5G service by 2020
The government formed a high-level committee on Tuesday to give advice on starting the 5G service by 2020. With this technology, the speed of wireless broadband will be around 10,000 mbps in urban areas and 1,000 mbps in rural areas.Telecom Minister Manoj Sinha gave this information on Tuesday. The government is contemplating to make a fund of Rs 500 crore under an effort to facilitate research and development activities to start 5G services.
Sinha said, "We have constituted a high level 5G committee which will work with 5G approach, mission and goals. When in the world in 2020 5G
Technology will be applicable, I believe that India will stand with them.
Telecom Minister announced to set up a high level 5G India 2020 platform. It will include telecom secretary Aruna Sundarajan, IT secretary Ajay Kumar Sahni and science and technology secretary Ashutosh Sharma and experts from the technology sector.
Sinha said that the country could not fully demonstrate its potential in 3G and 4G technologies, but now the government wants India to actively contribute to the development of 5G standards and products.
They said, we will try to develop competitive products globally and manufacture it here. Our goal is to achieve 50 percent of Indian market and 10 percent global market share in the next 5 to 7 years.
Sinha said that under the 5G technology, the government aims to provide 10,000 megabytes per second (Mbps) in urban areas and 1000 Mbps in rural areas.
Officials said that the government is contemplating to create a fund of 500 crore rupees for financing 5G activities. This fund will mainly be for research and product development.
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