Fast tracking 5G

Leaders from the Telecom sector come together to speak about the speeding up of 5G in India

- Pradeep Chakraborty, Dr Archana Verma and Rajiv Pathak

Voice&Data held an event on Fast Tracking 5G on 17th of September 2019 in New Delhi. Leaders from the telecom sector were present at the event. Pradeep Gupta, CMD, Cybermedia welcomed the guests.

At the event on 5G evolution in India, Sukanta Dey, Strategic Advisor & Group COO, Infomo Global, gave the opening address. Keynote speakers were Aruna Sundararajan, Former Secretary, DoT, Government of India; Rajan Mathews, Director General, COAI and Jitendra Singh, Senior Director, Government Affairs, India & South Asia, Qualcomm India. The panels were titled “ The Operator Excitement,” 5G Ecosystem Enablers and “ Tech Confluence of Telecom & Cloud and Case Studies.”

Building the 5G Ecosystem Worldwide

Sukanta Dey, Strategic Advisor and Group COO, Informo Global and former Emerging Business President, Tata Teleservices, del ivered the introductory keynote titled Building the 5G ecosystem worldwide. He said that the number of mobile users and their demand for data is rising exponentially. Hence, 5G is the answer, as it must handle far more traffic at much higher speeds than the base stations that make up today’s cellular networks. With 5G, users should be able to download a HD film in under a second (a task that could take 10 minutes on 4G LTE).

5G networks will drive the development of new technologies in the fourth industrial revolution or Industry 4.0, such as autonomous vehicles, virtual reality and IoT, robotics, etc.