Andrew Bonwick
Vice President of Product Development at Relm Insurance
Madhav Sheth
CEO of Ai+ Smartphone
Varun Kashyap & Sridevi Reddy
Co-Founders, Zithara.ai
Transforming Indian Offline Retail and Customer Engagement Using AI


5G is becoming a closer reality with every passing day for India. In a world where connectivity is going to be the centre of everything, high-speed connectivity would be big leverage. People need it to do their work efficiently and effectively. Whether you are checking your social media account, opening a website, or streaming videos, slow internet can be very frustrating. When 4G came out initially, people loved it and called it a revolutionary thing for the world. Let’s see what would 5G mean for India.
How is 5G Better than 4G?
Very simply put, 5G is a lot faster than the 4G network. With 5G connectivity, people can get up to 20 Gbps speed with a latency of 1 ms which means it will help with buffering online content faster and easier. While the 4G network can support frequency bands of up to 6GHz, 5G network will be able to support frequency bands of anything between 60GHz and 300GHz. So you are bound to get a better experience while using the internet.
So why would a customer convert to 5G network from his/her existing 4G connectivity? Customers naturally want something which they can get for cheap and provides them with the utility for their money. 5G will cover the connectivity part, but will It be cheap enough for customers to actually be motivated to shift from 4G?
Cost of 5G
It is hard to come up with a definite price range for what 5G would cost in India or in any part of the world. Every country will have their own pricing structure. So talking about the cost of 5G in India, it should be in the lines of what 4G is costing already. Because major telcos of the country would want a majority of their customers to shift to their latest networks. If a lot of people use the 5G network, then even when they are priced low, telcos would be able to recover their cost.