India to take indigenously-developed 5G, 4G to world next year: Vaishnaw – Times of India

Indigenously-developed 5G and 4G telecom technology stack will be rolled out in the country this year, minister for railways, communications, electronics & information technology Ashwini Vaishnaw said. While speaking at the Business 20 (B20) India inception meeting, the official G20 dialogue forum with the global business community, Vaishnaw said that made-in-India 4G and 5G platform will be offered to the world from next year. The minister said that so far only five countries in the world have end-to-end 4G-5G telecom technology stack but now with the public-private partnership, India has developed its own technology which has been tested to handle 10 million simultaneous calls.
“Our private and public partnership approach has given us a solution where the core was developed, invested by the public sector, public funds, and everything else sitting on it comes from the private partners. In this entire 2023, we will be rolling it out on about 50,000 to 70,000, towers, sites and then in 2024 will be offering it to the world,” Vaishnaw said.

‘Made in India’ 5G gear to be commercially available by March
Last year, a top government official had told Economic Times (ET) that Full-fledged indigenously designed and developed fifth generation (5G) equipment that includes core and radio network components could be commercially available by March next year.
The move could pitch India as a major telecom technology player, taking on companies from the likes of the US, Finland, Sweden and Korea. “The processes will take an extra three to four months. So, I potentially feel that by March next year, it (C-DoT) will be in a position to actually commercialise both radio and core equipment,” K Rajaraman, secretary, Department of Telecommunications (DoT) told ET.