Government expects indigenous 5G technology to be rolled out by August 2022

While addressing World Summit of Information Society (WSIS) 2022 event, Devusinh Chauhan, Minister of State for Telecommunications, mentioned that the government expects to roll out indigenously developed 5G technology by August 2022. Meanwhile, as per the minister, the government is also launching a research and development (R&D) fund for funding development of telecom technology.

Besides, India has developed an indigenous 4G stack wherein 4G Core and radio access networks (RAN) are designed and tested in India. This helps the operators to choose any vendor, reduces the cost and enables easier expansions.

Meanwhile, Tata Consultancy Services (TCS) and the Centre for Development of Telematics (C-DoT) are engaged in developing 5G technology indigenously which is likely to be deployed on the BSNL network.