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The top three telcos in India are now looking to approach DoT seeking deadline extension required to submit their proposals for conducting 5G field trials. The deadline to submit the proposal was January 10, but telcos did not come up with their proposals which will ultimately result in the delay of 5G trials. Reliance Jio, Vodafone Idea Limited and Bharti Airtel will seek more time from the telecom department for submitting their proposals, according to a new ET Telecom report. The Cellular Operators Association of India (COAI), which represents the telecom operators, will likely write a letter to DoT requesting an extension.
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5G Field Trials Might Be Delayed in India
As expected, we may not see telcos launching a 5G network in at least one circle in 2020. On December 31, the telecom department or DoT asked telcos to come up with their proposal for conducting 5G trials in the country. And the DoT gave a deadline of just ten days (January 10). As the deadline is already here, telcos are now looking to seek deadline extension from DoT. “There is a lot of documentation and details required to be submitted to the telecom department, which is not possible by January 10,” a senior executive said to ET Telecom.
Furthermore, the report also says the COAI will write a formal letter to DoT this week seeking a deadline extension. That said, COAI and the telcos did not yet fix the deadline they will seeking from the DoT. Since it requires a lot of paperwork, we are expecting COAI to look for at least six weeks of the deadline to submit the proposals.
