BSNL to upgrade all towers to 5G in 6-8 months: Scindia

STATE-RUN TELECOM OPERATOR Bharat Sanchar Nigam (BSNL) will upgrade all its 4G towers to 5G within the next six to eight months, as part of India’s broader push to develop a homegrown telecom ecosystem, Union communications minister Jyotiraditya Scindia said.

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Speaking at the fourth Kau-tilya Economic Conclave here, Scindia said BSNL's fully indigenous 4G stack— developed by C-DOT, Tejas Networks and Tata Consultancy Services — has placed India among a select group of five countries capable of delivering an end-to-end homegrown telecom solution.

“When BSNL advanced down the route of executing on 4G, there was a difficult decision to make. The easy path was to buy equipment from foreign vendors which are only four in the world; the difficult path was to invent our own 4G stack,’ the minister said.