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Tanay Singh Thakur January 28th, 2022 11:59 AM 3 COMMENTS

TSDSI Asked TEC Under DoT to Stop 5Gi Adoption

The Telecommunications Standards Development Society of India (TSDSI) has asked the Telecommunication Engineering Center (TEC) to not go ahead with the 5Gi (India’s indigenous 5G standard) adoption as the national standard 5G technology. TEC is the department that operates under the Department of Telecommunications (DoT). Private companies, as well as telecom bodies, were against the adoption of the 5Gi standard in India. According to an ET Telecom report, TSDSI has... Read More

Ria Lakshman December 28th, 2021 10:39 AM 2 COMMENTS

India Won’t be Locked Out of Global 5G, 5Gi Merger with 3GPP Confirmed

At the recently concluded TSG Radio Access Network (TSG RAN) 3GPP Plenary Meeting, 3GPP decided to merge India’s own 5th generation standard 5Gi with 3GPP’s global 5G standard. 3GPP and TSDSI also set a plan of action and milestones to allow the merger of 5Gi into 5G. India gained approval from the International Telecommunications Union (ITU) for the country’s own standards on 5G technology in August 2021. Dubbed as 5Gi... Read More

Tanay Singh Thakur December 13th, 2021 11:59 AM 0 COMMENTS

5Gi and 3GPP 5G Standards to be Merged

The 5Gi standard developed by the Telecommunications Standards Development Society, India (TSDSI) and the 5G standard of 3GPP will be merged under a compromised formula. An ET Telecom report citing a person familiar with the matter said that in a meeting that took place last week, a compromise agreement had been formed where both 5Gi and 5G from 3GPP will be merged. The arrangement will be going ahead to the... Read More

Tanay Singh Thakur December 2nd, 2021 1:22 PM 0 COMMENTS

Vodafone Idea Following 3GPP Standard for 5G Core Network

When it comes to 5G, one of the biggest things that will be talked about is network security. To keep its 5G networks secure whenever it launches commercially, Vodafone Idea (Vi) is following the 3GPP standard. Jagbir Singh, Chief Technology Officer (CTO), Vodafone Idea said that Vi is following the 3GPP standard for 5G’s core network along with the firewalls. For 5Gi, Singh said that Vi is working with a... Read More

Tanay Singh Thakur November 5th, 2021 12:13 AM 0 COMMENTS

Airtel, Vi and Jio Again Get Vocal About 5Gi

All of the private telecom operators in India, including Reliance Jio, Vodafone Idea, and Bharti Airtel, have said that 5Gi should be made a part of 3GPP. The telcos want the Indian government to not lose focus from 3GPP because it would ensure economies of scale. According to an ET Telecom report, the Cellular Operators Association of India (COAI), the representative body of the private Indian Telecom operators, said that... Read More

Tanay Singh Thakur November 2nd, 2021 11:57 AM 7 COMMENTS

5Gi Is What Indian Telcos Should Go Ahead With Believes Government

The Indian government is of the opinion that the telecom operators in the country should go ahead with the 5Gi standard developed by the TSDSI. However, the telcos have vocally opposed the opinion of the government in the past. This is because the 5Gi standard would add to the cost of the network deployment and will also slow down network rollout times. Further, Indians might also see increased prices of... Read More

Tanay Singh Thakur October 25th, 2021 10:41 AM 1 COMMENTS

India Can Still Lead in the 5G Era

Mukesh Ambani, MD and Chairman, Reliance Industries Limited (RIL), amongst many others, have time and again said that India should lead the fifth revolution that combines both humans and machines in the workplace. To do this, India needs to be ahead of other nations in 5G. Being ahead doesn’t only mean rolling out new technologies faster. Instead, it is all about rolling out technologies that are better, feasible in cost,... Read More

Tanay Singh Thakur September 13th, 2021 9:45 PM 17 COMMENTS

5Gi or 5G, India Still Lacks Clarity

India still doesn’t have much clarity when it comes to the next-generation connectivity networks. All across the globe, countries and governments are going with the 5G standards developed by the 3GPP. But India has had different plans. In order to become self-reliant, TSDSI had developed its own 5G standard, namely 5Gi. Many opine that 5Gi is the right way to go, but then there are many who believe that 5G... Read More

Arpit Sharma August 29th, 2021 2:19 PM 1 COMMENTS

Effect of a 5Gi Mandate Goes Beyond the Telecom Industry

As if the Indian telecom industry was not inundated enough by roadblocks in its development and financial fruitions, the troubles are already on for the coming of 5G as well. Even before the launch of fifth-generation network technology in India, there is a raging debate going on in circles about the kind of standardisation the companies and the government would use for the deployment of 5G network. There is the... Read More

Tanay Singh Thakur August 28th, 2021 6:40 PM 3 COMMENTS

5G In India Should be 3GPP Compliant: International Trade Bodies

In so many words, huge multinational bodies from the UK and the US have asked the Indian government to go with the 5G standards that have been recommended by the 3GPP. India is currently in confusion about which 5G standard it should go with - 5Gi developed by TSDSI or the 3GPP developed 5G standard. The top trade bodies from around the world have urged the Indian government to go... Read More

Tanay Singh Thakur August 27th, 2021 5:30 PM 9 COMMENTS

5G or 5Gi: Here Is What Indian Smartphone Makers Think

Indian smartphone makers are worried about 5Gi becoming the norm of connectivity in the country. According to the smartphone manufacturers, 5Gi would render all the gains that the companies have made so far useless. According to an ET Telecom report, the entire mobile industry will be affected severely if 5Gi is made the standard mode of connectivity in India. Further, it would harm the initiatives of the government to motivate... Read More

Tanay Singh Thakur August 18th, 2021 1:45 PM 13 COMMENTS

Bharti Airtel, Vi Worried About Indian 5Gi Standard

Top telecom operators and vendors, including Bharti Airtel, Vodafone Idea, Ericsson, Nokia, Huawei, Samsung, Qualcomm and more companies, have expressed their fear of India going ahead with the 5Gi standard. For the unaware, India came out with its own 5G standard called 5Gi, which was different from that of the one proposed by the 3GPP. The only thing is, the 5Gi standard isn’t as good as what the Telecommunications Standards... Read More