5G is going to be all over the world, including India very soon. It is the next generation of technology which will support faster and higher connectivity. As we have established in one of our reports earlier, 5G won’t be as harmful as people are speculating it to be. The 5G frequency bands fall under the non-ionising range, which means it is safe to be deployed. While 5G is slowly... Read More
Addressing the nation at the Indian Mobile Congress (IMC) 2020, SK Gupta, Secretary of the Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (Trai) said that the telecom department needs to ensure adequate availability of 5G spectrum at an affordable price for the telcos. This is so that Indian telecom service providers (TSPs) can test 5G for India specific use cases as soon as possible. Gupta said that he is aware of the... Read More
During the Indian Mobile Congress (IMC) event, 2020, Bharat Kumar Jog, an official from the Department of Telecommunications (DoT), said that India’s share of economic value worldwide when it comes to 5G will be close to $1 trillion by 2035. But for that, he highlighted, the industry must be availed with 5G spectrum or airwaves at an affordable price. He asked the government to act fast and expedite the process... Read More
Managing Director of Vodafone Idea (Vi), Ravinder Takkar at the Indian Mobile Congress (IMC), 2020, said that the telco lost multiple opportunities of 5G use cases and new partnerships just because of the existing tariffs and the price that government is charging on the spectrum. Adding to the price on the spectrum, its availability is also a major problem. Takkar highlighted that Vi has invested around $30 billion in India... Read More
Gopal Vittal, CEO of Bharti Airtel South Asia on Tuesday said that India needs to adopt 5G standards which are accepted globally. Going for 5G standards sourced locally is only going to result in India being locked out of the global ecosystem of technology. It is not the first time he has expressed this thought. Earlier as well, Vittal has expressed that Jio backing the 5G standards set by the... Read More
Sunil Bharti Mittal, Founder of Bharti Airtel recently addressed the nation in the Indian Mobile Congress (IMC) and said that India would be 5G ready in the next two to three years. This is because at the moment, in the Indian landscape, pricing of the spectrum and the equipment of 5G is too high and unfeasible for the industry. But he said that the pricing of the equipment would soon... Read More
Mr Mukesh Ambani recently addressed the nation at the Indian Mobile Congress (IMC) and expressed four important points that India needs to focus on. He said that in 2020, while everyone worked from home, learned and taught from home, India thrived online. Ambani also stressed on the fact that India will become a $5 trillion economy very soon and prove the cynics wrong. He focused his attention on four points... Read More
5G connectivity would be a positive boost for the Indian telecom industry believes Rajen Vagadia, Vice President and President of Qualcomm and SAARC. India stands to gain a lot from 5G once it arrives in the country. This is because India has a huge market that needs a massive upgrade. Thus the government of the country can release the appropriate amount of spectrum at affordable prices for the telecom operators... Read More
A lot of people are concerned about the use of 5G technology for connectivity. This is because a common presumption about 5G is that it produces harmful radiations which kill birds and also lead to people being diagnosed with cancer. To understand how this technology will actually affect us, first, let’s see how it is different from previous cellular technologies. With 5G, the networks would depend on radio waves to... Read More
Qualcomm Technologies, Nokia and telecom operator Elisa today announced that they have achieved 8 Gbps speeds on a commercial 5G network in Finland. It is the first time we are seeing 8 Gbps speeds on a 5G network with two 5G mmWave devices connected simultaneously. The three vendors conducted this test at Elisa's store in Helsinki, Finland. Qualcomm Technologies said that new network would support a range of new low-latency,... Read More
The Indian government is yet to make a final decision on the growing concerns of allowing Chinese vendors to be part of 5G field trials in the country. Union Home Secretary Ajay Kumar Bhalla, however, stated that the "penetration of the neighbouring country into the existing network is too extensive." Indian telecom operators relied heavily on Chinese telecom gear makers like Huawei and ZTE. In recent times, we have seen... Read More
5G sans Fiberisation—Possible? Telecom operators have realised that Fiberisation is the pivot for riding the 5G or emerging technologies bandwagon. If from 2G to 4G was about rationalising capacity by telcos, 5G is more about fibre. Fiberisation will surely meet the present requirement of bandwidth and future technologies. However, India has about 25-30% level of Fiberisation versus 70% that is required for 5G technology rollout. According to industry experts, Fiberisation... Read More
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