomi is also working on an update as it has quite a few 5G-capable handsets in India.


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Reader comments

  • Gorth
  • 06 Feb 2023
  • 3nv

This whole thing is a joke, custom ROMs few years old cupport VoLTE, and 5G without any carrier "certifications". This is intentionally cripling with exuses that manufacturer doesn't sell phone in that country and it wasn't verifi...

  • Arun
  • 13 Jan 2023
  • 7k3

There was a huge sale season through Amazon and Flipkart where the device is advertised as 5G, but actually the phone doesn't support it so far, which I think is a clear case intentional cheating!

because the manufacturers don't bother to turn it off, which is bad. a 5g enabled phone in a place where there is so little 5g will waste battery trying to connect to a 5g tower, whereas one without 5g will just stay connected to a 4g tower.

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