Tata Comm Renews Private 5G Push as Govt Evaluates Demand

While the firm is gearing up to play a bigger role in enterprise 5G, it is also managing near-term pressures

- Jatin Grover

Nearly three years after first approaching the government for direct spectrum allotment, Tata Communications has renewed its push to get the airwaves for private 5G networks.

"Our representation is that for private 5G, the rules need to be different...we cannot have the same rule of spectrum rollout obligation," Amur Lakshminarayanan, the company's managing director and chief executive officer, told Mint. Unlike telecom operators who serve the broader public with 5G, private networks are targeted to a customer site, and companies cannot have telecom operator-like spectrum rollout obligations, he said.