INDIA ON SATURDAY transitioned from 4G to 5G technology with the launch of the service in select cities by Prime Minister Narendra Modi.
Mukesh Ambani, Sunil Bharti Mittal and Kumar Mangalam Birla, leaders of the top three telecom operators - Jio, Bharti Airtel and Vodafone Idea, respectively-demonstrated to the PM one potential use case each of this technology.
Bharti Airtel scored over Jio by becoming the first operator to launch the services in eight cities Delhi, Mumbai, Varanasi, Bengaluru, Chennai, Hyderabad, Nagpur and Siliguri. Over the next year and a half, the company promises to cover the entire country.
While Saturday's launch means going live with the technology, subscribers can avail the services only when the company announces retail and tariff plans.
Jio said its services will commence from Diwali and cover the whole of India by December 2023. Vodafone Idea did not give any timeline but said it will soon begin the 5G rollout journey.
"5G marks the dawn of a new era and presents a sea of opportunities," Modi said, inaugurating the service at the India Mobile Congress.
The PM added, "India may not have benefitted from the first three industrial revolutions, but will not only take full benefit of the fourth industrial revolution, it will also lead it." The Prime Minister said his government's vision for Digital India was founded on four pillars the cost of devices, digital connectivity, data cost and a digital-first approach.
This approach has led to mobilemanufacturing units in the country increasing from just two in 2014 to over 200 now, bringing down the cost of handsets, he said. Modi underlined the fact that in India's data tariffs are the lowest in the worldfrom 300 per GB in 2014, to less than 10 per GB at present.
This story is from the October 02, 2022 edition of Financial Express Mumbai.
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