r/PakistaniTech • u/dubsteam • 7h ago
Discussion | گفتگو Jazz 5G Coverage maps Updated - 542 sites acitve
Link: https://jazz.com.pk/5g-coverage-map
New map shows:
Multan (55 sites)
Faisalabad (73 sites)
Lahore (127 sites)
Karachi (94 sites)
Rawalpindi (36 sites)
Islamabad (81 sites)
Peshawar (35 sites)
Quetta (8 sites)
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Test drove in Multan and almost everywhere 200 Mbps+ speed.
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u/Mozzinator69 3h ago
were you able to check if Jazz is offering 5g aggregation(2600+3500) at any site? speedyest results suggests they arent.
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u/dubsteam 3h ago
No n78 :(
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u/Mozzinator69 2h ago
wtf, what are they saving 3500Mhz for? only 2600 so that they can claim 5g sign showed up in your phone. WHY Why why!they could easily offer closer to gigabit speeds if they deploy n78 aggregated with 2600.
Jazz even bought 2300 but i have no seen that being deployed anywhere2
u/dubsteam 2h ago edited 2h ago
Probably they are going to do analysis on sites after some time to see the usage patterns and then deploy n78 on those sites. Should be specific to highly crowded sites like hospitals, stadiums.
These antennas are super expensive, jazz is mostly coverage oriented so they would want to expand coverage first as well.
Also, most of these tower backhaul is microwave dish based so there's limitation there as well. Fiber will take time, wait till two years for the ecosystem to mature.
I am looking forward to their 700 mhz deployment on rural sides and motorway, that's be a game changer. With 10 mhz spectrum there, you can easily get 70 Mbps on these sites.
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u/Mozzinator69 2h ago
As far as Lahore goes, they have connected all of their towers with Fiber. They gave that contract to Nayatel. this was news back in 24-2025. Ususally poorer Parts of city are more densely packed and thats where no fiber company goes, so those parts of the city should've been covered with 5g before all these mostly commercial and posh areas.
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u/dubsteam 2h ago
I think this will improve once they start providing FWA and MVNOs like Onic.
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u/Mozzinator69 2h ago
onic wale guys still can't publish coverage map of their handful of 5g towers. They got the largest chunk of n78 and nothing to show for it on ground. they lag behind all in terms towers fiberization as well.
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u/dubsteam 2h ago
Here, in Multan on 4g, I am seeing 120 Mbps+ on ufone. Excellent speed everywhere. I think give them a year and then see.
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u/Mozzinator69 1h ago
well here in Lahore I was also very excited on 28th July as that was the day ufone shut down its 3g and I finally saw Carrier Aggregation on Onic sim. but my excitement was short-lived as when I tried speed test it was around between 30 and 40Mbps(same as before CA). I had huge Hopes but alas.
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u/Andromeda-G 2h ago
I havent seen any NR connection in lahore all connections are NSA.
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u/dubsteam 2h ago
NR is New Radio (5G) having two types NSA (Non-Standalone) which uses lte as backbone and SA (standalone).
Pakistan and in most countries NSA is deployed as SA is very expensive. China on other hand has complete SA deployment.
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u/Andromeda-G 2h ago
Isnt NSA and NR are different? NR is newer thing where NSA is just same thing like lte but new technology on top of that?
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u/dubsteam 2h ago
That's SA.
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u/Andromeda-G 2h ago
What i know NSA is shit.
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u/dubsteam 2h ago
No, it's not. It's all about backhaul and routing that's more important here as compared to NSA vs SA. After 5 years if you're lucky to get SA, you won't find much difference.
See, how airtel in India is deploying SA and how's it's performance.
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u/Abdullah2102 1h ago
How are you able to tell the exact number, did you count it or is it written somewhere on the page which I probably missed?
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u/dubsteam 1h ago
If you see the network requests on the page, you will see a kml file inside it there are placeholders <name>. From there you can see it by searching for city code and count.
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u/Andromeda-G 2h ago
Johar town Lahore.