DoT Invites Huawei for Conducting 5G Trials in India

Chinese smartphone and telecom gear maker, Huawei, was in a tough spot a month ago as a report revealed the Department of Telecommunications (DoT) is barring the company from testing 5G in India. However, Huawei can now be relieved as it received an official invitation from the DoT for conducting 5G trials in the sub-continent. Huawei will now be part of other companies who will be conducting the tests for 5G in India. “We have received official invitation from the Department of Telecom (DoT) on September 27. We have submitted our proposal and now waiting for reply from the department,” Huawei India CEO Jay Chen told PTI.

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DoT Already Approached Nokia, Samsung, Cisco for 5G Development

DoT has already approached Ericsson, Nokia, Samsung, Cisco and NEC for development of 5G applications and running trials on the suggestion of Stanford University Professor Emeritus Arogyaswami J Paulraj. Paulraj is a member of the 5G panel that recently suggested spectrum roadmap for the technology.

“We have been informed that DoT has set up a committee to decide on zones for trials. The government intends to allocate 100 megahertz spectrum for 5G trials. Huawei has shown interest in running a trial in Delhi and one more city. We also want to engage with state governments,” Chen said.

Huawei Already Conducted 5G Trials in India With Bharti Airtel

Early this year, Huawei conducted 5G trials in the laboratory with Bharti Airtel in India where it achieved a broadband speed of more than 3 Gbps in 3.5 GHz spectrum band. Chen said Huawei is focussing on fixed wireless access, enhanced mobile broadband, WTTX, which is delivering fibre quality broadband in wireless mode, and ultra high definition video transfer.