Indigenous 4G and 5G technology will be introduced in India this year, Telecom Minister Ashwini Vaishnav told the plan.
New Delhi, Tech Desk. Reliance Jio and Bharti Airtel are continuously expanding 5G service in the country. But BSNL has not yet launched 4G service along with 5G. Union Telecom Minister Ashwini Vaishnav always keeps giving updates on BSNL’s 4G and 5G service. The Telecom Minister has already announced that now indigenous 4G and 5G technology will be introduced in the country.
What did the Telecom Minister say now
Telecom Minister Ashwini Vaishnav informed about the same at B20 (The Business 20), the official G20 dialogue forum with the global business community. Ashwini Vaishnav said that indigenously developed 5G and 4G telecom technology stack will be introduced this year. After which this platform will be introduced to the world from next year. He said that only five countries in the whole world have end-to-end 4G-5G telecom technology stack. But now India has developed its own technology with public private partnership. Through this, testing is being done to handle 10 million calls simultaneously.
Ashwini Vaishnav said ‘Our private and public partnership approach has given us a solution where the core was developed, invested in by the public sector, public money, and everything else comes from private partners. “We will roll out around 50,000 to 70,000 towers, sites in 2023 and then present it to the world in 2024,” Vaishnav said.
Along with this, the minister also elaborated on four broad approaches directed towards economic management, digital economy, regulation in digital economy and development of new technology. Significantly, they have been adopted by India under the leadership of Prime Minister Narendra Modi to help solve some serious problems.
Minister Ashwini Vaishnav said that ‘Prime Minister has adopted a different approach for digitization where India has created a digital ecosystem in which no big technology has monopoly. Its example will be given everywhere in the world.
Information about digital transactions was also given
Ashwini Vaishnav also said that the digital payment transactions in India in the month of December on an annual basis stand at USD 1.5 trillion. This is more than many other countries in the world. He said that ‘Prime Minister Narendra Modi has adopted an approach to use public money to build a strong platform and let everyone join that platform’.
