6G rollout hinges on full 5G Adoption: Manoj Kumar Singh

While India has made significant progress in rolling out 5G services, the next generation technology 6G, will only make sense when 5G use cases are fully saturated and monetised, said Manoj Kumar Singh, Director General, Digital Networks.

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On the sidelines of India Mobile Congress (IMC) 2025 on the future of 6G rollout, Singh said that the country already has a strong base of users for 5G services."As the data speak that we have more than 65 million users for 5G. So it is not a question of 5G availability, but the question is the utilisation of 5G which we normally say the use cases," he said.He noted that the real gap lies not in the availability of the technology, but in understanding and leveraging its full potential."Where there is a gap, understanding the capability of the 5G is a gap. The gap is not the availability of the 5G. So that's the way the whole focus has to be towards the monetisation and modernisation which will happen when there are multiple use cases," Singh explained.He further added that once 5G use cases are completely developed and monetised, they will pave the way for 6G.