Andrew Bonwick
Vice President of Product Development at Relm Insurance
Madhav Sheth
CEO of Ai+ Smartphone
Stephen Rose
CEO Render Networks


India’s 5G rollout is super impressive because of many reasons. 5G started rolling out in the country in the first week of October 2022 and Bharti Airtel is the first telco to launch 5G in India. Since then, the Indian telecom operators have covered close to 400 cities and towns in the country with their 5G networks. The speed at which 5G is being rolled out in India has also impressed the government. Indian telcos have surpassed the 5G rollout goals of the government by a huge margin.
The whole world is witnessing what India is doing with 5G. While India wasn’t the first to roll out 5G, it would definitely be the country to cover the entire geographical landscape with 5G faster than other nations. What has really helped the telcos is proper planning and then help from the government to set up infrastructure at a fast pace.
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The government has been actively simplifying the policies and reducing problems for the telcos and the IPs (infrastructure providers) in obtaining RoW (right of way) permissions from the state governments to lay fibre and set up infra to boost 5G.
Reliance Jio and Airtel have kept similar goals of covering India with 5G. Jio has targeted the end of 2023, while Airtel has targeted the end of March 2024 to bring its 5G to every part of India.