New Delhi:
Prime Minister Narendra Modi will launch the highly anticipated 5G services in India on October 1, 2022, an official release reported on Friday.
According to the release, 5G, which will be launched by the Prime Minister in selected cities, will gradually cover the entire country in the coming years.
The cumulative economic impact of 5G on India is estimated to be $450 billion by 2035.
Capable of supporting ultra-fast internet services, the fifth generation or 5G is expected to unleash new economic opportunities and societal benefits and serve as a transformative force for Indian society.
“Prime Minister Narendra Modi will launch 5G services in India on October 1, 2022 and also inaugurate the 6th edition of India Mobile Congress 2022, which will be held in Pragati Maidan, New Delhi from October 1 to 4, 2022,” the release said. .
It is pertinent to mention here that 5G offers speed several times faster than 4G, supports lag-free connectivity and can enable billions of connected devices to share data in real time.
In addition to powering ultra-low latency connections, allowing downloading of full-length, high-quality video in a matter of seconds to a mobile device (even in crowded areas), 5G could enable solutions such as e-health, connected vehicles , more – including immersive augmented reality and metaverse experiences, life-saving use cases and advanced mobile cloud gaming.
“5G can unleash new economic opportunities and societal benefits, making it a transformative force for India’s society. It will help the country overcome the traditional barriers to development, encourage innovations by startups and business ventures and enhance the ‘Digital India “Vision,” according to the official release.
The launch of 5G services in India, the second largest smartphone market in the world after China, follows years of intensive preparation.
India’s largest ever telecom spectrum auction held recently had received a record Rs 1.5 lakh crore in bids, with Mukesh Ambani’s Jio taking home nearly half of all airwaves sold with a bid of Rs 88,078 crore.
Bharti Airtel of telecom mogul Sunil Bharti Mittal made a successful bid of Rs 43,084 crore, while Vodafone Idea Ltd bought spectrum for Rs 18,799 crore.
Gautam Adani’s group, whose participation in the auction was billed by some as another focal point in the rivalry with Ambani, paid Rs 212 crore for 400 MHz. Adani group purchased spectrum in the 26 GHz band, which is suitable for setting up a private network for end-to-end communication.
The auction gathered demand for a robust 5G ecosystem that can meet the use cases of IoT (Internet of Things), M2M (Machine-to-Machine communication), AI (Artificial Intelligence), Edge Computing and robotics.
In August 2022, the Telecom Department amended the Right of Way (RoW) Rules, making the rates for laying cables and erecting towers reasonable and a ceiling on rates for installing 5G small cells and fiber optic cable on street furniture. is solved.
The Department of Telecom, with help from IITs, IISc Bengaluru and SAMEER, has set up a 5G testbed to develop technology in 2018.
In 2020, a 5G hackathon was launched to spark start-ups’ use case devising and prototyping and led to innovative products, the official release said.
Since 2021, an inter-ministerial commission for 5G use cases has been functioning, in coordination with 12 central ministries, which allows the setting up of 5G use-case labs. Consultations have been held with industry to enable the 5G ecosystem to make handsets available.
C-DOT is also developing 5G Radio Access Network (RAN) in collaboration with local industry and start-ups. It has already successfully tested 4G Core in collaboration with TCS and Tejas Networks.
All of these will help answer the Prime Minister’s clarion call on ‘Jai Anusandhan’. All of these efforts are game-changers for the Indian manufacturing and telecom ecosystem, leading to domestic 5G enterprise carrier-grade stacks and innovative impactful 5G use. -cases.” said the release.
The theme of this year’s India Mobile Congress is ‘Encapsulate, Engage and Experience a New Digital Universe’ and the blockbuster telecom event aims to promote new technologies, especially the indigenous ones, so that people can explore the use and applications of 5G. experienced.
The other objectives include promoting local production, fostering cooperation, inspiring inclusive and sustainable development, promoting entrepreneurship and innovation, stimulating foreign and local investment.
The mega event is expected to attract more than 5,000 CXOs and delegates, more than 250 exhibitors, more than 100 start-ups, more than 300 speakers, with an expected attendance of 70,000 attendees and visitors.
A roundtable is also planned at IMC 2022 with state IT ministers to discuss the role of states and union territories in 5G deployment, business opportunities, the need for skills development and to interact with potential start-ups and investors.
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